Research Problem Statement
Identify the key concepts you intend to investigate in your dissertation.
• Identify any relationship you plan to examine between or among the concepts.
• Name the target population of interest.
Research Problem Statement
The huge corporate companies should be encouraged and motivated so that they can help
the small businesses by equipping them with the needed resources and skills to grow. In this
regard, one of the avenues through which the small businesses may benefit from the big ones is
corporate social responsibility (Rahman, 2013). The aim of this research is establishing if huge
companies utilize corporate social responsibility in empowering the small business, and if this is
not the case, how this would be accomplished. Hence, this research’s topic is identifying the role
corporate social responsibility has in empowering the small businesses.
Problem statement; this research’s intention is establishing the aims for which huge
corporate use their CSR/ CSI programs, with specific reference to how and if they use such
programs for the empowerment of small businesses, and in addition, to acquire ideas for
expanding such investments (Ionescu, 2013).
Three research problems
The first research problem is establishing the aims for which huge corporates use their
CSR or CSI programs. Without doubt, the huge businesses never lack CSR programs. However,
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while some have these as a norm so that the communities can embrace them, others have them
for totally different reasons. Therefore, it will be necessary to evaluate why these programs are
incorporated in companies (Wolf, 2015).
The second research problem is identifying ways on how the huge corporates use CSR/
CSI programs in empowering small businesses. This will help in establishing if small businesses
benefit from the huge ones as far as CSR is concerned.
The third research problem is gathering ideas on how such investments can be expanded.
Considering that these programs are ultimately beneficial (Agarwal & Agarwal, 2015), how can
they be expanded for maximal benefits?
Conclusion
Small businesses would be able to achieve a lot if they had a chance of learning from the
huge ones. Therefore, this research study aims at exploring how this can be achieved.
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References
Agarwal, R., & Agarwal, P. (2015). Business, Government, and Society Synergy for Sustainable
Livelihood.
Ionescu, A.-C. (2013). How can Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Innovation Enhance
Enterprise Performance?
Rahman, H. (2013). Open Innovation Strategies in SMEs.
Wolf, R. (2015). Corporate Social Responsibility.
