Corporate Social Responsibility: A Solution for Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Romania

The chapter highlights the way companies and public institutions in Romania coped with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and afterward. Each country is different in the way it reacts to such a crisis, one without a recent precedent in the history. The main objective of the paper is to present the impact of the pandemic on both the employees and the organizations during this crisis from the beginning to the present moment when humanity has the solution of vaccination and also a hope to end this pandemic. People, companies, institutions, governments are not the same everywhere and the implications in the community for fighting against this pandemic are not at the same magnitude everywhere. The research methodology consists in applying PLS-SEM method based on the answers of 156 employees from different backgrounds, thus offering a wider perspective of the way corporate social responsibility helped in the fight against the pandemic. The results of the research are helpful for better understanding the way crises, health ones included, can be faced with more resilience.