The opportunities and challenges of behavioral field research on misconduct

I Larkin, L Pierce, S Shalvi, A Tenbrunsel - Organizational Behavior and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Research on behavioral misconduct and ethics across many fields has provided important
managerial and policy implications, but has primarily relied on laboratory experiments and …

Managerial short-termism and corporate social performance: The moderating role of external monitoring

SJ Smulowitz, D Cossin, H Lu - Journal of Business Ethics, 2023 - Springer
While commentators have long decried managerial short-termism, the deleterious effects of
managerial short-termism on corporate social performance (CSP), and how to ameliorate …

Executive pay gap and corporate ESG greenwashing: Evidence from China

M Li, Q Chen - International Review of Financial Analysis, 2024 - Elsevier
With the increasing global influence of ESG, the phenomenon of greenwashing is gradually
spreading to the ESG field. Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2011 …

Wrongdoing in publicly listed family-and nonfamily-owned firms: A behavioral perspective

SJ Smulowitz, D Cossin… - … Theory and Practice, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We integrate research on family-owned firms (FOFs) and the Behavioral Theory of the Firm
(BTOF) to study wrongdoing—a specific dimension of corporate social responsibility (CSR) …

Behavioral agency model and corporate social irresponsibility: Uncovering the implication of fairness in CEO compensation

T Jain, R Zaman, M Harjoto - Journal of Management, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Behavioral agency model (BAM) posits that executive risk preferences are influenced by
losses to their current option wealth relative to gains from their prospective option wealth …

More risk-averse or more innovative? The effect of women board membership and aspirations on patent activity

SJ Smulowitz, M Smulowitz, D Cossin - Research Policy, 2025 - Elsevier
Do women directors make firms more risk-averse or more innovative? We examine this
question by predicting and showing that the effect of increasing women directors on the …

Good governance, bad governance: A refinement and application of key governance concepts

SL Mitchell, MD Packard… - International Journal of …, 2023 - inderscienceonline.com
Understanding what makes governance'good'or'bad'has been impeded by construct
ambiguity. Contemporary governance research has struggled to define'governance'and …

Weathering the Risk: How Climate Uncertainty Fuels Corporate Fraud

X Chen, F Wen, J **ao, GG Tian - Journal of Business Ethics, 2024 - Springer
While previous research has primarily focused on the impact of climate risk on corporate
socially responsible behaviors, this study investigates how climate risk may influence …

The High Cost of Cheap Talk: How Disingenuous Ethical Language Can Reflect Agency Costs

SJ Smulowitz, MD Pfarrer, D Cossin… - Journal of …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Does the use of a certain type of ethical language indicate that managers are failing to
behave in a socially responsible manner? Managers are increasingly using language …

Assessing the Ethical Behavior of Accounting Accounts Through the Application of the Tri Kaya Parisudha Philosophy on Equity Sensitivity and Ethical Sensitivity

MS Dewi, KTS Dewi… - International Journal of …, 2021 - ejournal.undiksha.ac.id
The government must pay attention to the ability of its employees because it has
accountability that can develop a sound and well-established reporting system. The …