C-BERC Faculty Receive National Institute of Justice Grant

Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation, and Crime (C-BERC) director Sally S. Simpson, Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice; faculty advisory board member Debra Shapiro, Professor, Management and Organization; Christine Beckman, Associate Professor, Management and Organization; and Gerald Martin, Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate, American University; received a grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) for their work on Board Diversity, Corporate Malfeasance and Legal Sanctions. The project will examine whether companies with greater Board and top management team diversity have less risk of corporate malfeasance and if, upon formal legal discovery of malfeasance, organizations take action to change Board composition as a signal to their stakeholders. The study will also assess whether organizations respond differently to legal discovery and sanction by regulatory, civil, and/or criminal sources. 

For more information about the Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation, and Crime (C-BERC) visit http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/cberc