Public-private partnership for corporate social responsibility (CSR-PPP): A focus on Turkey

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2019

Tezin Dili: Türkçe

Öğrenci: MAHFOOZUR RAHMAN

Danışman: İYİGÜN NECLA ÖYKÜ

Özet:

The thesis study begins with the explanation of concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Public-Private Partnership (PPP), their advantages and constraints with various examples from many parts of the world and goes on to describe the concept of Public-Private Partnership for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR-PPP). Furthermore, examples of some CSR-PPP cases from Italy and India helped get a better insight into the concept of CSR-PP. The main aims of this study is to screen and analyze the CSR-PPP situation in Turkey, the study is divided into three parts i.e. the existing knowledge about the topic of CSR-PPP, the current CSR-PPP situation in Turkey and the future CSR-PPP trends and expectation in Turkey. The concept of CSR-PPP is a new concept with a relatively low amount of resource literature. Since the available secondary data on CSR-PPP is scarce and insufficient to successfully meet the purpose of this study, primary data through interviews is obtained. A total of three interviews were conducted. All the interviewees belonged to different sectors. The first interviewee had worked as Deputy General Manager for Transport, Eurasia Tunnel Project and is also an assistant professor in the department of Civil Engineering at Istanbul Commerce University. The second interviewee is the Deputy Tendering Manager at Özgün Construction Pvt. Ltd. The third and the last interviewee is the president of a PPP consultancy – Public-Private Partnership Center of Excellence (PPPCoE). The findings suggested that the practice of CSR-PPP is new in Turkey although many projects like CSR-PPP exist in Turkey and their number is supposed to increase in future. At the end, the study gives insightful recommendations in order to create better CSR-PPPs in future and also explains the limitations and future areas of research.