Taking stock of CSR & SMEs in development

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dc.contributor.author	Jeppesen, Soeren
dc.date.accessioned	2009-11-16
dc.date.accessioned	2009-11-16T12:29:18Z
dc.date.available	2009-11-16T12:29:18Z
dc.date.issued	2009-11-16T12:29:18Z
dc.identifier.isbn	9788792114174
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7947
dc.description.abstract	The international literature on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has focused on large rms, in the North, mostly applying normative, universal and positivist approaches. However, over the last 10-15 years increasing attention has been directed towards micro, small and medium-sized rms, SMEs. While the focus on CSR in SMEs mainly has been con ned to a Northern context, limited, though growing, focus has been on CSR in SMEs in a Southern or developing country context. The paper assesses the contributions on CSR and SMEs in Development. It does so by presenting three dominant and con icting perceptions of SMEs in the CSR literature (SMEs as problems vs. SMEs as innovators; SMEs as miniature versions of large rms vs. SMEs in their own right; SMEs responding to voluntary approaches vs. SMEs responding to state regulation). The paper then takes stock of what we know about CSR, SMEs and Development (concerning environmental issues; labour, safety & health; global supply chains; and nally CSR and SMEs in Clusters) and what we don’t know. The paper nally argues in favour of a critical research based on a) focus on Southern perspectives, b) SMEs in their own right, and c) application of context-sensitive approaches. It advocates the key issues of a critical CSR in SMEs in Development research agenda should be focused at the interface between SME, CSR and Development issues. It presents four main parts or areas of such an agenda and three suggestions concerning policy initiatives, before it brie y concludes on the changes that the eld has undergone over the 10-15 years observed.	en_US
dc.format.extent	27 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	BDS Working Paper series;9
dc.title	Taking stock of CSR & SMEs in development	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt09nov16 nijemo	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Interkulturel Kommunikation og Ledelse	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	IKL	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Intercultural Communication and Management	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	IKL	en_US
dc.idnumber	9788792114174	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2009	en_US