Abstract
A LITERATURE REVIEW ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BOARD DIVERSITY AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACTIVITIES
In the current age, all communities are composed of individuals, more or less, with different genders, ages, levels of education and income, ethnicities, ages, values etc. Thus, the impact of progressively increasing diversity on the organisations has become a significant area of organisational reasearch.
The boards, presenting different levels of diversity while bearing the ultimate responsibility for the actions and decisions taken by the organizations are attracting attention in these kind of research. On the other hand, many stakeholder groups are more interested in non-financial “Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)” performance rather than financial performance of organizations’ activities, and this ultimately requires further studies to be carried out on the relationship between the organizational diversities of board and CSR activities.
The objective of this study is to review the article on the relationship between board diversity and CSR activities of organisations. Following the review, conceptual and methodological criticism of previous studies would be presented and some promising avenues for future research would be suggested. The research area is very topical and there exists very limited study in the national literature, thus indicating the importance to this study.
Keywords
Board, Board Diversity, Corporate Social Responsibility, Literature Review.
