Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility Based on Fuzzy Analytic Networking Process-Based Balance Scorecard Model

Animesh Debnath (), Jagannath Roy (), Kajal Chatterjee () and Samarjit Kar
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Animesh Debnath: Department of Economics, Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, Burdwan (East) 713103, India
Jagannath Roy: Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Burdwan 713209, India
Kajal Chatterjee: Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Burdwan 713209, India
Samarjit Kar: Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Burdwan 713209, India

International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), 2018, vol. 17, issue 04, 1203-1235

Abstract: Over the last few decades, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosures become a powerful driver of overall stakeholders’ development while the relationship between CSR and its performance has provided conflicting results due to the most used intersecting circle representation of assessment of CSR. This study fills an important gap by analyzing the framework of CSR assessment practices on identification of five criteria and 17 indicators encompassing the strategies of accountability, transparency and compliance of CSR. To achieve the goal of CSR, the strategies have been defined in connection with different literatures and quaternary survey for criteria selection, where the criteria are expressed in a fuzzy horizon. This multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model has been solved using a fuzzy analytical networking process and balanced scorecard (BSC) method to develop selection strategy and criteria for implementation of CSR. The paper’s outcomes help administrators of corporate sectors, particularly in developing countries, to follow sustainable actions as CSR providers effectively and to gain a significant reasonable advantage. The findings exposed the CSR assessment structure and interrelationships among BSC perspectives/criteria and indicators on which managers are needed to emphasize to get optimum CSR performance. In this study, the most important strategy and criteria to perform optimum CSR level are as follows: “accountability of CSR project” is the best strategy; “Project team work, incentives, Environmental resources, Communication for motivation, Reporting initiative of stockholders, CSR project with stockholder capital, Strategic governance, Mission sustainability, political role, Human resources”, respectively, are criteria.

Keywords: Corporate social responsibility (CSR); criteria; strategy; fuzzy analytical networking process (F-ANP); balanced scorecard (BSC) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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