My 2005 IPF Fellowship Research Topic is 

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Romanian Higher Education 
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The first product of the project is the policy study "Business and Economics Graduates: Socially Responsible or Socially Alienated?" aimed to persuade CSR stakeholders and policy makers that CSR is insufficiently taught in Romanian Business and Economics schools, but also to provide comparative data from European countries where CSR is taught at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The study also discusses policy alternatives, evaluating them following  a set of criteria and discussing the implications of each option. Recommendations are deemed for all CSR stakeholders and main policy makers in the educational field.

Download the "Business and Economics Graduates: Socially Responsible or Socially Alienated" policy study (pdf, 266 KB)

The second product of the project is the research report "Bridging Societal Gaps - Educational Policy as a Tool for Developing the Future Socially Responsible Elites". The report argues that higher education systems should educate students for social responsibility. Some of the questions that inspired this study stem from the unexpected finding (at least for the author) that universities do not necessarily find they have a responsibility to educate students to be socially responsible citizens, regardless of the profession they are educated for.

Download the "Bridging Societal Gaps - Educational Policy as a Tool for Developing the Future Socially Responsible Elites" research report. (pdf, 263 KB)

Project Reports

Interim Activity Report - September 2005

My activity during the first 5 month of the fellowship was concentrated on three main actions:

1) Identifying relevant resources for the project (books, publications, previous research in the field, resource people and institutions in the field),

2) Organizing my activity according to the proposed research time line (purchase of equipment, collecting contacts of institutions to be included in the research) and building the web site of the project,

3) Initiate the actual research related activities (literature review, collect information on higher education curricula, discuss the proposed research with people in the field, and participate in conferences).

The activities fall under the initial project timeline with neither delays nor changes.

Final Activity Report - June 2006

My main activities during the fellowship period were concentrated on three main directions:

1) Resource identification (consisted of identifying European and Romanian resources focusing on CSR theory and practice)

2) Research (focused on surveying students in business and economics schools and interviewing academics and business people about CSR practice and its connections with the educational process)

3) Dissemination (concentrated on producing relevant policy writings and disseminating them among relevant stakeholders and presenting the project and its findings to related conferences)

Unexpected factors sometimes influenced the scheduled activities, but no major changes occurred.

 

 

 

Full final activity report will be available June 2006