Contact Information
M/C 504
Champaign, IL 61820
Additional Campus Affiliations
Executive Director, Climate Jobs Institute, School of Labor and Employment Relations
Associate Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations
Associate Professor, Sociology
External Links
Recent Publications
Benton, R. A., Cobb, J. A., & Werner, T. (2022). Firm partisan positioning, polarization, and risk communication: Examining voluntary disclosures on COVID-19. Strategic Management Journal, 43(4), 697-723. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3352
Benton, R. A., & Kim, K. J. (2022). The Dependency Structure of Bad Jobs: How Market Constraint Undermines Job Quality. ILR Review, 75(1), 3-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793920936250
Wilcox, A., McDonald, S., Benton, R. A., & Tomaskovic-Devey, D. (2022). Gender inequality in relational position-taking: An analysis of intra-organizational job mobility networks. Social Science Research, 101, Article 102622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102622
Benton, R., Hafeez, A., & Mun, E. (2021). Changing employment relations under a fractured corporate elite. Socio-Economic Review, 19(1), 189-218. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwz008
Benton, R., & Mun, E. (2021). Illinois Corporate Board Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation Report –2020. https://ler.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Illinois-Corporate-Board-Diversity-Report-2020-Revised.pdf