საქართველოს სტრატეგიული კვლევებისა და განვითარების ცენტრი Centre for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia

1. Corporate Social Responsibility in Georgia: Companies’ and public perceptions საქართველოს სტრატეგიული კვლევებისა და განვითარების ცენტრი Centre for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia გლობალური შეთანხმება - Global Compact

2. 1. Role of Business within Society - Public Expectation and Business Perspectives

3. The Role of Business in Development Public Expectations Business Perspectives

4. In addition to growth and profit maximizing, should companies care for addressing the issues affecting environment and society at large? Public Expectations Businesses Perspectives

5. 2. CSR in Practice- Public and Business Perspectives

6. Companies should only care for profit maximizationVs.CSR is voluntary obligation that shall be assumed by Business Perception of the Population Perception ofBusinesses

7. Expectations Vs. Perception of Reality(Role of Business in addressing social-economic and environment issues) Perception of the Population Perception ofBusinesses

8. 3. Priority Areas and Forms of CSR

9. Priority Areas of Implementing Socially Responsible Activities (Public and Business perspectives) Addressing social issues Support economic growth of the country Address environment issues Care for employees

10. Public perspectives on CSR priority areas (spontaneous answers)

11. Socially responsible business practices during the past three years

12. Expectation to Perception Gap for the Forms of Corporate Giving Forms of Corporate Giving Demanded Perception of the Population Forms of Corporate Giving Practiced -Perception of the Population

13. 4. Motives for Practicing CSR

14. Public Perception of Motives for implementing CSR (spontaneous answers)

15. The factors that determine good reputation of the companies referred by the respondents (spontaneous answers)- Perception of the population

16. Impact of SCR on the positive image of the company - Perception of Businesses

17. Advantages of Socially Responsible Companies (assessment on 10 point scale) -Perception of Businesses

18. 5. Incentives and Constraints to CSR

19. Stimuli for CSR - Perception of the population

20. Current impediments and constraints to CSR in Georgia - Perception of Businesses(as revealed by qualitative research) External Constraints: Absence of support and encouragement from the government for socially responsible companies; Absence of the tax incentives for socially responsible companies; Internal Constraints : Lack of the similar experience; Lack of awareness and knowledge about forms of implementing socially responsible projects; Lack of experience and knowledge needed to properly identify priorities, plan appropriately and manage socially responsible activities.

21. Lack of knowledge and experience in the proper management of public-benefit activities has been identified as one of the major obstacles for the development of CSR Practices of monitoring implementation and evaluating results of public benefit activities by companies

22. 6. Social Partnership

23. Evaluation of Social Partnership with various institutions

24. Advantages of social partnership with government bodies (Business perspective): Proper identification of the priority areas for CSR programs (as the government is considered to be better informed about the most acute problems in the country); Involvment in the solution of the acute problems (when governmet lacks the funds to cope independently with these problems); Distribution of functions; Possibility to implement large-scale progects and their effective management.

25. Experience of Social partnership with various institutions

26. Future plans regarding social partnership with various institutions

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