Islamic Value and Organizational Ethics: A Systematic Literature Review

The theme of organizational ethics has seen growing interest from scholars and practitioners in recent years. Ethics plays an important role in business because they influence decisions, behaviors, and outcomes at multiple levels of analysis (Majluf and Navarrete in J Bus Ethics 100:567–579, 2011). The vast majority of papers on ethical business have been done in western countries. However, little research has analyzed organizational ethics from an Islamic perspective. Our paper fits into this framework. Our objective is to study how Islamic values influence organizational ethics. In order to answer our problematic, we established a Systematic Literature Review. First, data were collected from three academic databases. The data collected contained 441 documents. In order to select and assess articles, we used a protocol-based review technique called Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA). These guidelines present the process of identification, selection (inclusion/exclusion), and assessment of relevant studies. For this, we used Zotero software. Therefore, 54 full-text articles were available for final review. Two types of analyzes were carried out through NVivo software: quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis. The quantitative analysis was performed in order to have a general vision concerning the publications on Islam and Ethical Organization included in this study and their contents. Thus, we have realized a descriptive analysis of the data and a word cloud analysis. However, the qualitative analysis of the database was conducted through thematic analysis, with the aim to identify the main themes related to Islamic values and organizational ethics. After three cycles of coding, we extracted four themes: (1) Islamic Business Ethics; (2) Islamic Ethical Climate. (3) Islam-based-CSR; and (4) Islamic Financial Institution (IFI).