Preventing Corporate Misconduct
In this seminar series researchers present their current work on corporate misconduct and how it can be reined in. Corporate misconduct occurs when firms violate
rules or expectations that are legally or socially enforced. Despite stricter regulation and growing awareness, corporate misconduct continues to occur frequently, causing significant costs to society (health or environmental harm, aggressive tax planning/evasion, human rights abuses, financial fraud, and corruption).
The seminar is jointly organized by the FACTS and the Management & Marketing Department, and the Freie Universität Empirical Legal Studies Center (FUELS).
Dates Winter 2024/25:
| Date & Time | Location | Speaker | Topic | Hosted by |
| Jun 27, 2024 | 2:15 - 03:45 PM |
Room 013, Thielallee 73 |
Florian Habermann |
Double Materiality as a Driver of Real Effects: Evidence from the European Union’s Non-Financial Disclosure Directive | FACTS |
| Jan 10, 2025 | 2:15 - 03:45 PM |
Room 013, Thielallee 73 |
Christiane Pott (TU Dortmund) |
Costs of Corporate Sustainability Reporting – The Case of the German Supply Chain Law | FACTS |
| Nov 29, 2024 | 2:15 - 03:45 PM |
Room 013, |
Matthias Sohn (Viadrina Uni. Frankfurt/Oder) |
Narcissism in the Boardroom: Communal and Antagonistic Motives in ESG Reporting Manipulation | FACTS |
| Nov 14, 2024 | 06:00 - 07:30 PM |
Room 013, |
Jill Fisch (University of Pennsylvania) |
Corporate Political Disclosure and Shareholder Voting | FUELS/FACTS |
| Oct 25, 2024 | 2:15 - 03:45 PM | Room 013, Thielallee 73 |
Georg Schneider (Univ. Graz) |
Sustainability Reporting in Supply Chains: Certification vs. Mandatory Reporting Standards and Corporate Governance Regulation | FACTS |
Previous dates:
2024Jun 27, 2024: Don Lange (Arizona State University) - "How Shareholder Litigation Risk Influences Firm Orientation Towards Stakeholders"
Jun 20, 2024: Markus Pohlmann (Universität Heidelberg) - "Organizational Crime and Compliance"
May 30, 2024: Arvid Hoffmann (Adelaide) - "Managerial Antecedents of Product Safety Problems"
May 8, 2024: Wenming Xu (China University of Political Science and Law) - "Uncovering the Hidden Civil Litigations Against Securities Informational Misconducts: An Empirical Evidence from the Announcements Made by Listed Companies in China"
Apr 26, 2024: Thorsten Sellhorn (LMU München) - "Climate disclosure in financial statements"
Feb 15, 2024: Katrin Hummel (WU Wien) - "Does mandatory sustainability reporting decrease loan costs?"
Feb 7, 2024: Klaus Ulrich Schmolke (Joh. Gutenberg Univ. Mainz) - "Whistleblowing: Incentives and Situational Determinants"
Jan 25, 2024: Alexander Morell (Goehte Universität Frankfurt) - "Should cartel sanctions be reduced in case the offender runs a corporate compliance program?"
Jan 18, 2024: C. Miguel Brendl (Universität Basel) und Jana Möller-Herm (Freie Universität Berlin) - "After a firm’s misconduct: Emotional counterconditioning of firm attitudes"
Jan 12, 2024: Andrzej Uhl (Cambridge) - "Introducing a criminological bribery game. An experimental research design for the analytic study of corrupt decision-making"
Jan 11, 2024: Tanusree Jain (Copenhagen Business School) - "A corporate governance view of corporate irresponsibility"
2023Dec 14, 2023: Vivek Astvansh (McGill University Montreal) - "Hedge Fund Activism, Managerial Myopia, and Product Issues"
Nov 24, 2023: Roger Silvers (University of Utah) - "Institutional mobility in global capital markets"
Nov 3, 2023: Michael Leyer (Philipps-Universität Marburg) - "Behavioral Process Mining"
July 20, 2023: Jonas Heese (Harvard Business School) - "Does Information Technology Reduce Corporate Misconduct?"
