The Ethics and Legal Studies faculty pursue issues connected to the relationship between social norms, both ethical and legal, and business. Faculty research is concentrated in several broad areas: business ethics, business law, negotiation, law and philosophy, and international ethical and legal issues.
Representative Publications
Names in bold type indicate authors who were Wharton doctoral students at the time of publication.
Thomas Donaldson, "The Transatlantic Paradox: How outdated concepts confuse the American/European debate about corporate governance," in the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, Ed: Crane, A.; McWilliams, A., Matten, D; Moon, J.; and Siegel, D. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 1-15, 2007.
Nien-hê Hsieh, "Managers, Workers, and Authority," Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 71, no. 4, pp: 347-357, 2007.
Katerina Glac and J. Cantwell. "TNCs, locational clustering and the process of economic development," in L. Cuyvers and F. De Beule (Eds.), Transnational Corporations and Economic Development: From Internationalisation to Globalisation, London: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2006.
Waheed Hussain, "The Ethical Dimension of the Class Structure," Social Theory and Practice, vol. 33, no. 2, April 2007
William S. Laufer, Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability, Chicago, Ill.: University Chicago Press, 2006, 288 pages.
Eric W. Orts with Alan Strudler, "The Ethical and Environmental Limits of Stakeholder Theory," Business Ethics Quarterly, 2002.
Diana C. Robertson with John Snarey, Opal Ousley, Keith Harenski, F. DuBois Bowman, Rick Gilkey, and Clinton Kilts, "The Neural Processing of Moral Sensitivity to Issues of Justice and Care," Neuropsychologia, 45, 2007, 755-766.
Alan Strudler, "The Moral Problem in Insider Trading," in Beauchamp and Brenkert eds., Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, 2007.
J. Cantwell, K. Glac and R. Harding. "The internationalization of R&D — the Swiss case," Management International Review, Vol. 44, Special Issue No. 3, 2004, pp. 57-82.