| Summary: | Abstract
The topic of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an area with an increasing
breadth of literature. However, literature regarding how CSR expertise is sourced for
developing CSR projects and programmes within companies is distinctly weak. This
study takes, arguably, the two most predominant forms of CSR expertise, in-house
CSR expertise and CSR consultancies, and investigates what value these different
types of expertise offer in sourcing for CSR activities. Beyond this, suggestions of
when these different forms of expertise are used are discussed. This study also
considers if there is a particular formula regarding how CSR expertise is sourced for
different projects and programmes. This investigation is based largely on primary
research including interviews with CSR representatives from companies that qualified
into Business in the Community ��Top 100 Companies that Count in the Corporate
Responsibility Index 2006 and interviews with directors of a CSR consultancy.
Through this research this study has been able to identify some of the key values of
both in-house and CSR consultancy expertise are in the eyes of those who carry out
CSR day to day in the business world. It has also been able to shed some light on how
these different types of expertise fit together and therefore provide some explanation
of how sourcing decisions regarding CSR expertise are made.
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