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For many Kazakhstani companies the issues related to CSR have become a priority.

Interview of csrkz.org portal with Alexei Bendz, PR Director of AES Kazakhstan - Alexei, this isn’t the first year you have worked in the area of...

Corporate Social Responsibility: just a show or the reality?

“Open Kyrgyzstan” interview with Asel Arstanbekova, Director of CSR Business Network During recent years many people have been talking about corporat... For example in the USA and Canada, CSR is often narrowed to corporate philanthropy and social marketing; in Cambodia CSR is understood as a partners...

Gaukhar Kopbasarova, the Director of the Center for Corporate Governance and Business Ethics at the Association of Finan...

How do you evaluate the development of CSR in Kazakhstan? Companies and corporations that have international investors are more effective in this reg... One study of corporate governance practices in Kazakhstan, carried out by the Association of Financiers of Kazakhstan (AFK) and Ernst and Young in 2...

Botagoz Buralkieva, UNDP Kazakhstan: Corporate Social Responsibility and Kazakhstani Business

Since 2004, UNDP Kazakhstan has been actively involved in promoting the UN Global Compact principles as well as expanding the local Global Compact net... Around 450 Kazakhstani entrepreneurs participated in the survey, mainly from the small- and medium-sized enterprises. Its results showed that more t...

Adalyat Abdumanapova, IFC Kazakhstan Project Coordinator, Legal Advisor

From your point of view, how are corporate social responsibility and corporate governance interrelated? In my opinion, these concepts are inextricab... According to economist Milton Friedman, "the business of business is business". However, in response to this claim, we have to remember th...

Dr. Rajasekhara Mouly Potluri, Associate Professor, Kazak-British Technical University, Almaty

Corporate Social Responsibility: a Study of Kazakhstan Corporate SectorAbstractPurpose: The main purpose of this research is to know the attitudinal d... Design/methodology/approach: After thorough revision of relevant literature on corporate social responsibility, through well structured questionnair...

Dr John Dixon, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Administration, College of Social Sciences, KIMEP, ...

Corporate Social Responsibility: A Corporate Governance Perspective Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a concept with a growing currency around... It can also understood as a form of corporate self-regulation, whereby businesses accept responsibility for the impact of their activities on the en...

Tulegen Askarov, Economist, Journalist at Respublica Business Review, Lecturer at KIMEP

In your opinion, what is the current state of CSR in Kazakhstan? -At the moment, CSR in Kazakhstan is only at the initial stage of its development,... What is the commonly-held perspective of CSR in Kazakhstan? -Because CSR in Kazakhstan is mostly demanded by the government, it seems that business...

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Tengizchevroil Publishes Corporate Responsibility Report

ATYRAU, Kazakhstan, October 3, 2011 – Tengizchevroil today announced that it has released its second biennial Corporate Responsibility Report. “Tengizchevroil has been dedicated to incorporating the concept of Corporate Responsibility and sustainable development into all areas of our busine...

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Development of Crafts and Rebirth of Traditional Applied Arts in Kazakhstan

Elmira Shermuhanbetova is a young clothing and accessories designer. Her interest in clothing design is not accidental – many generations of Shermuhanbetov women have been engaged in such crafts. From early childhood, Elmira saw her grandmother knitting, weaving carpets and felting. Elmira’s interest in decorative arts initially led her to Shymkent’s Children’s Art School, then on to Art College and, finally, to the Clothing Design faculty of the Kazakh-Turkish University.…

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Bloggers about CSR

Rio tells us something we need to learn
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I cannot recall an earth summit which, as Rio+20 did, brought with it so little interest or glimmer of optimism. Nobody except the insanely optimistic expected anything significant …
GRI - The dilemma of practicing what you preach
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The Global Reporting Initiative recently produced its latest sustainability report. For me, it highlights the dilemma for a small catalyst organisation that might reasonably be expected …

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2012-07-12: CSR in Kazakhstan: from liability to strategic investment

This brief was created by a group of experts from Kazakhstan and Norway under a pilot project entitled "CSR in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan: Generating Ideas for Improved CSR Performance". The…
2012-07-12: CSR in Kazakhstan: from liability to strategic investmen

This brief was created by a group of experts from Kazakhstan and Norway under a pilot project entitled "CSR in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan: Generating Ideas for Improved CSR Performance". The project …
2012-05-02: SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP IN THE CSR DEVELOPMENT IN KAZAKHSTAN

ABSTRACT There is little research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Central Asian countries, in particular, in Kazakhstan. To understand the development of CSR in Kazakhstan the following…