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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR): A STUDY ON FACTORS EFFECTING CSR IMPLEMENTATION AND CSR DISCLOSURE IN VIETNAM-CASE AND EVIDENCE BY GIANG THI YEN Graduation Project Submitted to the Department of Business Studies, HELP University College, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Business (Accounting) Hons October 2011 1 Declaration of originally and word count DECLARATION I declare that this graduation project is based on my original work except for quotations, theories and citations which have been duly acknowledged. I also declare that it has not been previously or concurrently submitted for any other course/degrees at HELP University College or other institutions. The word count is 10,220 --------------------------Giang Thi Yen Date: 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, I would like to thank Dr. Pham Duc Hieu for his direction, assistance and guidance throughout my project. He guides meaningful suggestions and constructive ideas for me to complete this thesis. Secondly, I special thank to all managers, employees and consumers of both companies Long Tech Precision and NHABE Company in Vietnam. They helped me a lot in completely survey about CSR awareness and its impact on the Vietnam business nowadays. Without their co-operation, I could not be able to collect fully information to support the research. Finally, I would like to express my sincere to all my friends for their encouragements and contributions which have been important for my presentation of this project. 3 A STUDY ON FACTORS AFFECTING CSR IMPLEMENTATION AND CSR DISCLOSURE IN VIETNAM CASE AND EVIDENCES BY GIANG THI YEN OCTOBER 2011 Supervisor: Dr. Pham Duc Hieu Abstract: This project aims to examine how managers and employees from different Vietnamese companies represent their knowledge and their perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), also the behavior of Vietnamese consumers towards CSR positive. The resulting framework based on an expansion of qualitative research to clear the CSR performance of each situation. It also provides evidence that there are large proportions of managers and employees express a highly positive attitude towards CSR and its reporting but consumer’s perception is rather low in statements and questionnaire. It stills a discrepancy between what managers say they do and what action they do. However, the willingness to learn and gain more understanding about CSR found from survey, it will make the bright future of Vietnam CSR implementation and CSR disclosure. 4 Table of Contents Declaration of originality and word count…………………………………………2 Acknowledgement…………………………………………………………………3 Abstract…………………………………………………………………………….4 Table of contents…………………………………………………………………...5 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION……………………………………….........9 1.1 The important of research…………………………………………………….10 1.2 Problem statement…………………………………………………………….12 1.3 Objective of research…………………………………………………………12 1.4 Range of research……………………………………………………………..13 1.5 Research methods…………………………………………………………….14 1.6 Structure of research………………………………………………………….15 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW…………………………………..16 2.1 Theory framework…………………………………………………………..16 2.1.1 What is CSR?.................................................................................................16 2.1.2 Stakeholder theory………………………………………………………….17 2.1.3 CSR implementation and CSR disclosure…………………………………..18 2.2 Research and Studies……………………………………………………….21 2.2.1 The factors effecting on CSR implementation and CSR disclosure………..21 2.2.2 Business ethics in Vietnam…………………………………………………23 2.3 Research Summary…………………………………………………………25 5 CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY………………………….26 3.1 Overview of Methodology…………………………………………………..26 3.1.1 Quantitative research……………………………………………………....26 3.1.2 Qualitative research………………………………………………………..27 3.1.3 Conclusion………………………………………………………………….28 3.2 Data collection……………………………………………………………....28 CHAPTER 4: RESULTS AND ANALYSIS…………………………….....31 4.1 Results and discussion from survey………………………………………..31 4.1.1 Sampling……………………………………………………………………31 4.1.2 Description of results……………………………………………………….33 4.1.3 Result from managements’ survey………………………………………….35 4.1.4 Results from employees’ survey…………………………………………….37 4.1.5 Results from consumers’ survey……………………………………………45 4.2 Summary…………………………………………………………………….48 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION………….49 5.1 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………...49 5.2 Recommendation……………………………………………………………51 5.3 Limitations and Future Development……………………………………...53 5.3.1 Limitations………………………………………………………………….53 5.3.2 Future Development………………………………………………………..55 6 REFERENCES…………………………………………………………………..56 APPENDICES…………………………………………………………………...59 7 LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Table 1: Age……………………………………………………………………....33 Table 2: Gender…………………………………………………………………..34 Table 3: Position of people response……………………………………………..34 Table 4: Distribution of manager survey towards statements…………………….36 Table 5: Descriptive statistics from manager’s survey…………………………...36 Table 6: Question 1 –Result and Analysis………………………………………..39 Table 7: Question 2 –Result and Analysis………………………………………..40 Table 8: Question 3 –Result and Analysis………………………………………..42 Table 9: Question 4 –Result and Analysis………………………………………..43 Table 10: Question 5 –Result and Analysis……………………………………....45 Table 11: Distribution of consumer towards statements…………………………45 Table 