Are Belgian retail consumers considering Islamic finance loans solutions in function of their ethical profile? An opinion survey about the causality between ethical profiles and interest for those solutions.

Within the management science discipline, this article is a first exploratory study of a research about Islamic finance. This article aims to explore consumers’ needs in terms of credit solutions and if personal ethics impact the decision to engage in Islamic finance credit solutions. In order to build the problematic, a couple of concepts such as Islamic finance and ethics are introduced. Only short definitions will be presented here whereas deeper discussions will be addressed in ulterior articles. Furthermore, defining what a consumer is and how their satisfaction is obtained is key to de... Mehr ...