Corporate social responsibility: a study of Kazakhstan corporate sector

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajasekhara Mouly Potluri ◽  
Yespayeva Batima ◽  
Kunev Madiyar
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Corporate Social

scholarly journals Empowering Professional Competence and Moral Responsibility for Corporate Sustainability: Insights from Industry and University Strategic Alliance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miftachul Huda ◽  
Roslee Ahmad ◽  
Mohd Aderi Che Noh ◽  
Azmil Hashim ◽  
Mohd Hairy Ibrahim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Corporate Social

The stability of corporate sector is definitely related to the prominent firms’ conditions, where both inner and outer factor played a significant role in enhancing the value proportion in sustaining the existence. Although many was conducted in the outer part in the corporate sector, however, less attention was apparently being given to the internal point where professional and moral basis is needed for further exploration in giving insights into corporate sustainability. This chapter attempts to examine the insightful value of professional competence and moral responsibility to give the significant point in disseminating the enhancement of corporate sustainability. The literature review was carefully conducted from the referred articles: journals, books and conference proceedings on the related topic. The finding reveals that the insightful value of professional competence and moral responsibility in advancing the corporate sustainability could be achieved in particular point through industry and university alliance. The basis of this alliance of both could give insights into incorporating the particular model of strategic partnership along with the corporate social responsibility. Engaged through the higher education (HE) together with firm involvement, this aim refers to advance in achieving the quality balance on corporate social responsibility. As such, this study is expected to contribute in advancing the research development agenda on enhancing strategic partnership assigned between professional competences together with moral responsibility.

scholarly journals Transforming corporate governance through effective corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social entrepreneurship orientation in Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seeprata Parajuli ◽  
Srijana Rajbhandari ◽  
Ashok Joshi ◽  
Sujan K.C. ◽  
Udbodh Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
General Situation ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Corporate Policies ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Corporate Social

Background: Different studies and development interventions have con­firmed that socio-economic progress of a society is largely influenced by the exhibited level of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social entrepre­neurship orientation taken into account. This reality may serve in the same magnitude in context of present Nepalese corporate sector. However, differ­ent studies indicate that only a limited number of organizations are involved in such activities in the present context of Nepal. On the other hand, truthful participation with corporate social responsibility (CSR) related initiatives has been made mandatory in many countries thereby governing the CSR initiatives by defined rules and regulations. Objectives: The thrust of this paper was to understand the magnitude and direction of CSR and social entrepreneurial orientation of the Nepalese corporate sector, its current state, issues, challenges and ways forward. Methods: Accomplished on qualitative paradigm of study as a blend of guided literature reviews, seminar discourses and general situation ob­servation and analyses, it may be claimed as a developmental discourse. Results: The Nepalese corporate sector has been positively inclined to­wards enhancement of brand image, reputation and societal relationship by means of truthful engagement in CSR and societal entrepreneurship initiatives. Conclusions: The attainment of socio-economic well-being can be wit­nessed by implementing effective CSR and social entrepreneurship ini­tiatives. Insufficient preparedness of the public agencies with lack of fol­low-up, financing crises, traditional corporate policies and procedures have been the impeding issues affecting the design and execution of CSR and social entrepreneurship initiatives at present in Nepal. Implications: Required strict policy regulations at governing level and ef­fective programming at implementation at corporate or industry level.

scholarly journals Effects of International Exposure on Corporate Social Responsibility of the Chinese Corporate Sector: The Moderating Role of CEO Duality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Radhika Ravi
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Ceo Duality ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Moderating Role

