Jared Peifer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business, Organizations & Society. He earned his PhD in Sociology at Cornell University (2011) and prior to that, his BA in Sociology and Economics at Temple University (2003). Following his PhD, he held a Post-Doctoral fellowship at Rice University, then spent 10 years as an Assistant, then Associate Professor of Management at Baruch College (City University of New York). I joined the F&M faculty in 2024.

Prior to joining F&M, Peifer taught courses on Business and Society, which focuses on the ethical responsibilities of business. He also taught courses on Organizational Theory and Organizational Change. At F&M, he teachers Organizational Behavior (BOS315), and plan to teach Strategies for Organizing (BOS200).

His research focuses on people’s moral motivations as they engage in various economic activities, including stock market investments, charitable giving, consumption of environmentally friendly products and the commercialization of scientific discoveries. He explores how various institutional logics (e.g., religion, charity, science) compete with the business logic, and is also collecting a large data set of CSR Reports from Fortune Global 500 firms in order to conduct textual analysis on the ways large firms talk about their responsibilities toward society and the environment. His work has been published in Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Social Forces, Socio-Economic Review, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Journal of Higher Education, to name a few. Peifer is a Research Integrity Editor at Journal for Business Ethics and an Associate Editor at Business and Society Review.