CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY – CSR : SOME THEORETICAL PROBLEMS AND DEMAND FOR MANAGING CHANGES RELATED TO CSR IN VIETNAM.

Abstract

CSR is not a new title in the world as well as in Vietnam, but CSR is still one of the burning issues in the day. After Vietnam became a member of World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2007, CSR has become even much more important for the country to develop sustainably. This paper aims to discover the awareness of Vietnam enterprises about CSR and the reality of implementing CSR into business in Vietnam. Then, this paper also points out some challenges and theoretical problems of CSR then shows the demands for managing changes related to CSR in Vietnam. Vietnam is a developing country and it is also one of the fastest – growing economies in the world, therefore how to make the country develop sustainably is still questionable. Vietnamese government has put may efforts in all field to make the country develop sustainably, including society, economic, culture and critic. From the experiences of developed countries, Vietnamese nowadays pay more attention to improve both economic and standard of living. CSR is one of their efforts to make the country develop sustainably. However, the research indicates that although there is a strong support for CSR from managers, consumers, accountants, a part of them are still lack of knowledge about the importance of CSR.