12: Description statistics from consumer’s survey………………………...47 8 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CSR Corporate Social Responsibility VCCI Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry WTO World Trade Organization WBCSD World Council on Sustainable Development PR Public Relations NGOs Non Government Organizations 9 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 THE IMPORTANT OF RESEARCH In the last 10 years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a more concern in the business world and a growing number of corporations that began to think about their impacts on society, first and foremost because consumers became more interested in corporate activities around the world. It is also the commitment of one company to perform ethically and contributes an economic development at the same time as improving the quality of life. Besides, corporate social responsibility also creates a way of business responsibility to an extensive of the relationship between stakeholders, shareholders and investors. This is the result of growing requirement for corporate disclosure and increased customer demands. In the recent survey, there is a lot of consumers reported having either rewarded or punished companies based on their perceived social performance. In particularly, Vietnam is one of the country which getting more awareness about CSR in business. In 2005, Vietnam has a join of CSR towards the sustainable development that set up by Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and industry (VCCI) to payment the companies that actively implementation CSR in the international economics. According to Mr. Nguyen Quang Vinh- depute director of the enterprises for sustainable development consider “Enterprise of Vietnam need to be backed implement CSR, manufacturing business toward sustainable development is prerequisite, Vietnam’s enterprise survival in the context of international economic integration”. There fore, through the award of business 10 social responsibility, it has many companies go to implement CSR and it will be practiced more often as incentives for their business. At the same times, enterprises for the officers of Sustainable Development- VCCI is committed to coadministration of enterprises and always support and guide the implementation of CSR companies to advance the competitive advantages of enterprises in the integration process. Furthermore, when Vietnam joint to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2007, CSR is also achieving more tended from business because of its important role with the foreign customers and partners. Thus, CSR is one more essential thing in success of business in Vietnam. Besides, CSR is also the commitment of business to business ethics and develop the economics, they ensure to improve the quality of life for employees and their families, local society and the communities at large (World Council on Sustainable Development – WBCSD). Thus, CSR become the main factor to consider in the decisions of responsible investment as well. Business also gets other benefits such as developing the relationship with the workers, productivity increases and their employees will enhance attached to the companies. 1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT In the circumstance of Vietnam's accession to WTO, in addition to removing tariffs, environmental laws that companies take and accomplish is the most reasonable time to implement CSR. There are some enterprises having a highly 11 positive attitude towards CSR and it’s reporting, consumers’ perception is at low state and questionable. However, the implementation CSR in Vietnam is quite difficult because of misunderstanding of its important role. Therefore the problem with Vietnam corporations is lacking of information and lead to confusion, mismanagement in CSR applying. Understand the importance of this issue, Vietnam’s company also more pay attention to improve the CSR implementation and disclosure. In fact, the hypothesis testing shows that there seems to be a discrepancy between what managers say they do and what they actually do. The typical lesson recently is Vedan case in 2008 as one example. These scandals have affected a lot on the developing of Vietnam enterprise in general. However, the willingness to learn and gain more knowledge about CSR found from the survey has drawn a bright future for CSR implementation and CSR disclosure in Vietnam. 1.3 OBJECTIVE OF RESEARCH In order to succeed in the implementation of CSR in Vietnam, business owners should encourage the CSR for their employees to make a good relationship based on belief and loyalty between them and enterprise. This research also gives more cases and evidences to support the aims of research. Thus, it will be carried out some of meaning objective to accomplish this research. Firstly, the research will over view the basic concept and definition of CSR in general and its effect on the business development. Because the essential of CSR 12 in business thus it seem to be a best way to contribute a good corporate reputation and get profit. Therefore, this paper mention to the important of CSR and its role in business in Vietnam. At the same time, this thesis also deals with the survey of knowledge of Vietnam enterprises in CSR awareness. In particularly, the research will represent theoretical model and inspect of factors effecting CSR implementation and CSR disclosure in Vietnam business. This will be focused by giving the cases and evidences as well as its effect on the Vietnam enterprises. At the same time, the research also tends to improve the understanding of individual business on CSR issues, impacting and its importance in developing circumstance. Base on the quantitative analysis and overview of CSR implementation, the research also gives the result analysis and conclusion. Finally, the research gives recommendation and some future solutions for the business to improve the perception and comprehension of CSR influence and create the better performance. 