Collaborative Research: The Extent and Underlying Cause(s) of Corporate Malfeasance in U.S. Corporations

合作研究：美国公司违法行为的程度和根本原因

• 批准号: 0351423
• 负责人: Theresa Morris
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Trinity College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-06-01 至 2007-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0351423&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Extent; Underlying; Cause

Currently there is not research that provides a systematic explanation for U.S. corporate malfeasance and why it has escaped early detection by governmental oversight agencies. The PIs will explore whether changes in regulatory law during the latter half of the 20th century have allowed corporate characteristics to develop that encourage and reward malfeasance. Specifically, the research will investigate whether working malfeasance has been steadily increasing, reaching its maximum in recent years. They will first quantify over time the frequency and kinds of corporate malfeasance by conducting univariate and bivariate analyses of the largest 500 U.S. corporations. Second they will identify the cause(s) of corporate malfeasance. The PIs hypothesize that the emergence of multilayer-subsidiary corporate form and the irregularities it encourages are responsible. Using discrete time event history analysis and Possion regression the PI will be used to test several specific hypotheses. The research is innovative in that it addresses under-investigated aspects of corporations that have great potential importance as the underlying causes of malfeasance. The study also extends beyond previous studies of corporate malfeasance, which disproportionately focused on the contributions of individuals to malfeasance, examined only those social acts that have been identified as a crime, or did not examine the effects of change to the multilayer-subsidiary corporate form. Research findings can contribute to helping us better understand corporate malfeasance and provide evidence-based changes in preventive regulatory policy will become possible. Society as a whole would benefit economically if corporate malfeasance could be substantially reduced or eliminated. The damage done to the U.S. economy and the financial security of individuals as a consequence of recent corporate malfeasance has been enormous. To assure maximal benefit from the proposed studies, the results will be disseminated widely through presentation at meetings, publication in peer reviewed journals, and distribution to relevant governmental regulators. Teaching and learning will be an integral part of the research. For example, the results will be included in the investigators' scholarly and public lectures, and both undergraduate and graduate students will be involved in developing the data. Historically, the numbers of students from underrepresented groups have been disproportionately high in the principal investigator's research programs. The intent is to continue that recruitment approach.

目前还没有研究对美国公司的渎职行为以及为什么它没有被政府监督机构及早发现提供系统的解释。本书将探讨世纪后半叶监管法律的变化是否允许公司特征的发展，鼓励和奖励渎职行为。具体而言，该研究将调查工作渎职是否一直在稳步上升，近年来达到最高点。 他们将首先通过对美国最大的500家公司进行单变量和双变量分析，量化公司渎职的频率和种类。其次，他们将确定公司渎职的原因。 PI假设，多层子公司形式的出现及其鼓励的违规行为是负责任的。使用离散时间事件历史分析和Possion回归，PI将用于检验几个特定假设。这项研究是创新的，因为它解决了调查不足的公司方面，有很大的潜在重要性，作为渎职的根本原因。这项研究还超出了以前对公司渎职行为的研究，以前的研究不成比例地侧重于个人对渎职行为的贡献，只审查了那些被确定为犯罪的社会行为，或者没有审查多层子公司形式变化的影响。研究结果可以帮助我们更好地了解企业的渎职行为，并提供基于证据的预防性监管政策的变化将成为可能。如果公司的不法行为能够大大减少或消除，整个社会将在经济上受益。最近的企业渎职行为对美国经济和个人财务安全造成了巨大损害。为了确保从拟议的研究中获得最大利益，将通过在会议上介绍、在同行评审期刊上发表以及向相关政府监管机构分发等方式广泛传播研究结果。教学和学习将是研究的一个组成部分。例如，研究结果将包括在研究人员的学术和公开讲座中，本科生和研究生都将参与数据的开发。从历史上看，在首席研究员的研究项目中，来自代表性不足群体的学生人数不成比例地高。目的是继续采用这种征聘办法。