Subject #: _CSR and Profitability Survey_________

Questionnaire

Section I: Personal Information

1. What is your date of birth?

/ / /

2. Gender:
Male
Female

3. Currently what is your role within your Company/place of study?

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Part 2
1. Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the following
statements:

5 = Strongly disagree
4 = Disagree
3 = Neutral
2= Agree
1 = Strongly Agree
Do you believe that CSR adds value? 5 4 3 2 1
DO you believe There is insufficient
evidence to suggest whether CSR increases 5 4 3 2 1
or decreases profitability?
CSR does not add profit 5 4 3 2 1
I am only interested in satisficing? 5 4 3 2 1
CSR benefits stakeholders 5 4 3 2 1
CSR benefits stakeholders most 5 4 3 2 1
Our activities consider the environment we
5 4 3 2 1
impact upon
You cannot measure the impact of CSR
5 4 3 2 1
immediately
CSR gives a company a competitive
5 4 3 2 1
advantage
The costs of penalties/ noncompliance are
5 4 3 2 1
too high
CSR is essential 5 4 3 2 1
CSR is more important than profit 5 4 3 2 1
Firms need to give back to communities 5 4 3 2 1

Part 3:

1. How would you define CSR?

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2. Do you use CSR in your business/ where you work. If so briefly explain the
impacts it has

3. Do you feel that CSR activities are correlated with positive or negative
profitability and if so you think some of the time or all of the time?

4. What activities of CSR do you think are related to profitably?

5. What CSR activities do you think are not related to profitability?

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6. There are a number of criteria listed below. Please select the version that
would be your 1st choice according to each of the criteria. If you really
cannot make a choice for a given criteria please select "Equal".

= yes
= no
Equal = satisfy this criteria equally

Criteria 1st Choice

CSR is expensive or inexpensive to a
Y E N
firm
Is Profitability the most important
Y E N
business objective?
In your opinion does CSR lead to
profitability in the short term or long Y E N
term
In your opinion is CSR impossible to
Y E N
predict its impact on profitability?
Is ROE- Return on equity or ROA- return
on assets a better technique to use to
Y E N
predict the impact of CSR on a firms
Profitability
Do you think CSR is ethical? Y E N
Can CSR be used for unethical means? Y E E N
Is CSR a form of window dressing? Y E N
Is CSR relevant? Y E E N
Will CSR continue to be relevant? Y E N
CSR has been working for other
Y E N
organizations?
CSR is positive? Y E N
Not using CSR doesn’t make a company
Y E N
socially unacceptable

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