Corporate Social Responsibility in Saudi Arabian businesses

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Abstract
The benevolent paradigm of CSR has been transformed into a strategic tool for the business
enterprises. However, the impact and relevance in CSR has not set foot adequately in the
developing countries. In this regard, as an emerging economy, Saudi Arabia has been taken for
this research with the sole focus fixed on its CSR activities in business. Therefore, an exploratory
approach is using with the association of data collection from the Secondary data. A qualitative
data analysis technique is the core of this research with adequate emphasis on the 5 companies
from different sectors in Saudi Arabia. The expected outcome will be found as lack of adequate
CSR measures that those companies are applying in their business orientation.

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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Overview................................................................................................................................3
1.2 Problem Statement.................................................................................................................4
1.3 Research rationale..................................................................................................................4
1.4 Research aim..........................................................................................................................4
1.5 Research objective.................................................................................................................4
1.6 Research question..................................................................................................................5
1.9 Structure.................................................................................................................................5
2.0 Literature review........................................................................................................................5
2.1 Defining CSR.........................................................................................................................5
2.2 Changing agenda of CSR.......................................................................................................6
2.3 CSR in the context of Middle East region.............................................................................7
2.4 CSR in business in Saudi Arabia...........................................................................................7
3.0 Methodology..............................................................................................................................8
4.0 Expected outcome......................................................................................................................9
5.0 Timeframe................................................................................................................................10
6.0 Reference.................................................................................................................................11

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Topic: Corporate Social Responsibility in Saudi Arabian businesses
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Overview
Corporate social responsibility is considered to be one of the major characteristics that
present day organisations are followed in all over organisational activities. It is ascertain that the
notion of corporate social responsibility has also been changed greatly in order to procure a
responsible stance towards the society and environment. Moreover, the purpose is practicing
CSR in business is further prescribed as an attitude to build up the image and values of the
organisation so that it will encourage and attract the shareholders and the stakeholders
effectively. In the context of the global sustainability efforts, it can be argued that UN’s Global
Compact Principles, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Labour Standards and ISO 26000
guidelines are the mainstay to formulate an effective sustainable measure for the business
organisations (cla.auburn.edu, 2019). According to the research of itopf.org (2019) in the
developing and emerging countries the CSR activities are started in a late and slower pace and it
is still within the nutshell in some of the countries because of the lack of initiatives taken by the
government. As a matter of fact, the business organisations in some developing countries are still
meddling with the old school form of business orientation where the role of the business
organisations is stick with only profit. As a result of that it becomes a significant measure for this
research to identify the initiatives that the business organisations have taken in the scenario of
Saudi Arabia (Hafiz, 2019).