This essay on Corporations is a chapter in an upcoming volume on economic theology edited by Stefan Schwarzkopf.The secular study of corporations has long regularly focused on three sets of concerns: (1) Is the idea of corporate “personhood” only a convenient shorthand for a complex set of...

Religious divisions have long played a primary role in major conflicts throughout much of the world. Intergroup contact may increase trust between members of different religions. However, evidence on how inter-religious contact affects individuals’ behavior towards one another is scarce. We...

In this paper, I study the influence of religious and astrological beliefs on new firm formation and firm profitability in India. I find that in the Hindi Heartland region (comprising eleven states), more new firms are incorporated on Tuesdays as compared to other working weekdays (the Tuesday...

Purpose - This paper aims to determine whether Islamic banks (IBs) and conventional banks (CBs) in Tunisia are distinguishable from one another based on financial characteristics during the 2005-2014 period covering the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and the 2011 Tunisian revolution....

This paper addresses the performance of creative firms from the perspective of complex spatial systems. Based on an extensive high-dimensional database on both the attributes of individual creative firms in the Netherlands and a series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors...

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...

This paper examines whether and, if so, why source country heterogeneity exists in foreign direct investment (FDI). Using detailed data on all Swedish firms for the period from 1996 to 2009, we find statistical evidence that affiliate performance differs systematically across source countries....

There has been considerable and ongoing debate about the performance of the British economy since 1945. Empirical studies have concentrated on aggregate or industry level indicators. Few have examined individual firms' financial performance. This study takes a sample of c.3000 firms in 19...

As U.S. corporations have sought remedies to the ills of the 1980s era of diversification through conglomeration, “restructuring” or “reengineering” has become a management buzzword. Equally significant has been the exponential growth of the extant literature on the subject. The...

The choice of performance measures is one of the most critical challenges facing corporate. Performance measurement systems play a key role in developing strategic plans, evaluating the achievement of organizational objectives, and compensating managers. Yet many managers feel that traditional...