CSR and Turkish Universities in ARWU 2018: An Evaluation of the Strategic Plans and Performance Reports

Fulya Akyıldız ()
Additional contact information
Fulya Akyıldız: Uşak University

A chapter in Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives, 2021, pp 321-341 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Analyzing corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of universities is possible through examining their strategic plans that are policy documents making institutional commitments visible. The universities’ strategic plans mainly provide information on education, R&D, and community service policies that are the main responsibility areas of universities. Among these responsibilities, a particular focus is given by this study on social responsibility policies and plans of universities and their position in the global university rankings. Global university rankings, however, solely take academic activities into consideration while ignoring CSR activities. In this context, the study questions the CSR policies and performances of the universities. Twelve universities from Turkey are examined that were included in the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Content analysis is applied to investigate the strategic plans of these universities in order to trace their CSR policy. To understand the CSR performance of universities, the Council of Higher Education’s (CoHE) university reports were used. Finally, the study ranks the universities CSR performances by using ARWU’s ranking method. Results show that, when academic and CSR performance of universities are compared, the rankings of eleven universities out of twelve alter. Findings show that University Social Responsibility (USR) can be applied to strengthen the image of universities and could be used as part of university rankings as a criteria when evaluating a university’s performance.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); Turkey; University; ARWU; University Social Responsibility (USR); Strategic plan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:eurchp:978-3-030-85304-4_20

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030853044

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85304-4_20

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().