State Secularism - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

States for Bermuda. While their move was blocked, I was struck by their motivations and the relative ease with which a firm could do this—and the consequences for shareholders, managers, and the government. At the same time, I was writing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Brazil and Russia. My London School of Economics colleague Janet Hunter and I start our chapter with skepticism about such rankings, suggesting for example that the good standing of the United States in such metrics probably fails to take... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

hitting best-seller lists lately, and conferences on spirituality and business have been springing up all over the United States and Canada. Web sites dedicated to such topics now pepper the Internet. Even the World Economic Forum devoted... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

decade. These secular trends have profound implications for our theories of innovation and organizations. Our extant theory and research is increasingly uncoupled from the phenomena. We would be well served to revisit the nature, locus,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

whereby headquarter locations have been split up and reallocated across the world, and c) the growing importance of non-US markets for US firms. Rather than questioning the loyalties of executives, it is critical to understand these underlying structural and View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

secular trend for India's manufacturing urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster... View Details