Is Religious Freedom Good for Business?: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis
@inproceedings{Grim2014IsRF, title={Is Religious Freedom Good for Business?: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis}, author={Brian J. Grim}, year={2014} }
Against a global backdrop of steadily rising religious restrictions and hostilities, we expand the religious economies theory by articulating how religious freedom contributes to better economic and business outcomes. Most important, we expand on previous empirical work on the social impact of denying religious freedom, first by examining and finding a positive relationship between global economic competitiveness and religious freedom as exemplified by low government restrictions on religion…
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