July 13, 2023: Max Braun (FU Berlin) - "CEO Rationalization of Corporate Misconduct"
July 6, 2023: Arvid Hoffmann (Adelaide University) - "Shareholder Litigation Risk and Product Recalls"
June 29, 2023: Aharon Cohen-Mohliver (London Business School) - "Dominant deceptions: explaining the tenacity of deceit in entrepreneurial ventures"
June 22, 2023: Alexander Edeling (KU Leuven) - "When is Competition Really Healthy? Analyzing the Impact of the Firm’s
Competitive Situation on Unethical Firm Behavior"
June 15, 2023: Thomas Roulet (University of Cambridge) - "How pirates Became Privateers: The Legitimiation of Misbehaving Actors by Social Control Agents"
June 8, 2023: Leonard Hoeft (Humboldt Universität) - "Law and Reputation"
May 25, 2023: Vincent A. Traag (Leiden University) - "Causal foundations of bias, disparity and fairness"
May 19, 2023: Hoa Briscoe-Tran (Ohio State University) - "Do Employees Have Useful Information About Firms’ ESG Practices?"
Feb 14, 2023: Alexander Mafael (Stockholm School of Economics) - "Managing Product Recall Effectiveness"
Feb 7, 2023: Jonathan Bundy (Arizona State University) - "No Room for Redemption: Toward an Understanding of Cancellation as a Social Organizational Phenomenon"
Jan 27, 2023: Frank Schiemann (Universität Bamberg) - "Materiality Indications as a Double-Edged Sword: Real Effects of Sustainability Disclosure Standards"
Jan 17, 2023: Tanusree Jain (Copenhagen Business School) - "Behavioral Agency Theory and Corporate Social Irresponsibility"
2022
Dec 9, 2022: Martin Nienhaus (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) - "How to Select Targets for investigations? Evidence from Financial Reporting Enforcement"
Nov 15, 2022: Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar (COLMAN, Rishon LeTsiyon, Israel) - "Gender and Corporate Crime: Do Women on the Board of Directors Reduce Corporate Bad Behavior?"
Jul 12, 2022: Tanusree Jain (Copenhagen Business School) - "A Governance Perspective to Corporate Irresponsibility"
Apr 22, 2022: Aneesh Raghunandan (London School of Economics) - "Gender Pay Gap Misreporting"
Feb 18, 2022: Carsten Momsen (FU Berlin) & Jacqueline E. Ross (University of Illinois College of Law) - "Hinweisgeber und ihre Anwälte als Ermittler – ein Vergleich der Rolle des Whistleblowings im deutschen und amerikanischen Recht"
2021
Jun 8, 2021: Max Braun (FU Berlin) - "A Meta-Analysis on Corporate Wrongdoing"
Apr 29, 2021: Jana Möller (FU Berlin) & Ilias Danatzis (King’s College London) - "Stopping the Spread: The Role of Blame Attributions and Service Provider Measures in Curbing C2C Misbehavior Contagion"
2020
Nov 18, 2020: Vera Shikhelman (Haifa University) - "Self Representation in Israeli Traffic Courts"
Jan 10, 2020: Nitzan Shilon (Peking University) - "Opportunistic Stock Buybacks as an Executive Compensation Problem"
2019
Dec 12, 2019: Shay Lavie (Tel Aviv University) - "Those Who Tan and Those Who Don’t: A Natural Experiment on Colorism"
Oct 29, 2019: Stoyan Sgoure (ESSEC Paris) & Erik Aadland (BI School of Management Oslo) - "Burning the bridges: Authenticity, innovation and transgression in Norwegian black metal"
May 03, 2019: Amir Amel-Zadeh (Oxford University) - "The Link between Sustainability and Shareholder Value and its Implications for Corporate Reporting: Evidence from the Field"
2018
Oct 19, 2018: Annalisa Prencipe (Bocconi Mailand) - "What’s in a Name? Eponymous Private Firms and Financial Reporting Quality"
Jul 10, 2018: Max Braun (FU Berlin) & Thomas Mellewigt (FU Berlin) - "When Do Women on Corporate Boards Lead to More Financial Misrepresentation?"
Jan 19, 2018: Leslie Robinson (Dartmouth College) - "Negotiated Tax Heavens"