The role of public policies in promoting Corporate Social Responsibility

The submitted dissertation holds the title The role o fpublic policies in promoting Corporate Social Responsibility (policy analysis o f 13 EU member states and the Czech Republic). The first chapter presents a general overview regarding the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The historical and theoretical backgrounds behind the idea of corporate responsibility are being discussed in this part. The second chapter concentrates specifically on the history and development of the CSR agenda within the European Union. The analysis is based on the main strategic documents the EU has issued in the past ten years in this specific area (e.g. Green Paper: Promoting a European framework for Corporate Social Responsibility from 2001 and others/ The third chapters presents an analysis of government policies applied in 13 chosen European countries with the aim of promoting and supporting CSR. Among the chosen analysed countries are for example France, Great Britain, Finland, Austria and others. The gathered information is then summarized in a comprehesive model that shows the ways and means governments in the European context apply in order to create an environment that stimulates companies to uptake CSR. This model is in the final chapter transmitted to the Czech local context and filled with local data...