Rotman Faculty Receive Awards for Responsible Research in Management.
Toronto, Mar. 15, 2019 Two papers co-authored by professors at the University of Toronto have been recognized for research that focuses on important issues for business and society. Research by Ole-Kristian Hope, a professor of accounting who is the Deloitte Professor of Accounting at the Rotman School of Management, and Greg Distelhorst, an assistant professor at the University’s Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, who is cross-appointed to the Rotman School’s Strategic Management area was honoured.
The Second IACMR-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Management is co-sponsored by the International Association for Chinese Management Research and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management.
Receiving a “distinguished winners” award is a paper by Prof. Distelhorst along with colleagues Jens Hainmueller of Stanford University, and Richard Locke of Brown University, published in Management Science, “Does lean improve labor standards? Management and social performance in the Nike supply chain.” The study examines a panel of more than 300 Nike supplier factories in 11 developing countries, finding that the adoption of lean manufacturing reduced noncompliance with labor standards reflected in wage and work hour policies
Receiving a “winners” award is a paper by Prof. Hope with colleagues Herita Akamah of University of Nebraska – Lincoln and Wayne Thomas of University of Oklahoma. Published in the Journal of International Business Studies, “Tax havens and disclosure aggregation.” The study examines the extent of operations in tax havens compared with U.S. companies’ disclosures of geographic operations. This study uses hypothesis testing and change analyses to conclude that firms operating more extensively in tax havens tend to disclose information at a higher level of aggregation.
RRBM’s seven Principles of Responsible Science—service to society; stakeholder involvement; impact on stakeholders; valuing both basic and applied contributions; valuing plurality and multidisciplinary collaboration; sound methodology; and broad dissemination—guide the selection of recognized papers, along with credibility and usefulness.
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