Biography

Professor Robertson joined the Goizueta Business School faculty in 1998, after serving on the faculties of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and London Business School. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology at UCLA.

Diana's research interests center on issues in business ethics, particularly the impact of the firm on employee decision-making about ethical issues. Her work examines how organizations influence the ethical behavior of employees through formal ethics initiatives, such as codes of ethics, and via other organizational variables, including organizational structure, pressure to perform, and compensation and control systems. At present she is exploring how salespeople and purchasing agents respond to organizational variables as they make decisions about the ethical issues faced in their day-to-day work. Additional research focuses on exploration of the theoretical basis of ethics codes and cross-national differences in corporate codes of ethics.

Diana's work has been published in Organization Science, Human Relations, The Journal of International Business Studies, Sloan Management Review, and Business Ethics Quarterly.

Publications

• Purchasing Agents'' Ethical Behavior: A Randomized Response Technique Study, with Talia Rymon, Business Ethics Quarterly, in press, 10 (3), 2001
• Lying: the Impact of Decision Context, with William T. Ross, Jr., Business Ethics Quarterly, 10 (2), 409 - 440, 2000
• Fairness of Pricing Decisions: The Impact of Franchising as Organizational Form, with Kathryn Graddy, Business Ethics Quarterly, 9 (2), 225-243, 1999
• Corporate Ethics Initiatives as Social Control, with William S. Laufer, Journal of Business Ethics, 16 (10), 1029-1048, 1997
• The Ethical Issue Emphasis of Companies: Content, Patterning, and Influences, with Nigel Nicholson, Human Relations, 49 (11), 1367-1393, 1996

Areas of Specialization

• Business Ethics
• Social Responsibility
• Corporate Ethics Initiatives

Achievements and Honors

• Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, 2003
• Wharton Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1992, 1994
• University of Pennsylvania Provost Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1990

Professional Memberships and Activities

• Advisory Committee, Society for Business Ethics
• American Sociological Association
• Academy of Management
• International Association of Business and Society
• Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
• European Business Ethics Network

Academic Background
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1974
M.A., Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1969
A.B., Comparative Literature, Northwestern University, 1966