Research Proposal: Corporate Responsibility, Ethics, and Growth

This research proposal explores the relationship between corporate responsibility, ethics, and accountability and their impact on business growth. It identifies the problem of assessing whether these factors contribute to business success. The research aims to determine how corporate responsibility, ethics, and accountability are beneficial for business growth within a corporate organization. The significance lies in providing insights for corporate decision-making to improve business processes. The research question focuses on the influence of corporate responsibility, ethics, and accountability on business outcomes. A qualitative research methodology, utilizing secondary data from peer-reviewed journals, is proposed, with discourse analysis for data analysis. Ethical considerations include using publicly available data and avoiding bias. Key literature highlights the importance of social responsibility, ethics, and accountability for business growth. The proposal includes a proposed timetable and Gantt chart for project management.

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Table of Contents
Title of the Research:.................................................................................................................2
Problem Identification:...............................................................................................................2
Research Aims and Objectives:.................................................................................................2
Significance of the Research:.....................................................................................................3
Research Question:.....................................................................................................................3
Proposed Research Methodology:..............................................................................................3
Ethical Consideration:................................................................................................................4
Key Literature:...........................................................................................................................4
Proposed Timetable:...................................................................................................................6
References:.................................................................................................................................8

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Title of the Research:
How Corporate responsibility, ethics and accountability is useful for the business
growth of a corporate organization.
Problem Identification:
In this case, with the current research the main problem that is associated is whether
the corporate responsibility, ethics and accountability is capable enough for proper growth of
a business of the corporate organization. Thus, in this it is very much important to assess that
how these corporate responsibilities, accountability and the ethics become useful for the
business growth. If the corporate responsibility, accountability and the ethics does not
provide any value to the business, then there should be no business growth due to the
corporate responsibility, accountability and ethics. So, this research will be assessing the
positive effects of the corporate social responsibility, ethics and accountability over the
business aspects.
Research Aims and Objectives:
The main aim of this research is identifying how the corporate responsibility, ethics
and the accountability is useful in the context of business growth for a corporate organization.
By performing this research several of several of important aspects will be achieved
which are main objective of this research. In the following section these objectives are
discussed.
 The influences of corporate responsibility, accountability and ethics over the
businesses will be assessed.
 Why the corporate responsibility, accountability and the ethics is one of the important
aspects of the businesses will be identified.

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Significance of the Research:
The current research is quite significant in this context as it provides an insight of the
corporate responsibility, ethics and accountability for the business processes to the corporate
organization. So, by performing this research, the corporate organization will be able to
understand how these corporate responsibility, ethics and accountability impacts the business
so that the corporate organizations will be able to make appropriate decisions for improving
their overall business processes and the overall growth of the organization.
Research Question:
The main research question is:
 How corporate responsibility, ethics and accountability impacts the businesses of the
corporate organizations and helps in overall growth of the business?
Proposed Research Methodology:
For this particular research, qualitative type of research methodology will be utilized
in this context. The qualitative type of research is the best option interpreting, describing and
gaining an in-depth knowledge of some specific area (Brannen 2017). Within qualitative type
of research for the collection of data secondary type of data collection method has been
chosen in this context. This secondary data collection is a typical type of research
methodology in which the research is carried out by the use of already existing data (Johnston
2017). Here, the existing data are collected and summarized so that overall effectiveness of
the research can be improved.
In this aspect, there are various of sources are available from which secondary type of
data can be collected. These sources include research reports, surveys and online websites. In

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this case, only the peer reviewed journals will be considered as the secondary source of data
so that high quality data can be achieved.
For the data analysis qualitative type of data analysis will be used. Actually, a textual
analysis will be done for performing this research. Specifically, the discourse analysis will be
done for the data analysis purpose.
In this case, the qualitative type of research methodology has been proposed as
through this type of research deep analysis of the gathered data can be done. Also, as the
secondary type of data will be collected in this context the cost of overall research will be
significantly low (Clarke and Cossette 2016). In this research it needs to be analysed that how
corporate responsibility, ethics and accountability helps the businesses in their growth. As
this is a secondary type of research relevant and high-quality data only be analysed and for
this reason, in this research methodology only peer reviewed journals have been selected.
Ethical Consideration:
There are some ethical considerations also which need to be maintained during
performing the research. These ethical considerations are discussed in the following section.
 While the data collection will be done for the research it is very much important to
ensure that only the publicly available data is taken into consideration. Any type of
confidential data should not be used for the research without proper authorization.
 Also, while the data is being collected there should not any type of biasness as it can
modify the actual outcome of the research.
Key Literature:
According to the authors Grayson and Hodges (2017), social responsibility is one of
the important aspects for the businesses. If an organization is responsible from the social

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aspects the organization will be able to easily build its brand image. In this aspect, the social
responsibility of the organization can also help to boost the morale of the employees. Now, a
good brand image and high morale of the employees, both are crucial factors for the overall
growth of the organization. In this way, corporate responsibility is useful for the overall
growth of the businesses in a corporate organization.
As per the authors Crane et al. (2019), ethics are important for the business as it
makes good business sense. In this aspect for ensuring proper ethics, implantation of the code
of ethics is the best way. Having a proper ethics within the organization helps in rapid growth
of the organization as the code of ethics helps in treating the employees well, performing
honest business dealings and becoming socially responsible. All of these factors contribute in
growth of the business. In this way, ethics can help for the overall business growth.
According to the author Rezaee (2017), accountability is one of the important aspects
for the businesses. Proper accountability for the businesses ensures that all of the employees
shows up themselves for their respective shift timings, properly meeting their task deadlines
and are aware about their own roles. In this way every employee of the organization becomes
responsible for fulfilling their own duties. All of these will automatically reflect a positive
impact over the business growth. In this way, accountability will be helping for the growth of
the businesses.

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Proposed Timetable:
(Figure 1: Project Timetable)
(Source: Created by the Author)
(Figure 2: Gantt Chart)

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(Source: Created by the Author)

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References:
Brannen, J., 2017. Mixing methods: Qualitative and quantitative research. Routledge.
Clarke, S.P. and Cossette, S., 2016. Secondary analysis: Theoretical, methodological, and
practical considerations. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research Archive, 32(3).
Crane, A., Matten, D., Glozer, S. and Spence, L., 2019. Business ethics: Managing corporate
citizenship and sustainability in the age of globalization. Oxford University Press.
Grayson, D. and Hodges, A., 2017. Corporate social opportunity!: Seven steps to make
corporate social responsibility work for your business. Routledge.
Johnston, M.P., 2017. Secondary data analysis: A method of which the time has
come. Qualitative and quantitative methods in libraries, 3(3), pp.619-626.
Rezaee, Z., 2017. Business sustainability: Performance, compliance, accountability and
integrated reporting. Routledge.