Merrick School of Business
Professor Emerita of Management
Awards and Honors
BG&E Chair
Education
Ph.D., Sloan School of Management, MIT
M.S., Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
M.D., Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Born and raised in Brazil, Regina Bento started her career as a psychiatrist (M.D., Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, 1977), studying the relationship between work and mental health. Interested in learning more about the nature of work and organizations, she went on to pursue graduate studies in administration. After an M.S. in Management (COPPEAD, UFRJ, 1979), she came to the United States for doctoral studies at Harvard and MIT (Ph.D. Sloan School of Management, MIT, 1990).
She is the BG&E Chair and Professor of Management at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, which she joined in 1991. During sabbaticals and leaves from UB, Regina was twice a Visiting Professor at the Sloan School, MIT (1998, 2007) and served three years as Associate Director of the Christensen Center at the Harvard Business School (2006 through 2009).
Regina’s publications include an award-winning book on decision-making; chapters in research books published by the Harvard Business School Press, Sage, Routledge, Jossey-Bass and others; articles in journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Management Learning, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Management Systems, Information and Management, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Human Resource Management Journal, Communications of the AIS, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Journal of Management Development, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Journal of Management Education, Organization Management Journal, and others, She has also authored award-winning conference papers and business cases, as well as numerous other publications.
Regina has received multiple research and teaching awards, including the USM Regents Award, the highest honor in the University System of Maryland.
Careers, Performance Appraisal and Rewards, Stigma, Leadership, Management Education
Leadership, Organizational Behavior
Book Chapters
Antonacopoulou, E., & Bento, R. F. (2022). Rethinking Entrepreneurial Leadership. World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship Volume 3: Spirituality, Entrepreneurship and Social Change. Ch. 3 - pp. 57-74.
Bento, R. F., & Antonacopoulou, E. (2020). Choosing Our Cross with Wisdom: A Folktale for Living and Leading. Routledge. 62-82.
Refereed Journal Articles
Bento, R. F., & White, L. F. (2024). Getting Better at Doing Good: Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas in Management Accounting. Advances in Management Accounting. 37. pp 147-170.
Soh, W., Antonacopoulou, E., Rigg, C., White, L. F., & Bento, R. F. (2024). Changing Internal Auditing from a Compliance-based to a Conduct-Focused Approach. Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting. 26. 1-21.
Asarta, C. J., Bento, R. F., Ferrara, Z., Fornaciari, C. J., Hwang, A., Lund Dean, K., & Mendez-Carbajo, D. (2023). Key Authors in Business and Management Education (BME) with a Bibliometric Analysis of Economic Education Scholarship by Gender. AEE Advances in Economics Education. 2(1), 46-69.
Antonacopoulou, E., Bento, R. F., & White, L. F. (2023). Where Was Internal Audit? Professional Misconduct and the Wells Fargo Scandal. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 84. 227-244.
Bento, R. F., & White, L. F. (2023). Artificial Intelligence and Ethical Professional Judgments in a Small Audit Firm Context. Business & Professional Ethics Journal. 42(3), 315-357.
Soh, W., Antonacopoulou, E., Rigg, C., & Bento, R. F. (2023). Embedding a ‘Reflexive Mindset': Lessons from reconfiguring the internal auditing practice”. Academy of Management Learning & Education. 22(1), 88-111.
Bento, R. F., Mertins, L., & White, L. F. (2020). Calculation, Principle or Bias? Information Preference and Ethical Decision-Making. International Studies of Management and Organization. 50(3), 232-252.
Asarta, C. J., Bento, R. F., Ferrara, Z., Fornaciari, C. J., & Hwang, A. (2020). Next Steps in Business and Management Education (BME) Scholarship. Journal of Management Education. 44(5), 622-634.
Bento, R. F., Sauerbronn, F., & Sauerbronn, J. F. (2020). The Rose and the Cactus: The lived and unanswered callings of Manya Sklodowska (Marie Curie) and Mileva Marić (Einstein). Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies. 20(6), 549-564.
Lund Dean, K., Fornaciari, C., Bento, R. F., & Asarta, C. (2020). Premises, Promises, and Perils of the Academic Potemkin Village. Management Learning. 51(4), 491-510.
Conference Proceedings
Bento, R. F., & White, L. F. (2023). Ethical Responsibility and Professional Judgment in the Use of Artificial Intelligence. Academy of Management.
