The College of Business will hold the first Bi-Annal International Compensation, Motivation, and Performance Conference (ICoMP) for two days from January 8th (Thursday) to 9th (Friday), 2026. ICoMP is an international academic conference focusing on compensation, motivation, and performance research, and is a global conference co-hosted by Sungkyunkwan University (Korea), Cornell University (USA), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). The three organizations will tour every two years, and Sungkyunkwan University will take a leading role as the venue for the first event.

This ICoMP was prepared to discuss in-depth interdisciplinary research on organizational performance and human resource management. The core theme of reward and motivation is a research area closely connected to various fields such as economics, sociology, and strategic management as well as business administration, where global scholars will gather to share the latest research results and empirical, theoretical, and case-based studies in multiple layers.

In particular, a large number of world-class scholars will participate in this conference. Global leading researchers, including Claudine Gartenberg of Wharton School, Matthew Lee of Harvard Kennedy School, and Ben Rissing of Cornell University, will attend as speakers and presenters to lead in-depth discussions on compensation, organizational motivation, and performance management. Their participation is expected to further strengthen Sungkyunkwan University's international research status.

Through this conference, Sungkyunkwan University expects various effects such as ▲ Strengthening international research networks with leading universities in the world ▲ Providing a venue for interdisciplinary convergence research ▲ Increasing research competitiveness of the school's researchers in international journals ▲ Strengthening students' capacity to operate international academic events. In particular, the educational impact is expected to be significant as graduate and undergraduate students participate in the preparation and operation of the conference together to gain experience in planning actual academic events and opportunities to exchange with global researchers.

"ICoMP will serve as an important hub for connecting various adjacent disciplines as well as the field of personnel and organization in business administration," said Professor Park Tae-yoon (major of management), who is the presenter and moderator of the international academic conference. "As the first event is held at our school, we will further solidify the foundation of global research exchanges and use it as an opportunity to strengthen academic leadership."