Corporate Social Responsibility Through Knowledge Management on the Example of IT Products’ Sector

Izabela Barbara Sztangret

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The article identifis and describes the way in which the concept of corporate social responsibility is implemented in the group of selected IT sector entities applied in response to conditions of the environment of functioning. It is perceived through the prism of management of partners’ knowledge in the eco-system of relationships of sample enterprises, IT sector leaders and their cooperants, including customers The problem gained special signifiance in the dynamic environment of functioning of enterprises, determined by social changes (according to the paradigm of the so-called decent society, intergenerational ethics and share consumption), economic changes (economics of moderation, deconsumption as the response to excessive consumerism) and environmental changes (ecologisation and eco-effectiveness in opposition to “exploitation of resources without limits”).


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corporate social responsibility, knowledge management, knowledge communities, eco-value, social exclusion (technological)

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/h.2017.51.2.253
Date of publication: 2017-08-16 10:52:31
Date of submission: 2017-02-28 22:13:17


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