Bento, R. F., & White, L. F. (2022). Assessing Conduct Risk: Reinventing Internal Audit to Predict and Prevent Misconduct. IVBEC - 29th Annual International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
Antonacopoulou, E., Bento, R. F., & White, L. F. (2021). Promoting the Common Good: The Internal Audit Function and the Persistence of Wrongdoing. IVBEC - 28th Annual International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference..
Soh, W., Antonacopoulou, E., Rigg, C., & Bento, R. F. (2021). Embedding a ‘Reflexive Mindset’ to Serve the Common Good: Lessons from Reconfiguring the Internal Auditing Function. Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings.
Antonacopoulou, E., Bento, R. F., Pavlovich, K., & Markman, G. (2021). Rethinking Entrepreneurial Leadership for Compassionate Change. Academy of Management.
Soh, W., Antonacopoulou, E., Rigg, C., & Bento, R. F. (2021). Embedding a Reflexive Mindset: Lessons from Reconfiguring the Internal Audit Function. Academy of Management - Best Papers Proceedings.
Bento, R. F., & White, L. F. (2020). COVID-19 and Managerial Decision-Making: Ethics and risks. IVBEC- International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
Soh, W. G., Antonacopoulou, E. P., Bento, R. F., & Rigg, C. (2020). Changing From Compliance-Based to Conduct-Focused Internal Auditing Approach to Prevent Misconduct. Academy of Management.
Bento, R. F., & Antonacopoulou, E. P. (2020). The Return to Reflexivity in Management and Leadership Practice: Seeing More, Seeing Differently. Academy of Management.
Antonacopoulou, E. P., & Bento, R. F. 2023 Academy of Management Meeting, "“Taking Learning to Work: The Impact of Reflexive Learning in Leadership Development and Education”," Academy of Management, Boston. (2023).
Bento, R. F., & White, L. 2023 Research Engagement Day - RED Talks, "Managing Conduct Risk: Innovative Approaches to Internal Auditing," Univ, (2023).
Bento, R. F., & White, L. F. 2023 Research Engagement Day - RED Talks, "Managing Conduct Risk: Innovative Approaches to Internal Auditing," University of Baltimore, (2023).
Bento, R. F., Pezeshkan, A., & Smith, A. Academy of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Knowledge (ACIEK), "SEIZING TEMPORARY OPPORTUNITIES: THE CASE OF BRAZIL AND GERMANY NATIONAL TEAMS IN THE 2014 WORLD CUP," Madrid, Spain. (2023).
Crowne, K. A., Morgan, S., & Bento, R. F. MOBTC - Mid-Atlantic Organization Behavior Teaching Conference , "Teaching Diversity When You Don’t Represent Diversity.," Virtual. (2022).
Bento, R. F., & white, . 2022 Research Engagement Day - RED Talks, "Internal Audit and the Persistence of Wrongdoing," U. of Baltimore, (2022).
Antonacopoulou, E., Bento, R. F., Pavlovich, K., & Markman, G. D. Academy of Management, "Rethinking Entrepreneurial Leadership for Compassionate Change," https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting. (2021).
Soh, W., Bento, R. F., Rigg, C., & Antonacopoulou, E. Academy of Management, "Bringing back the Manager into Management: The Role of Reflexivity in Leadership Practice / Cultivating a ‘Reflexive Mindset’: Lessons from Reconfiguring the Internal Audit Function," https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting. (2021).
Antonacopoulou, E., Bento, R. F., & Monzani, L. International Leadership Association - Diversity Equity and Inclusion Summit, "Emplaced Leadership: Ecological Activism as an antidote to EDI Mistreatment fostering Sustainability and Inclusiveness," International Leadership Association -, (2021).
Bento, R. F., & White, L. F. 2021 Research Engagement Day - RED Talks, "COVID-19 and Small Businesses: Ethical Decision-Making," University of Baltimore, (2021).
Bento, R. F., & White, L. F. Faculty Dialogues, "Professional Judgment in Small CPA Firms," Merrick School of Business, (2020).
Bento, R. F., Lund Dean, K., Fornaciari, C., Stark, J., Edwards, M., & Gallagher, E. MOBTS, "“Can we talk?” A Two-Part Symposium on COVID and faculty mental health from a 360 perspective," Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, Virtual / Purdue. (2020).
Stickney, L. T., Bento, R. F., Fowler, D. C., & Weiner, J. Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Zoom Conference, "Teaching Online Courses: Instructional Models and Technological Options," (2020).
Bento, R. F., & White, L. F. Research Engagement Day - RED Talks, "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Professional Judgment in Small CPA Firms.," University of Baltimore, (2020).