An application of Hofstede’s model to Islamic culture and finance

The current research work wants to analyze the role that Islamic Culture holds in social economic and financial relations in Shariah Compliant countries and in particular, there will be the evaluation, through the Geert Hofstede model, of how the values will be adopted in practices later on. Successively, through Hofstede’s classification, which identifies six cultural dimensions, we would like to observe how the cultural variables have an important role in Islamic Finance and how the latter, is closer and closer to Corporate Social Responsibility typical themes.