Research Assignment

BUSI 472

Research Paper Assignment Instructions  

  

Overview:  

You will write a Research Paper on a topic relating to business ethics. You will research what is being said in the academic literature about the issue and what the secular worldview suggests is relevant in the contemporary business environment. You will then research the Bible for information related to the topic and identify what a Christian or follower of God should consider important related to the topic under consideration. Compare and contrast what agrees between Scripture and the secular thoughts and what may differ between the two.

Your Research Paper Assignment must be 8–10 pages and double spaced, not including the title page, abstract, and references pages. You must include 8–10 scholarly references in addition to the course textbooks and the Bible. You must use your textbooks as sources; other acceptable sources are journal articles from peer-reviewed journals, theoretical texts, and the Bible. Citations must be in current APA format. As this is a Research Paper, it must be written in third person.

Instructions: 

· The Research Paper Assignment is comprised of 3 parts: (1) the topic selection including research question/problem, rationale for selecting the topic, and thesis statement; (2) the annotated bibliography listing the proposed sources you will cite in your Research Paper Assignment, and (3) the final submission of the Research Paper Assignment.

· You will choose a topic and write a rationale for that topic.

· You will also create an Annotated Bibliography noting the 8-10 sources you intend to cite in the Research Paper.

Topic selection: Financial Misconduct

Research question: Why financial misconduct effect business practices?

Reason for selecting topic: Business environment deal with financial issues all the time

Thesis statement: Financial misconduct in business must continue better practices.

Annotated Bibliography Assignment

Financial Misconduct

1.) Raghunandan. (2021). Financial misconduct and employee mistreatment: Evidence from wage theft. Review of Accounting Studies., 26(3), 867–905. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-021-09602-y

Description:

examine the economical meaning of unexplored form of real activities management: corporate wage theft and how wage theft arise from similar financial incentives to existing real activities management measures also discusses how firms are less likely to engage in financial misconduct when they engage in higher levels of wage theft.

2.) Zorn, M.L., Shropshire, C., Martin, J.A., Combs, J.G. and Ketchen, D.J., Jr. (2017), Home Alone: The Effects of Lone-Insider Boards on CEO Pay, Financial Misconduct, and Firm Performance.

Description:

How corporate governance practice continues to evolve. The evolution that has largely escaped scholarly attention and that it has increased use of lone-insider boards, which occur when the CEO is home alone as the only current employee on the board of directors. Also discusses publicly traded firms that face pressure to increase board independence.

3.) Naumovska, I., & Lavie, D. (2021). When an Industry Peer Is Accused of Financial Misconduct: Stigma versus Competition Effects on Non-accused Firms.

Description:

Research on misconduct suggests that accusations against industry peers generate negative consequences for non-accused firms. In addition, building on research on competitive dynamics that infer in accusations that can benefit non-accused firms to compete with t peers and to reconcile the opposing perspectives.

4.) Zhong, X., Ren, L., & Song, T. (2021). Different effects of internal and external tournament incentives on corporate financial misconduct

Description:

Explains how corporate financial misconduct a widespread phenomenon in business practice is. Once their financial misconduct behaviors are exposed, firms suffer penalties and negative publicity, which may result in substantial financial and reputational losses. In addition, how corporate financial misconduct destroys investor confidence and damages the economic system. Thus, reducing corporate financial misconduct is a critical concern for shareholders and policy makers.

5.) Grosse, R. (2017). The global financial crisis—Market misconduct and regulation from a behavioral view. Research in International Business and Finance.

Description:

This paper explores the problem of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, using a behavioral perspective to examine in some detail the issue of governance failures. These failures are evident in the inadequate oversight/regulation provided by US financial market regulators, as well as the inability of financial market participants to adequately judge and assign risk measures to key financial instruments.

6.) Karpoff, J. M., Koester, A., Lee, D. S., & Martin, G. S. (2017). Proxies and databases in financial misconduct research.

Description:

An extensive literature examines the causes and effects of financial misconduct based on samples drawn from four popular databases that identify restatements, securities class action lawsuits, and Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases. To examine the causes of such discrepancies that compare the information in each database to a detailed sample of 1,243 case histories in which regulators brought enforcement actions for financial misrepresentation.

7.) Mehta, M. N., & Zhao, W. (2020). Politician careers and SEC enforcement against financial misconduct.

Description:

This article explains the document of corporate financial misconduct that has brought significant consequences for politicians' election outcomes and, in particular, those politicians that serve on U.S.