CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN GHANA.

ABSTRACT

This research was motivated by the presence of equivocatory and divergent views on the relationship between corporate social responsibility and organizational performance in extant literature. The research in this direction sought to clarify this relationship by proposing an explanatory model assuming the Ghanaian perspective. To do this, the research firstly ascertained the determinants of organizational performance in the Ghanaian context. These determinants were then analyzed from the perspective of corporate social responsibility. The understanding garnered was juxtaposed with the stakeholder theory to develop hypotheses and consequently a conceptual model demonstrating the relationship between corporate social responsibility and organizational performance with their contextual factors. Testing the hypotheses that made up the conceptual model became the focus of the research and in that direction, data was collected from 210 respondents and analyzed using structural equation models (SEMs). The results were discussed and contributions presented.