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: Received: 14 November 2023 / Approved: 15 November 2023 / Online: 16 November 2023 (14:27:16 CET)
How to cite:
Atzmanstorfer, K.; Bartling, M.; Zurita Arthos, L.; Grubinger-Preiner, J.; Feil, C.; Eitzinger, A. Making Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Participatory and Locally Visible – a Prototype Solution. Preprints2023, 2023111105. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1105.v1
Atzmanstorfer, K.; Bartling, M.; Zurita Arthos, L.; Grubinger-Preiner, J.; Feil, C.; Eitzinger, A. Making Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Participatory and Locally Visible – a Prototype Solution. Preprints 2023, 2023111105. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1105.v1
Atzmanstorfer, K.; Bartling, M.; Zurita Arthos, L.; Grubinger-Preiner, J.; Feil, C.; Eitzinger, A. Making Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Participatory and Locally Visible – a Prototype Solution. Preprints2023, 2023111105. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1105.v1
APA Style
Atzmanstorfer, K., Bartling, M., Zurita Arthos, L., Grubinger-Preiner, J., Feil, C., & Eitzinger, A. (2023). Making Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Participatory and Locally Visible – a Prototype Solution. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1105.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Atzmanstorfer, K., Christian Feil and Anton Eitzinger. 2023 "Making Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Participatory and Locally Visible – a Prototype Solution" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1105.v1
Abstract
Traditional Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)-programs rarely include participatory components that connect CSR-activities of private companies with their local communities. However, there is an increasing demand to include citizens as well as the resources and expertise of the private sector in the design and implementation of local community planning processes. To assess the potential, opportunities, and challenges of including private companies into participatory community planning at a local level, we analyzed the experiences that we collected during the piloting phase and the commercial roll-out of the ‘Bürgercockpit’-application for citizen participation, as well as the results of a digital CSR-questionnaire that we shared with different companies in Austria. Our research indicates that most of the participating companies are interested in including local communities into their CSR-projects using a digital tool, if this tool is easy-to-use, easy-to-access, and provides a flexible structure to address specific project requirements as well as properly designed features for stakeholder communication and user feedback. The findings of both, the ‘Bürgercockpit’-pilot study and the CSR-questionnaire provided us valuable input for designing a prototype solution of a digital CSR-tool for participatory community planning at a local level as well as recommendations for future research in this topic of growing interest.
Keywords
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); digital participation; community planning; citizen participation
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Geography
Copyright:
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