1.4 RANGE OF RESEARCH In the beginning of this research, author introduced that it is the new thread and so difficult in Vietnam business studying of CSR. Therefore, it is focused on the issue of factors that effect on the CSR implementation and CSR disclosure in Vietnam. Also, the author will has logistic range in learning of its important in development of business as well as give more specifically solutions. At the same 13 time, it also represents by some typical cases and evidence of Vietnam Corporation to clear this issue. Besides, the time duration of conducting the research will from July 25, 2011 to October 17, 2011. 1.5 RESEARCH METHOD Because growing force on many corporations to carry out of the responsibility in to their activities that has resulted in a rising of large enterprises which starting to the responsibility in to their activities that has resulted in an increasing number of large corporations starting to forward the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Due to the diversification of much previous research, the purpose of this research was to achieve a better understanding of how the concept of CSR is incorporated in operations and focus on how it describes, integrates, and monitors CSR. In order to more clear the issue, the research will provide case studies of TWO different companies in Vietnam. Besides, many documentations and interviews were studied as a data collection method for this thesis. The summaries are made from the findings that were the corporation working tends to CSR, which is considered as a framework of a number of different circumstances, and absolute new and therefore it’s not yet fully established. However, CSR is still considered as an important part of the strategy’s activities. Further more, it was concluded that the companies work with high CSR in a multi-functional through different types of networks. The study also shows that there is little uniformity 14 between the business CSR monitoring and report systems. As a result, it’s important for a general system that can facilitate a comparison of CSR efforts internal companies. Besides, base on primary data, the research distributes the interview and gives questionnaire to study through Vietnam companies’ managers, officers and consumers. This can be examined how they understand the CSR concepts and what they know of its impact to the development of Vietnam enterprises. At the same time, this is the fastest way and cheapest collection data without be sued by any organizations. Furthermore, the information and any sources that use in this research are complete from the secondary data such as internet, newspapers, or something that author learning from teacher and library. 1.6 STRUCTURE OF RESEARCH In order to more clearly when study this research, the author will show all chapter in this part. It’s as well as more understand about the concept of CSR and its importance in business of Vietnam companies. Specifically, the research has created by five sections as following: Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Literature Review Chapter 3: Research Methodology Chapter 4: Result Analysis Chapter 5: Conclusions and Recommendations 15 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 THEORY FRAMEWORK 2.1.1 What is CSR? With Vietnam development business to day, the concept of CSR is seems to be vague in major of corporations. The facts there are a lot of definitions of CSR which create by many authors and organizations. One of these definitions describes “CSR as a capacity to make sustainable living”. It respects differences culture and differences business opportunities in contribution of the employee’s skills, the community and the government. However, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in its publication Making Good Business Sense by Lord Holme and Richard Watts, they described the term of Corporate Social Responsibility as “the continuing commitment of ethical and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as society at large”. In others vision, the traditionally define of United States, “CSR is know more as in terms of philanthropic model”. The firms make profits by achieve paying tax and then they share it to charitable causes. However, the European model is more focused on operating the core business in a socially responsible way, that base on investment decision for solid business case reasons. On the other hand, the European Commission encloses with two definitions into one concept whereby companies decide voluntarily to contribute to a better society and a cleaner environment. That means it integrates 16 social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. In conclusion, even though there are many differences of norms from the many studies or other sources, CSR still implement to improve the capacity of business which motivates the firms to advance their competitive advantages, employee’s belief and customers’ loyalty as well as the company’s performance. 