[ Social Responsibility of Craft SMEs in Morocco:- An Empirical Study of the Region Fez-]

Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT: The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) was born in the United States and spread to Europe for decades. We focus in this article on CSR practices in Morocco. We study the craft sector SMEs, it is considered one of the pillars of the Moroccan. The fundamental questions we ask about are: How to craft SMEs perceive themselves their social roles and / or societal? What is the status of their current practices in terms of CSR? Extent craft SMEs in the region of Fez are socially responsible? To answer these questions, we conducted a survey of SMEs in the craft sector in the region of Fez. We structure our article as follows: in the first part we present the conceptual framework of CSR in general and Morocco in particular. Then we will present our research methodology. The third part is devoted to the presentation and discussion of the results obtained from the data collected from the survey