Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective and Managerial Practices in Turkey: A Research on ？stanbul Chain Hotels

As a result of globalization, corporate social responsibility perspective has been embraced by various countries. This perspective directly affects managerial practices in different countries. Economic, health, security and ecological system issues create a suitable environment for the host countries which lack certain aspects of dealing with the related problems. This also creates a perspective where managerial practices are redesigned in light of universal standards of CSR. From this standpoint, organizational response to social responsibility problems is generally driven by the universal standards of corporate social responsibility. Nevertheless, specific dimensions of CSR may dominate managerial practices paving the way for different kinds of practices in different countries. In this article, we investigate the CSR perspective of the hotels located in ？stanbul area and explore related dimensions of CSR activities using quantitative research methods and content analysis technique. The results of the study indicate that hotels in ？stanbul are more likely to use global dimension of CSR perspective and less likely to use internal and external dimensions when engaging with the managerial practices. Thus, contribution to related literature is achieved through the evaluation of conceptual classification of CSR in Turkey