2.1.2 Stakeholder theory The concept of stakeholders is core of CSR implementation. In this theory, the concept “stakeholders” refers to any group or individual who is influenced by the action of the firms. It may be given by a wider perspective as simply all those entities with a "critical eye" on corporate actors (BomannLarsen & Wiggen, 2004). According to the stakeholders theory argues that there are other parties involved, including governmental bodies, political group, trade associations, trade unions, communities, associated corporations, prospective employees, prospective customers, and the public at large. From the ethical perspective, organizations must have an obligation to treat fairly among stakeholders (Deegan, 2009). This is a dynamic activity, as expectations and pressure change and is further complicated by the need for managers to resolve the interests of different stakeholders and to decide it within the managerial decision making process. In the case of stakeholder’s conflict of interest, business has duty to achieve balance between them. 17 There are also various analyses and specifications of stakeholders are also provided by the marketing literature. According to Morgan and Hunt (1994), they put stakeholders in to four sectors that are including of internal, suppliers, buyers, and lateral stakeholders. In other hands, based on the Freeman’s theory, Baron (1995) had divided the stakeholders into two groups, called market and non-market. The market group is category in to customers, competitors, employees, partners, and suppliers. However, the non market is NGOs, government, regulators, environmental safety and standards organizations, media, society, or community. Both of them are impacted of the different level of social responsibility pressures or motivations of the company. There fore, many actions were taken by the companies that are related to stakeholder’s expectations (Friedman and Miles, 2002). It also is important to see that the concerning and satisfying the interest of stakeholders help to improve corporate governance and accountability that includes stakeholder communication and CSR reporting. 2.1.3 CSR implementation and CSR disclosure CSR implementation and CSR disclosure could be considered as an organizational change process to improve their performance and it seem to be a moving from a present to a future state or known as a new way of organizing and working. CSR practice of the company is aim to support the organization with the active 18 demands of the business and social environment through the classification and management of stakeholder prospect. In addition of view, CSR implementation relates to learning over time and the able to appreciate the specific situation and confluence of stakeholder expectations. Thus there is no best way to carry out of change developed learning of stakeholder expectations and the specifics of the context that will help to make sure the modification is beneficial and supported by appropriate mechanisms (Burnes, 2004). In the historical overview of development in the CSR literature and from theory to practice and associate versa, the ethical implications of CSR are ethics reoriented to the center of management decisions and policies. It’s also honesty with compliance or obligation and refers as the role of the leadership. Further more, the level of implementation is affected by numerous factors that including the CSR model-implementation keys, the principle’s instructional leadership, the measure of teachers’ professional community, and the helpfulness of the CSR developers’ assistance. The change in implementation is linked with positive change in principal’s instructional management. In Vietnam, CSR implementation is consider as a strategic decision and a means for authority and it bringing new business opportunities. According to Mr. Pham Hoang Hai, Action Aid Programmed Officer in the North in charge of CSR said that in fact “CSR practice is a tool for sustainable development that enterprises can implement to add more to their economic benefits. The companies do their CSR 19 nowadays as it assures the business growth but not damage the environment and not causing social inequalities”. Because of joint as a full member of WTO in 2007, CSR practices in Vietnam will enhance enterprises’ competitive advantages and carry out of the opportunities in export productivities to foreign markets. Therefore, effective implementation of CSR is an essential thing for the whole development of Vietnam enterprises. It should be concern that Vietnam has a lot of challenges when implement CSR in to business, it is difficult to assemble the demand of the community, of clients and suppliers toward the industrial development. In addition, a more important disclose from the government, in terms of public policy related to CSR is starting to become apparent with indications of increasing legislative activity in the areas of labour law, corporate governance and environmental protection. This leading to demonstrated numerous companies can effectively disclose corporate social responsibility (CSR) information to the public, but in practice, reporting this type of information is fraught with legal and ethical uncertainty often unexplored in most literature. The facts of there are many companies have scandal with CSR disclosure in Vietnam today. According to a recent of corporate survey, Vietnamese companies have implemented corporate social responsibities as a mean of making their reputation because of social demand changing nowadays. Besides, they also believe in understanding and dealing with responsibility awareness that will get benefit for their business. Therefore, due to accomplish business responsibilities, corporate 20
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