<p>International exposure of a firm into new environments is one of the most important paths to firm growth. It provides growth opportunities and learning, and poses challenges of managing uncertainties of the new institutional environment, and demands of diverse domestic and international stakeholders. Despite the abundance of research on the effects of international exposure of a firm on its performance, the effects on corporate social responsibility (CSR) are not well understood. In addition to examining the direct effects of the international exposure of a firm on CSR activities in the home country, this study also examines the moderating role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) duality in the association between international exposure of a firm and CSR activities in the home country.  Drawing from institutional theory and agency theory, this study argues that international exposure of a firm leads to a decrease in CSR activities in the home country. It further posits that CEO duality also negatively affects CSR activities in the home country. Further, the proposed moderation hypotheses argue that the negative effects of international exposure of a firm on CSR activities in the home country are stronger for firms with CEO duality as compared to non-duality. The proposed hypotheses are tested with data from 240 publicly listed Chinese firms between 2008 and 2016, consisting of 1920 firm-years. The panel data is analysed using Linear Mixed Modelling (LMM) with the SPSS software. The findings support all the proposed hypotheses.  This study makes three key contributions. Firstly, the study uses the institutional theory and agency theory to provide evidence for the negative effects of international exposure of a firm and CEO duality on CSR activities in the home country. Secondly, it enhances the understanding of how CEO duality acts as a boundary condition between international exposure of a firm and CSR relationships. Thirdly, it contributes to the emerging economy multinational enterprises literature by enhancing understanding of the proposed relationships in the context of the Chinese corporate sector.</p>

Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Economies

2020 ◽  
pp. 263-273
Author(s):  
Ayesha Khatun ◽  
Sajad Nabi Dar
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Corporate Social

India, a developing and the second largest populated country in the world after China, is characterized by many burning issues like unemployment, low literacy, lack of modern medical facilities mainly in rural areas, lack of connectivity of the rural areas with the mainland cities, and the like. Although government has been working on all these issues and has been very much successful, it is not possible for the government alone to solve all the issues in such a vast populated country in a desired period of time. Amidst such situation, it is the corporate sector that can play a bigger role in the development of the society through its CSR initiatives. This chapter attempts to study corporate social responsibility, its role and issues in a developing country with special reference to India. The findings show that lack of understanding, inadequately trained personnel, lack of proper policy making, lack of participation of the local people, and so on affects the reach and effectiveness of CSR programs in India.

scholarly journals LINKING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)PRACTICES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS) IN INDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (09) ◽  
pp. 544-549
Author(s):  
Geetanjali Dangi Thakur ◽  
G.L. Puntambekar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Schedule Vii ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Corporate Social

India is a vast country with huge size of population and half of the population is living under poverty & inequality. Indias big share of population is struggling for basic amenities and there is a need of collaborative efforts of both government and corporate sector. In India Sustainable Development Goals (here after SDGs) and Corporate social Responsibility (hereafter CSR) are the most powerful tools to deal with social issues. CSR seems like a powerful framework for corporate sector to engage in achieving SDGs to a certain extent. In 2015 India adopted the 17 sustainable development goals with 169 targets and in 2014 CSR policy came with social initiatives. The idea behind linking CSR & SDGs is the thematic social sectors included in both of them.The activities which are included in schedule VII of companies act having lot of overlap with the thematic areas of sustainable development goals and thats why there has seen tremendous potential of both tools to develop a model for sustainable growth. Till date from 2014 to 2020 corporate sector contributed Rs. 59,505 cr. in CSR activities which are directly related to SDGs. So, this paper focus on the concept of leveraging CSR practices because working on CSR practices will ultimately help in achieving SDGs to higher extent.

scholarly journals Monitoring and evaluation of corporate social responsibility programmes in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-318
Author(s):  
Renitha Rampersad
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
South African ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Fiduciary Duty ◽  
The South ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

