Corporate social responsibility in Turkey: A comparative research about current situation and future expectations

Abstract

Today, the approach that the organizations can not act only with their commercial objectives but at the same time they need to contribute to the social and economical development of the society has been adopted. The idea that the organizations which do not consider their organizational responsibilities as an inseparable part of their work strategy, will inevitably fail whatever the circumstances are, is now becoming a widespread conviction. When approaching the issue from that point of view, it would not be wrong to state that social responsibilities are indispensable implementations of the organizations of our day. Organizational social responsibility has become one of the most talked about, discussed implementations area of business life today. The social responsibility of the organizations are evaluated as a responsibility formed for the benefit of the society, that contributes to the betterment of the human life, without harming the society in all activities from production to consumption. In this article, a detailed evaluation about CSR has been made first, and then a research has been made directed to find out about the current situation and future expectations about CSR in Turkey. The results has been compared with 2007 Resport on European CSR Survey and the data obtained were evaluated with SPSS programme. © Common Ground, Cisil Sohodol Bir, All Rights Reserved. © 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.