Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Business Planning in Botswana

France Maphosa ()
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France Maphosa: University of Botswana

Chapter 2 in Corporate Citizenship, 2021, pp 31-75 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Dispite its impressive economic performance, Botswana still faces a number of problems including poverty, high levels of unemployment, inequality and high HIV prevalence. This contradiction demonstrates that the assumption that promoting the development of the private sector leads to the improvement in the social conditions of the poor is flawed. Although businesses in Botswana generally regard CSR/CC favourably, most of them do not consider it as a strategic business concern. Evidence of this is the absence of CSR/CC policies in many companies, general lack of systematic budgeting for CSR/CC and weak integration of CSR/CC into company organisational structures. Given that maximing profit remains the raison d’etre for the existence of any business concern, voluntary CSR/CC initiatives will remain just symbolic and not lead to real inprovememt to the welfare of the poor.

Keywords: Strategy; Planning; Welfare; Neo-liberalism; Political economy; Dilaectical; Voluntary; Mandatory; Stakeholder (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67766-4_2

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