Cultural Values of Organizations in the Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility

In dynamically changing conditionings of modern enterprises, growing significance of stakeholders, business based on cultural values is becoming a new management paradigm. Profit is a crucial element of every enterpise, but it is a result, not an aim in a proces of creating value. This article tries to answer to, among many others, the following questions: 1. What is the undertow of actions socially responsible in business organizations? 2. What is the role of stakeholders in implementing a socially responsible business? 3. How does a process of incorporating CSR concept into everyday managing take place? 4. What are the relationships between cultural values and CSR values in organisations? Research presented in the paper is purely teoretical. In the research a method of analysing literature was used. The analysis that was carried out concerned recognizing the state of knowledge regarding relationships existing between elements of organisational culture and a CSR concept. A thesis was advanced that without proper cultural values, actions regarding CSR will have declaratory character only, or they will be a consequence of current gains and losses estimates. (C) 2018 M. Sieminski, K. Krukowski. Peer-review under responsibility of the Kaunas University of Technology, Panevezys Faculty of Technologies and Business