Matthew Caulfield

In Summer 2026 I will be joining Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy. From 2023-2026 I have been an Assistant Professor of Business Ethics at Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business.

My main research interests are in business & society, nonmarket strategy, and philosophical business ethics. My most recent research focuses on market ethics, firm theory, and corporate social responsibility.

I serve on the Editorial Review Board of Academy of Management Review, and on the Editorial Boards of the journals Business & Society and Journal of Business Ethics. For the past two years, I have also served as an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Annual Conference in the Social Issues in Management Division. I am also a 2025-2026 Fellow of the Instituto Promotor del Bien Común on "The Economy, the Firm, and the Common Good" at UPAEP (Puebla, Mexico).

I previously served as Representative-at-Large for the International Association for Business & Society (IABS), and also was Media Director for the Society for Business Ethics and a Senior Fellow at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School. As a hobby, I also do some work on voting technology markets, which as been profiled in Politico.

Selected Publications (* indicates equal authorship)

Caulfield, M. Conditionally Accepted. Why Should We 'Let the Master Answer'?: Complex Corrective Justice and the Moral Logic of Respondeat Superior. Business Ethics Quarterly.
Bhargava, V.* & Caulfield, M.* Forthcoming. Good in Practice, Bad in Theory: On the Managerial Usefulness Desideratum. Business Ethics Quarterly.
Caulfield, M. Forthcoming. Isn’t The Point of Business to Make as Much Money as Possible for Shareholders? In V. Bhargava & M. Kates (Eds.), An Introduction to Business Ethics: Philosophy, Policy, and Management (Routledge).
Meetze, N.* & Caulfield, M.* 2025. Toward Social Justification for Pecuniary and Other Externalities: Building on Kogelmann and Carroll's Intervention. Journal of Business Ethics.
Caulfield, M. 2025. If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're a Firm?: A Book Review of Néron (2024) Seeing Like a Firm (Oxford University Press). Philosophy of Management 24(3).
Caulfield, M. & Lynn, A. 2024. Federated Corporate Social Responsibility: Constraining the Responsible Corporation. Academy of Management Review 49(1): 32-55.
- - - - Second Runner-Up, UC Berkeley Haas Sustainable Research Prize (2025-2026).
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.

Other 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)
Panelist, Reviewer Masterclass, 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 Excellence in Research, Gabelli School of Business (2025)
Paul Lewis Fellowship (2025-2026)
Outstanding Bridge Reviewer Mentor Award, Academy of Management Review (2025)
Faculty Scholar Participant, Don Lavoie Fellowship (2025)
Outstanding Reviewer Contribution Recognition, Journal of Business Ethics (2025)
Institute for Humane Studies Grant (2026)

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