Matthew Caulfield

PhD Student

Contact Information

Primary Email:
mcaul@wharton.upenn.edu

office Address:
Jon M. Huntsman Hall Suite 600
3730 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: Organizational Secrecy, Organizational Authority, Equality in Markets and Firms

Overview

Matthew Caulfield is a fourth-year doctoral student and Platt Fellow in Business Ethics. His main research interests are in normative business ethics. His dissertation focuses on Organizational Secrecy, Organizational Authority, and Equality in Markets and Firms.

Prior to entering the program, he graduated with a B.S. in Economics summa cum laude from Wharton, with concentrations in Management and Legal Studies & Business Ethics, where he was a Wharton Research Scholar and a PwC Scholar.

Research

Matthew Caulfield (Forthcoming), Toward a We-Mode Team Production Theory of the Firm: A Confucian Approach.
Matthew Caulfield (2019), Expressive Business Ethics, Business Ethics (Busines & Society 360), 3, pp. 123-153.
Matthew Caulfield and William S. Laufer (Forthcoming), Corporate Moral Agency at the Convenience of Law and Ethics.
Matthew Caulfield and William S. Laufer (2018), The Promise of Corporate Character Theory, Iowa Law Review Online, 103 (101).
Matthew Caulfield (2018), The Expressive Functions of Pay, Business Ethics Journal Review, 6, pp. 1-6. 10.12747/bejr2018.06.01
Abstract: Jeffrey Moriarty argues that unequal pay for employees who do the same work is not necessarily wrong, but can be wrong if it is discriminatory or deceptive. Moriarty does this in part by stressing that pay should be considered primarily as a price for labor and therefore that our views on price discrimination and unequal pay should mirror each other. In this critique, I argue that Moriarty fails to adequately account for the expressive functions of pay. A pluralist view of pay reveals otherwise overlooked normative concerns regarding pay and cautions against adopting too strong of an analytical connection between price discrimination and unequal pay.

In the News

Two Virginia counties did the improbable: They replaced their voting machines, Washington Post - 07/07/2017 Description
Matthew Caulfield and Michael Windle explain how the market structure of the voting-technology industry is a core cause of the stagnation that keeps voters across the United States using machines more than 10 years old.
Building a Better American Voting System, Knowledge @ Wharton - 05/02/2017 Description
Wharton’s Lorin Hitt and doctoral student Matthew Caulfield discuss the state of the U.S. voting technology industry.

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Matthew Caulfield (Forthcoming), Toward a We-Mode Team Production Theory of the Firm: A Confucian Approach.

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In the News

Two Virginia counties did the improbable: They replaced their voting machines

Matthew Caulfield and Michael Windle explain how the market structure of the voting-technology industry is a core cause of the stagnation that keeps voters across the United States using machines more than 10 years old.

Washington Post - 07/07/2017

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Society for Business Ethics Founders’ Award 2017

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Matthew Caulfield

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LGST100 - ETHICS & SOCIAL RESP

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