The Reality of Creating Shared Value at Small and Medium Enterprises in the Kingdom of Bahrain
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56830/IJAMS07202205Keywords:
Creating Shared value (CSV), Social Responsibility (SR), Business Results (BR), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Kingdom of Bahrain.Abstract
Creating Shared Value (CSV) has been presented by Porter and Kramer to get rid of capitalism idea, as tool to vanquish the perception that business profit at the expense of society. This research aim is to study the reality of value sharing in small and medium enterprises in the Kingdom of Bahrain, which is measured through its three levels, (level 1- reconceiving product and markets, level 2- redefining productivity in the value chain, level 3- enabling cluster development.), as well as determining the reality of achieving each of the three levels in the SMEs in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This research contains five parts, introduction, literature review, research methodology, data analysis & presentation, and discussion & conclusion. A questionnaire distributed to 233 managers and owners of the SME’s which they were working under the umbrella of the business incubators and registered at the Ministry of Trade and Tourism in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
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