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Historical Development of Corporate Social Responsibility Concept in Kazakhstan

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In recent times, there has gained an increasing interest in corporate social responsibility concept initiatives have emerged in developing countries, in particular Kazakhstan. However, many of these studies investigate in the Western and Chinese context of CSR, preferring to rely on theories and hypotheses from studies undertaken developed countries. The Kazakhstani CSR initiatives include laws, and regulations, governmental instructions, non-governmental organizations standard guidance. We develop a historical CSR concept with chronological evaluation. Based on the social, economic, political-environments, with completely different legal systems and cultural influences. This paper contributes to extend mainly considering specific context, and stages of evaluation CSR.

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Nematullakyzy, U.Z., Zhou, X. (2018). Historical Development of Corporate Social Responsibility Concept in Kazakhstan. In: Yuan, H., Geng, J., Liu, C., Bian, F., Surapunt, T. (eds) Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence. GSKI 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 848. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0893-2_6

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