Corporate Social Responsibility and the SMEs – Case Study from the South Bohemian Region

Abstract

Corporate Social Responsibility plays a significant role in business in term of competitiveness, innovation, and development for a long time. The importance of Corporate Social Responsibility is emphasized by the European Union in the European sustainable development strategy. Most of the researches focus on Corporate Social Responsibility of large enterprises. However, the backbone of the Czech and European economy is made up of small and mediumsized enterprises. Even though, that SMEs has been started to implement Corporate Social Responsibility activities in their business, there are not many researches on the Corporate Social Responsibility activities of SMEs. Therefore, the author’s research focuses on the Corporate Social Responsibility activities of SMEs in the South Bohemian Region. The paper analysis the types of Corporate Social Responsibility activities using by SMEs in the South Bohemian Region. The author’s research tries to reveal whether there are statistically significant differences in access to Corporate Social Responsibility activities of companies based on their size or other parameters.