Danielle Warren
Professor I
Professor Warren’s main contribution to scholarship lies in advancing our understanding of why deviance arises in business settings, how to evaluate it, and how to deter destructive deviance while promoting constructive deviance. She builds upon both normative and descriptive theory and conducts quantitative as well as qualitative research on sanctioning systems, ethics training, and ethical leadership. Her field work includes in-depth studies of auto insurance fraud, trading on financial exchanges, banking and external auditing. Her research appears in Academy of Management Review, Accounting and the Public Interest, Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Business and Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business & Society Review, Corporate Reputation Review, Group Decision & Negotiation, Journal of Business Ethics, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Science, and Research in Organizational Behavior. Professor Warren teaches undergraduate, MBA and doctoral courses in business ethics. She is Senior Fellow of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at The Wharton School and Research Fellow of Rutgers’ Institute for Ethical Leadership. She served on the Society for Business Ethics Board of Directors (2017-2022) and as President (2020-21). She currently sits on multiple editorial boards. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Ph.D., Wharton School of Business; Management
M.A., Wharton School of Business; Management
B.S., Rutgers University
Featured publications
Lewin, L.D. & Warren, D.E. 2024. Hypocrites! Social media reactions and stakeholder backlash to conflicting CSR information. Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05700-4
Warren, D. E. 2022. “Woke” corporations and the stigmatization of corporate social initiatives. Business Ethics Quarterly, 32: 169-198. https://doi.org/10.1017/beq.2021.48
Recent publications
Warren, D.E. 2024. Wake up! Advancing the conversation on woke labeling. Journal of Management Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926241265297
Lewin, L.D. & Warren, D.E. 2024. Hypocrites! Social media reactions and stakeholder backlash to conflicting CSR information. Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05700-4
Lewin, L. D., & Warren, D.E. 2024. Calls to action: The dangers of negative CSR information and stakeholder punishments. Corporate Reputation Review, 27: 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1057/S41299-023-00158-Y
Scharding, T.K., & Warren, D.E. 2024. When are norms prescriptive? Clarifying the role of norms in behavioral ethics research. Business Ethics Quarterly, 34: 331-364. https://doi.org/10.1017/beq.2023.11
Scharding, T.K., Eastman, W., Ciulla, J., & Warren, D.E. 2022. Can ethics drive firms to do the right thing if there is no business case? Rutgers Business Review, Summer 2022.
Warren, D. E. 2022. “Woke” corporations and the stigmatization of corporate social initiatives. Business Ethics Quarterly, 32: 169-198.
Warren, D. E. & Schweitzer, M. E. 2021. When weak sanctioning systems work: Evidence from auto insurance industry fraud investigations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 166: 68-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2019.04.003
Lewin, L., Warren, D. E. & AlSuwaidi, M. 2020. Does CSR make better citizens? The influence of employee CSR programs on employee societal citizenship behavior outside of work. Business & Society Review.
Warren, D.E., Scharding, T., Lewin, L. & Pandya, U. 2020. Making sure corporate social innovations do social good. Rutgers Business Review.
Warren, D. E. 2019. The persistence of organizational deviance: When informal sanctioning systems undermine formal sanctioning systems. Business Ethics Quarterly, 29:55-84.
Warren, D. E., & Schweitzer, M. E. 2018. When lying does not pay: How experts detect insurance fraud. Journal of Business Ethics, 150: 711-726
*Bright Idea Award winner
Warren, D. E., Peytcheva, M. & Gaspar, J. 2015. When ethical tones at the top conflict: Adapting priority rules to reconcile conflicting tones. Business Ethics Quarterly, 25: 559-582.
Smith-Crowe, K. & Warren, D. E. 2014. The emotion-evoked collective corruption model: The role of emotion in the spread of corruption within organizations. Organization Science, 25: 1154-1171.
Warren, D. E., Gaspar, J. & Laufer, W.S. 2014. Is formal ethics training merely cosmetic? A study of comprehensive ethics training and indicators of ethical organizational culture. Business Ethics Quarterly, 24: 85-117.
Peytcheva, M. & Warren, D. E. 2013. How auditors perceive sanction severity and the detection of violations: Insights into professional vulnerabilities. Accounting and the Public Interest, 13(1), 1-13.
Articles with Doctoral Students
Lewin, L., Warren, D. E. & AlSuwaidi, M. 2020. Does CSR make better citizens? The influence of employee CSR programs on employee societal citizenship behavior outside of work. Business & Society Review.
Warren, D.E., Scharding, T., Lewin, L. & Pandya, U. 2020. Making sure corporate social innovations do social good. Rutgers Business Review.
Warren, D. E., Peytcheva, M. & Gaspar, J. 2015. When ethical tones at the top conflict: Adapting priority rules to reconcile conflicting tones. Business Ethics Quarterly, 25: 559-582.
Warren, D. E., Gaspar, J. & Laufer, W.S. 2014. Is formal ethics training merely cosmetic? A study of comprehensive ethics training and indicators of ethical organizational culture. Business Ethics Quarterly, 24: 85-117.
Peytcheva, M. & Warren, D. E. 2013. How auditors perceive sanction severity and the detection of violations: Insights into professional vulnerabilities. Accounting and the Public Interest, 13(1), 1-13.
Glac, K., Warren, D. E., & Chen, C. 2012. Conflict in roles: Lying to the ingroup versus the outgroup in negotiations. Business & Society, 53: 440-460.
Unal, A. F., Warren, D. E. & Chen, C. 2012. The normative foundations of unethical supervision in organizations. Journal of Business Ethics, 107(1): 5-19.
Peytcheva, M. & Warren, D. E. 2011. Auditor professionalism: The importance of internalizing professional standards and detecting professional violations. Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 30: 1-2.
Warren, D. E. & Alzola, M. 2009. Ensuring independent auditors: Increasing the saliency of the professional identity. Group Decision & Negotiation, 18: 41-56.
Advisor:
Oyku Arkan - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Mahak Nagpal - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Lisa Lewin - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Andika Pratama - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Mohammed alSuwaidi - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Committee Member:
Gohar Harutyunyan - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Andrew Fultz - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Lauren Aydinliyim - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Wen Zhang - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Katie Manley - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Vincent Ogutu - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Ali Fehmi Unal - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Soojin Kim - School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers
Anne-Laure Winkler - School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers
Witaya Siripanwattana - Supply Chain Management Dept., Rutgers
Joseph Gaspar - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Joseph McManus - Management & Global Business Dept., Rutgers
Danielle Lombardi - Accounting and Information Systems, Rutgers
Grishma Shah - Global Affairs, Rutgers
Miguel Alzola - Business Ethics, Rutgers
Katherina Glac - Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School
Yuxuan (Ernest) Nie - School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers