This study examines the role of religion in explaining corporate labor decisions. In particular, we investigate whether local religiousness explains how firms respond to demand changes in terms of labor investment and whether it is associated with labor investment efficiency. Based on data from...

We examine the impact of county-level religiosity on labor investment decisions. Specifically, we examine the effect of county-level religiosity on labor investment inefficiency. Drawing on the social norm theory, we hypothesize that firms located in religious counties do not engage in...

We study the effects of local religious beliefs on mutual fund risk-taking behaviors. Funds located in low-Protestant or high-Catholic areas exhibit significantly higher fund return volatilities. Similar differences persist when we use the religiosity ratios at fund managers' college locations....

This paper presents a study of the volunteer as an essential agent in the success of any event, and offers recommendations for improving management of megaevents. To achieve this goal we propose a structural model that analyses the multidimensionality of the value concept as antecedent of...

Cela fait maintenant plus d'une décennie que le fait religieux a fait irruption dans l'entreprise : demandes d'absences pour fêtes religieuses, port ostentatoire d'un signe religieux, demandes d'aménagement du temps de travail, demandes de temps de prière, refus de travailler avec des...

While the field of management has developed as a research discipline over the last century, until the early 1990s there was essentially no acknowledgement that the human spirit plays an important role in the workplace. Over the past twenty years, the tide has begun to turn, as evidenced by the...

"As we become more and more of a global trading world, the challenges of leading and managing within this turbulent environment and its associated, complex, interconnected markets and disconnected relationships, "How far can any change requirements be practically engaged with, whilst also...