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Table 2: The state of CSR practices in Taiwanese SME manufactures
No. of responses
Engaging in CSR now Yes 59 (46%)
No 69 (54%)
Intend to engage in CSR in the future 3 years Probability 36
21%-40% 18
41%-60% 5
61%-80% 3
81%-100% 4
Missing data 3
CSR Activities
Providing employee training and 81 (63%)
Facilitating employee motivation for jobs 52 (41%)
Improving health and safety of employee 82 (64%)
Non-discrimination to physically or 36 (28%)
disabled, women, and immigrants
Reducing environmental pollution 79 (62%)
Moral persuading upper-stream suppliers 31 (24%)
Avoiding relations with companies that 57 (45%)
Providing environmental report 15 (12%)
Recycling and reducing waste 105(82%)
Active in energy saving and carbon 92 (72%)
Using recycled material in manufacturing 43 (34%)
Providing high quality and service beyond 48 (38%)
Offering safe products and service beyond 49 (38%)
Providing full information of products 60 (47%)
Fair pricing 77 (60%)
Handling customers’ complaint beyond 90 (70%)
Support local either cultural or social 46 (36%)
Volunteer work in local communities 24 (19 %)
Donations for large charities in the name of 56 (44%)
Donations for temple, church or community 61 (48%)
Offering scholarships for universities 3 ( 2%)
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In Table 2, there are 46% Taiwanese SME manufactures that are engaging in CSR
now. If we plus the probability over 80% of intending to engage in CSR in the future
3 years into 46%, then that would be half of SME manufactures doing CSR.
However, more than 50% responses of SMEs that practice CSR activities but answer
not doing CSR imply that many Taiwanese SMEs implement these CSR activities
but don’t call them ‘CSR’ as the literature called ‘implicit CSR’. Recycling and
reducing waste, active in energy saving and carbon reduction are the top two
proportions of CSR activities of Taiwanese SMEs, which reveals that Taiwanese
SMEs take much more account of these two topics than other CSR activities.