Toronto – Three research studies co-authored by faculty at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management were named to a list of the top 100 studies with the greatest social impact published recently by the Financial Times.
The highest scoring paper was Brain Drain, co-authored by Prof. Kristen Duke, when she was a doctoral student at the Rady School of Management at the University of California in San Diego. The paper, published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, sought to test whether carrying a smartphone, even without looking at it, can impair cognitive performance.
Placing third on the list was Whitened Résumés: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market co-authored by Profs. Sonia Kang, Katy DeCelles, and András Tilcsik, along with Sora Jun, an assistant professor at UT Dallas, who is a graduate of the Rotman Commerce program. The paper, published in Administrative Science Quarterly, examined resume whitening: changing or deleting aspects of one's resume; to conceal or downplay one's race.
Also placing on the list, was Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence, co-authored by Prof. Alexander Dyck and published in the Journal of Financial Economics. The paper assesses whether shareholders drive the environmental and social performance of firms worldwide.
The Financial Times asked business schools to select up to five papers by their academics, published in the past five years, that they considered to have social impact. It then used Altmetric, a service owned by Digital Science, to quantify the online resonance that each had with the wider world beyond universities, drawing on references ranging from academic citations to social media posts. The complete list is online.
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