BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 20 -- Boise State University issued the following news release:

Jeff Lingwall, associate professor of legal studies, Justin Ames, associate professor and Robert V. Hansberger chair of business ethics, and their co-author Christopher Dinkel at Oklahoma State University, received the Holmes-Cardozo outstanding paper award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business for their paper, "Understanding the Role of Legal Compliance and Value-Based Reasoning in Scenarios Involving Employees: Empirical Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment."

The project brought together legal scholarship, management and decision-making perspectives to explore how people weigh competing values when making decisions involving the law. Lingwall and D...