Corporate Social Responsibility And Strategic Planning In Haitian Telecommunications Companies

• Main Author: Sadrac Cenophat
• Other Authors: David C. Trott
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96538891100395051566

碩士 === 義守大學 === 管理學院管理碩博士班 === 100 === Social responsibility and business enterprises have been a growing focus amongst scholars for decades. Recent studies have shown that philanthropy, which is a component of corporate social responsibility (CSR), has a positive relationship with strategic management. For instance, Porter and Kramer (2002) asserted that “philanthropy can have a strong influence on creating a more productive and transparent environment for competition (p. 10). Werther and Chandler (2005) advocated that effective integration of philanthropy into the strategic planning may help business enterprises to maintain social legitimacy within the community. However, the predominance of studies and reports pertaining to philanthropy and CSR conducted in either developing or developed countries do not specifically address the business environment in the least developed countries. What has worked in Asia, in Europe or in United States may or may not work in Haiti. Indeed, this study provides a more specialized, more focused investigation of the interrelationships between philanthropy and Haitian telecommunications businesses. This relationship is investigated by in-depth analyses of the extent to which philanthropy (a) helps businesses to deal with both the formal and informal rules, (b) enables businesses to influence some variables in the industry and (c) enhances firms’ resources such as human resources in the long-run. This study will investigate whether or not it can be taken for granted that implementing good philanthropic actions necessarily lead to success in one’s industry.