Book Reviews : A. de Riencourt, The Soul of India. Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1986. H.S.R. Kao, D. Sinha and Ng Sek-Hong (eds), Effective Organizations and Social Values. New Delhi: Sage, 1995. C.G. Krishna, Corporate Social Responsibility in India—A Study of Management Atti tudes. Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1992

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-91
Author(s):  
Bengt Gustavsson
Author(s):  
Erhan Boğan ◽  
Saadet Zafer Kavacık ◽  
Mehmet Sarıışık

In recent years, corporate social responsibility, which comprises economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic responsibilities, has become important concept to build good relations between business and stakeholders and to gain competitive advantage over its rivals. Moreover, it has a positive impact on stakeholder’s (for example; employees, customers, investors) attitudes and behaviors toward business. The main aim of this study is to determine opinions and perceptions of students who study management license toward corporate social responsibility. The research data is gathered from final year students of Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Faculty of Management with a used scale. 251 surveys are used in the research. The findings obtained from research have put forth that management faculty students who are future manager candidates are in opinion and perception of covering respectively economic, philanthropic, legal and ethical responsibilities in their decision-making activities. In addition, the students have listed the company’s four most important stakeholders as community, customers, employees and shareholders. Also corporate social responsibility has been emerged by students as a definition of benefit society, compliance with ethical values, volunteer activities and respect for social values.


2021 ◽  
pp. 026272802110348
Author(s):  
Kishore Thomas John

Prabhakaran Paleri, Corporate Social Responsibility: Concepts, Cases and Trends (New Delhi: Cengage Limited, 2020), xx + 443 pp.


Author(s):  
Reena Shyam

Over the years Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a concept comparatively new to India, is rapidly picking up pace.  CSR has become a fundamental business practice and has gained much attention from the management of large international companies. It facilitates the alignment of business operations with social values. CSR is deemed as a point of convergence of various initiatives aimed at ensuring socio-economic development of the community. Acknowledging the fact that mainstreaming CSR into businesses could be instrumental in delivering societal value, especially in a developing country like India, this paper specifically aims at providing an understanding of concept of CSR and analyses the development of CSR in India. It highlights the policies governing CSR in India and discusses the cases of CSR initiatives in Indian firms including SMEs role in CSR. There are several challenges facing CSR in India and the paper provides suggestions to overcome them and accelerate the CSR initiatives in India.


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