A RESEARCH ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PERCEPTIONS OF MARITIME FACULTY STUDENTS

Abstract

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) concept has attracted considerable interest in recent years by researchers and practitioners. Due to an increased awareness of the need for CSR this study examines corporate social responsibility perceptions of maritime faculty students (MFS). MFS were chosen for this research since these students are usually employed by an international organization and have diffuculties in interpreting ethical issues in a business context because of cultural differences. Owing to the multicultural nature of shipboard work, it is important for every seafarer to be ethically sensitive toward shared values and virtues worldwide. Self-reported data was collected through a structured questionnaire from 120 undergraduates in Maritime Faculty of Kocaeli University. Students consider that “legal responsibilities” as the most important CSR component, followed by the“economic responsibilities”, “ethical responsibilities” and “philanthropic responsibilities”. Furthermore, findings show that women gave higher priority than men to two components of CSR including “legal responsibilities” and “philanthropic responsibilities”.

Keywords

• Corporate social responsibility,economic responsibilities,legal responsibilities,ethical responsibilities

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