This paper explores the relationship between religious denomination and individual attitudes to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within the context of a large sample of over 17,000 individuals drawn from 20 countries. We address two general questions: do members of religious denominations have different attitudes concerning CSR than people of no denomination? And: do members of different religions have different attitudes to CSR that conform to general priors about the teachings of different religions? Our evidence suggests that, broadly, religious individuals do not prioritise the responsibilities of the firm differently, but do tend to hold broader conceptions of the social responsibilities of businesses than non-religious individuals. However, we show that this neither true for all religious groups, nor for all areas of CSR.
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ABSTRACT 229 KEYWORDS 229 Introduction 229 Previous studies on religion and business ethics 230 Conceptual development and hypotheses 230 Method 233 Findings 235 Discussion and conclusions 239 Acknowledgements 240 Notes 240 References 241
