caa a22 4500 605486301 CHVBK 20210128100445.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2306-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2306-5 The Influence of Christian Religiosity on Managerial Decisions Concerning the Environment [Elektronische Daten] [Jinhua Cui, Hoje Jo, Manuel Velasquez] The issue of management's relations to the environment has received a significant amount of attention in the literature on corporate social responsibility. Yet the influence of religion on managers' environmental decisions has until now remained unexamined despite its known importance. In this article, we examine the empirical association between religion—primarily Christianity—and the environmental practices a firm's management undertakes by investigating their OLS, principal component, simultaneous, and endogenous effects. Employing a large and extensive U.S. sample, we find a negative association between the environmental practices initiated by a firm's managers and the religiosity of the surrounding community, after controlling for various firm and demographic characteristics. In addition, after mitigating endogeneity with the dynamic system generalized method of moment, we still find an inverse association between religiosity and environmental-friendly decisions of management. We interpret these results as providing some support for the "dominion hypothesis” that claims Christian beliefs discourage environmental concern, but not for the "stewardship hypothesis” that implies that Christianity encourages people to "exercise a responsible stewardship over nature.” Nevertheless, additional analysis shows Christian groups differ significantly in how each influences managers' environmental decisions. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Religiosity nationallicence Environment nationallicence Stewardship nationallicence Dominion nationallicence Lynn White nationallicence Christianity nationallicence Cui Jinhua School of Business, Korea University, Seoul, Korea aut Jo Hoje Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, 95053-0388, Santa Clara, CA, USA aut Velasquez Manuel Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, 95053-0388, Santa Clara, CA, USA aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 132/1(2015-11-01), 203-231 0167-4544 132:1<203 2015 132 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2306-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2306-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cui Jinhua School of Business, Korea University, Seoul, Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jo Hoje Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, 95053-0388, Santa Clara, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Velasquez Manuel Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, 95053-0388, Santa Clara, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 132/1(2015-11-01), 203-231 0167-4544 132:1<203 2015 132 10551