Donald Palmer, PhD

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Donald Palmer (PhD Sociology, Stony Brook University) is Emeritus Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Normal Organizational Wrongdoing (Oxford University Press), which won the 2013 Academy of Management, Social Issues in Management best book award. He has conducted research on a variety of types of misconduct in organizations including the use of banned performance enhancing substances in professional cycling and financial fraud in new entrepreneurial ventures. His work on child sexual abuse (CSA) in youth serving organizations (YSOs) began with an examination of how organizational culture can facilitate CSA in YSOs for the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse (2016).