My 2005 IPF Fellowship Research Topic is 

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Romanian Higher Education 
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Project Proposal

My IPF research project is in the area of Developing Socially Responsible Elites and the Challenges of Higher Education.

The project title is “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Romanian Higher Education”

The objectives of the project are:

  • to explore the degree of exposure to socially responsible practices of the future business elites allowed by the current higher education curricula of Romania universities; 

  • to devise recommendations for the Ministry of Education, universities offering business and economics majors, and the business community in Romania;

  • to develop policy recommendations promoting the role of higher education in developing the future socially responsible elites;  

  • and to write a 20-page policy study in coordination with the group advisor for higher education targeted at the Ministry of Education in Romania, the universities in four main cities (Bucharest, Cluj Napoca, Iasi and Timisoara) and the business sector in the country.   

Download full Project Proposal (pdf, 104 KB)                          Download Issue Paper (pdf, 59.7 KB)

 
Research Timetable

The   The IPF research project started April 2005 and will end April 2006.    

 
Main activities:
 
Documentation (search for relevant materials, photocopying, subscriptions, books purchase etc.) (Month 1-4)
Literature review (Month 2-5)
Draft theoretical framework of the research (Month 4-6)
Research European Curricula on CSR (Month 5-6)
Comparative analysis on Romanian and European curricula on CSR (Month 5-6)
Draft case study on European and Romanian Curricula on CSR (Month 5-6)
Draft questionnaire and interview guide (Month 6-7)
Test questionnaire and interview guide (Month 6-7)
Finalize questionnaire and interview guide (Month 6-8)
Contact universities (Month 7-8)
Schedule survey (Month 7-8)
Identify interviewees (Month 7-8)
Field research – conduct survey (Month 8-10)
Data entry (Month 9-10)
Data analysis (Month 8-10)
Conduct interviews (Month 8-10)
Interviews analysis (Month 8-11)
Draft empirical chapter of the report (Month 10-11)
Draft policy recommendations (Month 10-11)
Finalize the research report (Month 11-12)
Disseminate the results (Month 11-12)