The South African corporate sector invests millions to support community development and social programs. One of the more fundamental issues about sustainability in a business context is the fact that directors have a fiduciary duty to take into account interests of those stakeholders other than investors/shareholders. This therefore places major importance on sustainability reporting through reports on governance, economic, social and environmental performance and is increasingly being regarded as a key form of stakeholder engagement, and the most accepted formal way of communicating measured outcomes to all stakeholders. A number of methodologies may exist for the development of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies or “how-to guides” for community engagement and investment, however, it lacks development in the field of CSR Programme Evaluation. Integrated approaches to the measurement thereof are still in expanding stages of development and statistical data and/or empirical evidence is lacking at this point. Trust and relationships take time to build but are valuable assets, therefore a company must show it has listened and acted in response to stakeholder concerns, this means that ongoing communication and reporting back to stakeholders is a very important component in any engagement strategy. It is therefore important for the corporate sector to not only evaluate the effectiveness of their CSR Programmes, but also to measure the impact on both their beneficiary communities and their business and subsequently on the Return on Investment (ROI). This paper will highlight a case of the South African corporate sectors attempts to evaluate its effectiveness and impact on beneficiary communities and how they quantify the impact of the investment through successful CSR interventions

scholarly journals Effects of International Exposure on Corporate Social Responsibility of the Chinese Corporate Sector: The Moderating Role of CEO Duality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Radhika Ravi
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Ceo Duality ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Moderating Role

<p>International exposure of a firm into new environments is one of the most important paths to firm growth. It provides growth opportunities and learning, and poses challenges of managing uncertainties of the new institutional environment, and demands of diverse domestic and international stakeholders. Despite the abundance of research on the effects of international exposure of a firm on its performance, the effects on corporate social responsibility (CSR) are not well understood. In addition to examining the direct effects of the international exposure of a firm on CSR activities in the home country, this study also examines the moderating role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) duality in the association between international exposure of a firm and CSR activities in the home country.  Drawing from institutional theory and agency theory, this study argues that international exposure of a firm leads to a decrease in CSR activities in the home country. It further posits that CEO duality also negatively affects CSR activities in the home country. Further, the proposed moderation hypotheses argue that the negative effects of international exposure of a firm on CSR activities in the home country are stronger for firms with CEO duality as compared to non-duality. The proposed hypotheses are tested with data from 240 publicly listed Chinese firms between 2008 and 2016, consisting of 1920 firm-years. The panel data is analysed using Linear Mixed Modelling (LMM) with the SPSS software. The findings support all the proposed hypotheses.  This study makes three key contributions. Firstly, the study uses the institutional theory and agency theory to provide evidence for the negative effects of international exposure of a firm and CEO duality on CSR activities in the home country. Secondly, it enhances the understanding of how CEO duality acts as a boundary condition between international exposure of a firm and CSR relationships. Thirdly, it contributes to the emerging economy multinational enterprises literature by enhancing understanding of the proposed relationships in the context of the Chinese corporate sector.</p>

Corporate political connection and corporate social responsibility disclosures

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 725-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin ◽  
Dessalegn Getie Mihret ◽  
Arifur Khan
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
The State ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Political Connection ◽  
Legitimacy Theory ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Csr Disclosure ◽  
Corporate Social

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the association of corporate political connection with the level of voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures to determine how the relationships between the state and the corporate sector influence CSR engagement. Design/methodology/approach Based on a neo-pluralist view of legitimacy theory, which conceptualizes the state as a concentration of power amenable to exploitation by the corporate sector, the study develops and empirically tests a hypothesis that CSR disclosures are inversely associated with political connection. A sample of 936 firm-year observations is used with data collected from annual reports of companies listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Bangladesh from 2005 to 2013. Findings Results indicate that corporate political connection is associated with reduced CSR disclosures. This finding suggests that the perceived need for CSR disclosures as a legitimation strategy diminishes for politically connected firms. The finding supports a neo-pluralist argument that political connection could enable firms to eschew stakeholder pressure associated with potential legitimacy threats originating from poor CSR performance. This conclusion challenges the pluralist view of legitimacy theory that considers the state as a neutral arbiter resolving conflict among stakeholder groups in society. Originality/value The study makes a significant contribution to the literature by developing a neo-pluralist theorization of voluntary CSR disclosures within legitimacy theory and empirically testing it. Because prior empirical CSR disclosure research is largely underpinned by the pluralistic conception of society, examining this phenomenon from a neo-pluralist perspective enables a more complete understanding of CSR disclosure behaviors of firms.

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