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Corporate Social Responsibility in Visegrad Countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary) Overall Landscape

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Poland

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to outline the context of CSR activities also in a geographic outline. The location and clustering of CSR issues gives the basis for comparison, benchmarking and empowerment to refer to a broader perspective. This chapter is a bridge between CSR knowledge and practice in Poland and the regional context within the Visegrad Group.

It is obvious that the socio-cultural, historical and economic backgrounds of the societies in this region differ from each other. But despite this variability there seems to be a consensus that, for analytical reasons, clustering CSR practices in the four Visegrad Countries (V4), against the wider—European or global context—is completely understandable.

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  1. Katedra Zarządzania Kadrami, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu, Wrocław, Poland

    Sylwia Przytuła

  2. Provozně ekonomická fakulta, Ústav managementu, Mendelova univerzita v Brně, Brno, Czech Republic

    Sylvie Formánková

  3. DMan FEM, Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovakia

    Iveta Ubrežiová

  4. Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary

    Anna Dunay

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Przytuła, S., Formánková, S., Ubrežiová, I., Dunay, A. (2019). Corporate Social Responsibility in Visegrad Countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary) Overall Landscape. In: Długopolska-Mikonowicz, A., Przytuła, S., Stehr, C. (eds) Corporate Social Responsibility in Poland. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00440-8_20

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