Religion and Attitudes to Corporate Social Responsibility in a Large Cross-Country Sample - S. Brammer, Geoffrey Williams and John Zinkin (2006)

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CSR corporate social responsibility, religion, economic stability, human rights, ethical business models

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In this article, authors Stephen Brammer, Geoffrey Williams, and John Zinkin examine the effect of religious identity on attitudes toward corporate social responsibility (CSR).
After reviewing existing literature, the authors conclude that the Hebrew Bible, the Rabbinic writings, the Qur'an, the books of Sunnah, and the Christian Gospels all promote an other-centered perspective towards money-making. They start with the assumption that people with religious identity have a different understanding of CSR than atheists.

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[...] In fact, one might argue that in European countries, Communist heritage is at least as much important as Christians. People's views on CSR mainly come from ideological standpoints that are partially religious and political; this frontier is blurrier than expected. For further research, one could suggest more specific questions in order to obtain more clivant resultats. The homogeneity of those results (although authors argue the opposite) show that money-making has always been profit oriented, regardless of the area or the time. [...]

[...] Religion and Attitudes to Corporate Social Responsibility in a Large Cross-Country Sample - S. Brammer, Geoffrey Williams and John Zinkin (2006) In this article, authors Stephen Brammer, Geoffrey Williams, and John Zinkin examine the effect of religious identity on attitudes toward corporate social responsibility (CSR). After collecting surveys from over 17,000 individuals in 20 countries, the authors analyze the role of having any religious affiliation on attitudes towards CSR and the relationship between a denomination's teachings and adherents' attitudes toward specific aspects of CSR. [...]

[...] The first problem we may identify with this assumption is that authors undermine the extent to which so-called atheists are brought up in a religious heritage and therefore, have more or less the same morals and ethics than self-identified religious people. On the opposite, to be self-identified as a muslim or a christian does not necessarily imply a strict application of religious dogmas. Also, to be in line with CSR requires that decision makers have a clear and in-depth reading of both socio-economical context and the repercussions of their actions. [...]

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