Purpose
This paper is to discuss social respsonsibility of SMEs in Taiwan through ISO 26000. The main purpose of the study is to explore the relationship between Prin-ciples of social responsibility of cognition, implementation and self-regulation ISO 26000 from the behavior of perspective.
Study Design
This paper is base on framework of ISO 26000. The scales of "Principles of social responsibility," "Political Pressure", "Economic Attitude", "Fundamental prac-tices of social responsibility" and ¡§Social responsibility core subjects¡¨ are developed. This study maps the relation between the scals through a Taiwan survey of 266 SMEs. Using factor analysis, path analysis and mean tests for statistical analysis.
Findings
SMEs in Taiwan have highly recognized carrying out SR. The study finds that SMEs have higher awareness of social responsibility, their implementations of social responsibility are better.
Implications and contributions
This paper draws the linkage between ¡§awareness of social responsibility, ¡§so-cial responsibility behavior¡¨ and ¡§self-regulatory ISO 26000¡¨. The relationship is positive. This provides the government a way to promote social responsibility.
ISO 26000 is the most influential initiative in CSR area in recent years, this study adopted the structure of social responsibility indicators, can provide business information and make their awareness of social responsibility better.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0824110-003142 |
| Date | 24 August 2010 |
| Creators | Yuan, Chih-hung |
| Contributors | Stephen D. Tsai, Lie-chien Lin, Yen-Chun Jim Wu |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0824110-003142 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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