Corporate Social Responsibility: Motivation, Perception, and Activities among SMEs in the Czech Republic

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has gained more and more attention in recent decades. CSR is emerging and issue in management. Recently, CSR is in focus of practitioners and scholars, and many researches are devoted to CSR. However, the corporate social responsibility of SMEs is still slightly neglected. Therefore, the recognition that corporate social responsibility is essential for the business of SMEs is important. Therefore, this article is devoted to the CSR activities of SMEs. The author tries to reveal the motivations of SMEs to carry or not carry out CSR activities in the Czech market. This paper refers to a sample of 312 SMEs located in the Czech Republic. Author research revealed that the implementation of CSR depends on the category of SMEs and that there is a strong positive correlation between several dimensions of CSR adopted by SMEs at the confidence level of 99%.