Research On Corporate Social Responsibility Audit And Small And Medium - Sized Enterprises' Countermeasures

Since the1990s, corporate social responsibility (also known as corporate citizens) movement is on the rise around the world. Many well-known brands have gradually developed code of conduct under the pressure of media, consumers and non-governmental organization (NGO). They also conduct auditing and certificating to the global suppliers including those from China, since then corporate social responsibility has become a global social movement. As important parts of the export-oriented economy, Chinese clothing, footwear, toy, furniture industries firstly face the demands and take the pressures of corporate social responsibility. The enterprises of these industries vary a lot with regard to management level, some large enterprises and the vast majority of SMEs have flaw on management more or less. The existence of these problems just provides broad space for Citizens’ Movement of the enterprises.This paper firstly studies the background of the movement of corporate social responsibility, developments and trends of corporate social responsibility auditing, further analyzes in detail the impact that corporate social responsibility auditing and certification exert on SMEs. Meanwhile, this paper also describes the necessity and strong driving force of fulfilling social responsibility for SMEs. Subsequently, this paper points out the common problems of SMEs, based on the existing circumstance of these enterprises. This paper takes s.Oliver as an example to analyze in-depth the social responsibility audit and certification that the brand exerts on SMEs, particularly demonstrates the effects of social responsibility including the adverse effect of social responsibility audit to international business and the positive effect that social responsibility audit to SMEs. This paper further explores why the social responsibility standards of these enterprises are relatively lower than expected and makes the analysis the different index about the for SMEs. Based on the above investigation, this paper raises the idea that SMEs should actively deal with social responsibility audit as well as the suggestions and methods for improving the corporate management standards, which are the main part of this paper.The possible innovation of this paper lies that it starts from the years of experience of being working in the team of brands, judging the effect of the implementation of social corporate responsibility and it focuses on SMEs, describing in details the improving of social responsibility audit and the response that the appropriate way that SMEs should do, which should be meaningful.