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Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Business Planning in Botswana

In: Corporate Citizenship

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  • France Maphosa

    (University of Botswana)

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.

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  • France Maphosa, 2021. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Business Planning in Botswana," Springer Books, in: France Maphosa & Langtone Maunganidze (ed.), Corporate Citizenship, chapter 2, pages 31-75, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-67766-4_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67766-4_2
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