UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., May 7 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- When Linda Treviño was a graduate student at Texas A&M in the 1980s, she was struck by the number of business scandals in the news and how there was almost no research about why organizations and their leadership behaved that way.

"The study of business ethics wasn't really recognized," she said. "It was thought to be the province of philosophers."

Four decades after she began to explore ethical behavior as a student, Treviño, distinguished professor of organizational behavior and ethics in the Penn State Smeal College of Business, has been honored by the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division ...