Research Proposal on "CSR Responsibility"

Research Proposal 8 pages (3415 words) Sources: 12 Style: Harvard

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CSR Responsibility

Some of the references have the words "accessed on ..." which is an indication that the reference is an online one, but there is no webpage associated with it, and hence I would be grateful if I can have the full

Some of the references used has a general website, such as

"http://www.proquest.com," but when you go there it is a membership website and not anybody can access it. So my request is what is the possibility of the writer getting me the full link or a PDF or jpg file of the document used, and if there is cost incurred just inform before how much it will cost me to obtain these files.

would be grateful if I can have to enlarge the paper. This can be done by more explanation of the model described on page 3 "Table 1: Proposed IFI CSR

Maturity Model."

If I can have another page added at the extra cost of $18.00. These 300

words + the 400 requested earlier should take the word count in the paper to around 2700 or at least not less than 2500 words. Again more explanation of the model + more general explanation using the papers I sent. It is very important for the writer to use some of the papers I sent him earlier to enlarge the paper.

To do this, I would be grateful if the paper can be with me before 23/4/09.

If there is any difficulty in any of my request or require more clarification, please inform me ASAP.

Thank you again for your help and support.

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Research Proposal:

Corporate Social Responsibility Practices of Islamic Banks

Introduction

Assessing and measuring the contribution of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs of Islamic Financial Institutions (IFI) and their long-term effects on emerging growth businesses is the intent of this research proposal. The investment approaches used IFI to create and sustain CSR-based outreach programs to emerging and entrepreneurial businesses including reliance on Mudarabah for financing and Profit-and-Loss sharing arrangements for small businesses are the basis of this research. The objectives of this research are to evaluate the effectiveness of CSR programs by IFIs to determine their long-term contribution to the creation and formation of new businesses. The role of CSR programs as a form of venture capital including microlending and microfinancing (Djojosugito, 113, 114), in addition to measuring the viability of the profit-and-loss sharing (PLS) scheme longitudinally in terms of its contributory or detrimental roles in the formation of new businesses. The methodology of this study concentrates on interviewing entrepreneurs of small IFI-based firms and the accumulated performance of microlending and microfinancing programs over time. The distribution of type of business, its product or service orientation, the role of IFIs in providing the necessary guidance for creating a successful going concern are also to be analyzed. The practice of capital asset allocation in the creation of new businesses through CSR-based programs including Bai' al-Inah as a means to invest in new plant & equipment, facilities and supplies that would be a capitalized expense from a cost accounting standpoint is also discussed. These results will then be extrapolated across the regions of the world where IFIs operate and then global results of the results of CSR programs assessed. CSR is seen as one of the catalysts of the growth if Islamic banking (Khan, Bhatti, et.al) and an insight gained from this study will evaluate that finding from previous empirical studies of the topic.

Aims and Objectives

The following are the aims and objectives of the proposed research study. Underscoring each of these aims and objectives is the assessment of whether CSR program are actually attaining the desired results or not. This will be determined by interviewing IFI managers to determine their initial goals for Mudarabah-based programs, micro-lending and CSR-based outreach programs in the Islamic nations with low per capita incomes. While IFI-based CSR programs have been critically praised for the contributions to communities and in fact entire regions of nations (Maali, Casson, Napier, 266) they have not intensively been studied purely from their translations of small businesses into going concerns capable of uplifting an entire region based on economic growth. CSR programs are meant to create sustainability while staying consistent with the ethico-legal dimension (Rosly, 31) of the IFI operating principles. The balancing of purely social contribution to the ability to have CSR programs serve as the catalyst of new venture creation and the enrichment of entire regions is the paradox on which this research is to be based. As a result, the following are the key aims and objectives, each specifically defined to provide a clearer glimpse into the paradox of purely using CSR as a means to fuel social change or to accomplish both through the creation of new enterprises that have the ability to deliver a higher standard of living to many more than those just underwritten with the initial investment. This study seeks to measure the long-term gains of CSR programs both from a social as well as new venture perspective. While measuring the total number of lives enriched socially, spiritually and through a standard of living increases due to microfinancing and microlending programs leading to more job creation is not possible given the scope of this study, the long-term growth just of the businesses and social programs financed is. Measuring relative growth of these firms over time and then assigning a relative measure of performance to them, in effect indexing their growth by the extent of CSR support then are given, will lead to the creation of a IFI CSR Maturity Model which is shown in Figure 1.

Table 1: Proposed IFI CSR Maturity Model

The proposed model will show over time the effects of CSR programs on new venture growth and the attainment of specific social responsibility goals over time. CSR's programs dual roles will be measured in the proposed IFI CSR Maturity Model.

Analyzing the Proposed IFI CSR Maturity Model

At the highest levels of maturity, which would be considered best practices in the context of this proposed model, is the level of orchestrating functions across a federation of banks that are necessary for creating intercommunity maturity. On the CSR and microfinance contribution to growth side of the proposed model the ability to define data sharing and funding across financial institutions defined maturity levels of the proposed model. This in turn defines multi-tier, multi-funding visibility and collaboration. From the research completed for this proposal, few Islamic lending institutions have attained this level of transparency with each member of their lending chain; rather the majorities are in the Anticipating phase of the IFI CSR Maturity Model, choosing to focus on a select group of financial institutions that are a significantly high level of orders are fulfilled with the assistance of, and where collaboration is more likely to be instantaneous due to the high level of trust achieved.

Many lending institutions occupying the second highest layer, collaborating, are using portals including Intranet platforms for maximizing information sharing and co-sharing of financial data and CSR best practices that can deliver much value to emerging businesses. Collaborative lending strategies, as they are defined from the research cited in this proposal, are marked by reliance on a high level of cross-lender collaboration as well. While many may see the concept of cross-lender collaboration being improbable and even avoidable in the development of a competitive lending environment, in fact those lending practices that have reached best practices level of performance specifically have this attribute.

The next level of the model, Orchestrating level of performance, the step above that is that the entire lending network becomes a "learning network. Anticipating, the second highest level in the maturity model, is where the majority of lenders are today, which is to say "every lender or financial institution for themselves." The focus on making a strong correlation between making information flow optimized vs. striking a collaborative focus with other Islamic financial vendors throughout the industry's financial services value chain. This level of the maturity model is a transitory one and is focused more on either small, incremental gains from the first level, which is Reacting.

In the Reacting layer of this proposed IFI CSR Maturity Model, the majority of departments within a lending institution have decidedly "every department for itself" approach to process maturity and have information flow that is purely dependent on personal productivity applications only. These include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and others, and in short the development of longer-range projects and programs is non-existent in this level of the IFI CSR Maturity Model. At this level of the model, lending institutions focus first and foremost on tactical wins at the expense of global victories. This mindset in turn creates an isolated approach to lending programs and CSR initiatives. The isolation that exists at the Reacting layer of this maturity model has implications on the… READ MORE

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