Matthew Caulfield 

Publications

• Caulfield, M. & Lynn, A. 2024. Federated Corporate Social Responsibility: Constraining the Responsible Corporation. Academy of Management Review 49(1): 32-55.

• Caulfield, M. 2023. Between Markets, Politics, and Ethics: On Vendor Conscience and Impersonal Markets. Journal of Business Ethics 188(2): 307-326.

• Caulfield, M. 2021. Pay Secrecy, Discrimination, and Autonomy. Journal of Business Ethics 171(2): 399-420.

• Caulfield, M. & Laufer, W.S. 2019. Corporate Moral Agency at the Convenience of Ethics and Law. Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 17.

Chapters & Commentary

• Caulfield, M. 2024. Ethics à la Mode: Should Ethics Apply to Artificial Intelligence, or the Other Way Around?. The Innovator (Fordham Social Innovation Collaboratory Magazine). Vol 4, pp. 15-22.

• Caulfield, M. 2020. Book Review: Big Business. Business Ethics Quarterly 30(4): 608-612.

• Caulfield, M. 2019. Expressive Business Ethics. In D.M. Wasieleski & J. Weber (Eds.), Business Ethics (Business & Society 360) (4): 123-153. Emerald.

• Caulfield, M. 2018. The Expressive Functions of Pay. Business Ethics Journal Review 6.

• Strudler, A., Caulfield, M., Kim, T.W. 2021. Toward a “We”-Mode Team Production Theory of the Firm: A Confucian Approach. In M. Pirson et al. (Eds.), Alternative Theories of the Firm. Routledge: Humanistic Management Series.

• Laufer, W.S. & Caulfield, M. 2020. Wall Street and Progressivism. Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin. 37: 36-51.

• Caulfield, M. & Laufer, W.S. 2018. The Promise of Corporate Character Theory. Iowa Law Review Online, 103: 101-22.

Press & Popular Coverage

• Politico - Feature-Length Profile on Friday Cover, One Man’s Quest to Break Open the Secretive World of American Voting Machines

• Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance - Demonizing Wall Street

• Washington Post - Op-ed - Two Virginia counties did the improbable: They replaced their voting machines

• Columbia Law School Blog on Corporations and Capital Markets - Assessing Corporate Character as a Basis for Criminal Sentencing

• Knowledge at Wharton - SiriusXM Interview - Building a Better American Voting System

Research used/cited in: 

• Vox, USA Today, Bloomberg, Fortune, Wired, Barron's, The Hill, Brennan Center, ProPublica, NYTimes, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Report, U.S. Senate Letters (1 & 2).

Awards & Recognition (date ascending)

• Platt Fellowship in Business Ethics (2017-2021), The Wharton School

• Marc and Diane Spilker Corporate Governance Fund Award (2017-2020), The Wharton School

• George James Doctoral Fellowship (2016-2017)

• George James Term Fund Award (2018, 2019)

• Graduate Research Fellowship, Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative (2018-2019)

• Society for Business Ethics Founders' Award (2017)

• Hayek Fund Award (2020, 2023)

• Humane Studies Fellowship (2019-2021)

• University of Bath’s Centre for Business, Organizations, and Society #ThinklistNext21 (2021)

• University-Wide Honors College Outstanding Faculty Award (2022), West Chester University

• James M. Buchanan Fellowship (2023)

• Outstanding Reviewer Contribution Recognition, Journal of Business Ethics (2023)

• Top Contributing Reviewer Recognition, Journal of Business Ethics (2024)

• Outstanding Bridge Reviewer Mentor Award, Academy of Management Review (2024)

• Best Reviewer Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management Conference (2024)

• Institute for Humane Studies Grant (2024)

• Georgetown—Fordham Research Fellowship (Fall 2025)

• Dean's Award for Excellent in Research, Gabelli School of Business (2025)

• Paul Lewis Fellowship (2025-2026)