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

目前还没有研究对美国企业的不法行为提供系统的解释，以及为什么它没有被政府监管机构早期发现。pi将探讨20世纪下半叶监管法律的变化是否允许鼓励和奖励渎职行为的公司特征发展。具体而言，研究将调查工作渎职是否一直在稳步增加，并在近年来达到顶峰。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，量化公司渎职行为的频率和种类。其次，他们将确定企业渎职的原因。ppi假设多层次子公司公司形式的出现及其所鼓励的违规行为应对此负责。使用离散时间事件历史分析和波西回归PI将用于测试几个特定的假设。这项研究的创新之处在于，它解决了企业中未被调查的方面，这些方面作为渎职的潜在原因具有巨大的潜在重要性。这项研究也超越了之前对公司渎职行为的研究，这些研究不成比例地关注个人对渎职行为的贡献，只研究了那些被认定为犯罪的社会行为，或者没有研究多层子公司公司形式变化的影响。研究结果有助于帮助我们更好地了解企业渎职行为，并为预防性监管政策的循证变革提供可能。如果公司渎职行为能够大大减少或消除，整个社会将在经济上受益。由于最近的企业渎职行为，对美国经济和个人金融安全造成的损害是巨大的。为了确保从拟议的研究中获得最大的利益，研究结果将通过在会议上发表、在同行评审期刊上发表和分发给有关的政府监管机构等方式广泛传播。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，来自代表性不足的群体的学生数量过高。其目的是继续这种招聘方式。

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.