Detangling Value: A study into the benefits of using in-house CSR expertise compared with the benefits of using CSR consultancy expertise
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 predomi...
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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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| spelling | nottingham-210502017-10-12T12:14:27Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21050/ Detangling Value: A study into the benefits of using in-house CSR expertise compared with the benefits of using CSR consultancy expertise MacCarthy, Jennifer 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. 2007 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21050/1/07MAlixjm8.pdf MacCarthy, Jennifer (2007) Detangling Value: A study into the benefits of using in-house CSR expertise compared with the benefits of using CSR consultancy expertise. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) corporate social responsibility consultancy |
| spellingShingle | corporate social responsibility consultancy MacCarthy, Jennifer Detangling Value: A study into the benefits of using in-house CSR expertise compared with the benefits of using CSR consultancy expertise |
| title | Detangling Value:
A study into the benefits of using in-house CSR expertise
compared with the benefits of using CSR consultancy
expertise |
| title_full | Detangling Value:
A study into the benefits of using in-house CSR expertise
compared with the benefits of using CSR consultancy
expertise |
| title_fullStr | Detangling Value:
A study into the benefits of using in-house CSR expertise
compared with the benefits of using CSR consultancy
expertise |
| title_full_unstemmed | Detangling Value:
A study into the benefits of using in-house CSR expertise
compared with the benefits of using CSR consultancy
expertise |
| title_short | Detangling Value:
A study into the benefits of using in-house CSR expertise
compared with the benefits of using CSR consultancy
expertise |
| title_sort | detangling value:
a study into the benefits of using in-house csr expertise
compared with the benefits of using csr consultancy
expertise |
| topic | corporate social responsibility consultancy |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21050/ |