9“Islamic Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism”
Introduction
At a time when dogmas prevail, we are witnessing a rapprochement between religions and the business world. In the early 20th century, Max Weber had already highlighted the overlap between religious order and economic order in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Does being more religious and more practicing improve performance? Does religion influence business behavior, and its ethical dimension, in particular? Many authors have examined the relationship between religion and business in an attempt to answer these questions (Kennedy and Lawton, 1998; Mitroff and Denton, 1999; Agle and Van Buren, 1999; Giacalone and ...
