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 & Kam Phung, (2025), "When Newspapers Fail to Deter Corporate Illegality: The Constraining Effects of Economic Institutions." Journal of Management Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13273

Newspapers reaching a larger population do not always discourage corporate illegality. This influence can be notably weakened in countries with strong cultural pressure to succeed or with pervasive economic penetration into newspapers.

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

Firms’ CSR engagement is generally weaker in politically conservative communities. Yet, if the community spirit of political conservatism is strengthened by cooperative social capital, firms at least better reduce their irresponsible behaviors.

Tony Jaehyun Choi & Mike Valente, (2023), “The crisis in local newspapers and organizational wrongdoing: The role of community social connectedness.” Organization Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2022.1644

Firms tend to commit wrongdoings with larger sizes (penalties) in response to the closure of local newspapers. However, this effect can be reduced if communities have strong social capital. Firms also exhibit different patterns with respect to internal and external wrongdoings.

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

Canadian firms have expanded sustainability reporting, yet they still trail international peers. Adoption of global frameworks like GRI, SDGs, and TCFD is growing, but the quality and consistency of disclosures remain uneven.

Selected Working Papers

Tony Jaehyun Choi & Jan Lodge, "Knowing Which Way the Wind Blows: How Management Forecast Accuracy Mitigates the Repercussions of Corporate Misconduct."
Tony Jaehyun Choi, Yuval Deutsch, & Hyeonchung Henry Lee, "The Dark Side of Instrumental Stakeholder Theory: Evidence from Sustainability Reporting and 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, Yuval Duetsch, & Hyeonchung Henry Lee, (2025), EGOS, Athens, Greece.
Tony Jaehyun Choi & Jan Lodge, (2024), EGOS, Milan, Italy.
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.

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