Research

RESEARCH PROGRAM

I use quantitative methods with a focus on multilevel and panel analyses to investigate how community- and country-level ethical infrastructures control organizational wrongdoing and how organizations remain socially responsive in an effort to identify and avoid risks. As reflected in the emergence of sustainability due diligence, the importance of restraining wrongful actions such as human rights violations and excessive emissions is being more acknowledged in both academia and industries. Three particular streams of research I am currently focusing on include: (1) the roles of social control agents, such as media, administrations and trade associations, in imposing formal and informal sanctions on wrongdoers, (2) the influences of socio-political and cultural environments, such as regional ideology and social capital, on organizational wrongdoing and (3) the process of social responsiveness concerning strategic risk management.

SELECTED RESEARCH PAPERS

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Tony Jaehyun Choi & Yuval Deutsch, (2023), “The two sides of community political conservatism and CSR: Exploring the role of community social connectedness.” Organization Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231156979
Tony Jaehyun Choi & Mike Valente, (2022), “The crisis in local newspapers and organizational wrongdoing: The role of community social connectedness.” Organization Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2022.1644
Charles H. Cho, Kathrin Bohr, Tony Jaehyun Choi, Katharine Partridge, Jhankrut Mukesh Shah & Ada Swierszcz. (2020). “Advancing sustainability reporting in Canada: 2019 Report on progress.” Accounting Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12232

Selected Working Papers

Tony Jaehyun Choi & Kam Phung, "When the Watchdog’s Bark Goes Unheard: Economic Influence on Social Control Mechanism."
Tony Jaehyun Choi, Yuval Deutsch, & Hyeongchung Henry Lee, "Up In the Air: The Effect of Community Social Connectedness in Uncertain Times."
Tony Jaehyun Choi & Jan Lodge, "Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils: How Firms Navigate Corporate Misconduct."

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

List: Academy of Management (AOM); European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS); Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC); International Association for Business and Society (IABS)
Tony Jaehyun Choi & Kam Phung, (2023), AOM, Boston, USA.
Tony Jaehyun Choi & Yuval Deutsch, (2023), EGOS, Cagliari, Italy.
Tony Jaehyun Choi & Kam Phung, (2022), EGOS, Vienna, Austria.
Tony Jaehyun Choi, (2020), EGOS, Hamburg, Germany.
Tony Jaehyun Choi, (2020), ASAC, St. John’s, Canada. The Best Student Paper in Social Responsibility.
Tony Jaehyun Choi & Mike Valente, (2020), IABS, Lisbon, Portugal.
Tony Jaehyun Choi & Yuval Deutsch, (2019), AOM, Boston, USA. The AOM Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings.
Tony Jaehyun Choi, (2019), AOM, Boston, USA. A finalist for the SIM Best Student Paper.
Tony Jaehyun Choi, (2019), ASAC, Montreal, Canada. The Best Student Paper in Social Responsibility.
Tony Jaehyun Choi, (2018), ASAC, Montreal, Canada. The Best Student Paper in Social Responsibility.
Tony Jaehyun Choi, (2017), ASAC, Montreal, Canada.