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KMO 2017: Knowledge Management in Organizations pp 203–213Cite as

Global Studies About the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

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At present, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an imperative topic of modern firms’ research theories, and the enhancement of CSR practices globally is remarkable. However the association among CSR and the other factors is still ambiguous. This research reviewed the development of notion of CSR practices among the Western, Asian, Middle East and African countries. According to the recent literatures, the results of studies show that the CSR situation in Middle East countries is very optimistic.

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Mansour, S. (2017). Global Studies About the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In: Uden, L., Lu, W., Ting, IH. (eds) Knowledge Management in Organizations. KMO 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 731. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62698-7_18

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