Corporate social responsibility from the perspective of companies producing commercial passenger aircraft

Abstract

The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been a highly discussed topic lately. This concept is currently being discussed not only by researchers but also by practitioners. This is due the fact that CSR has an influence on how stakeholders see companies. The CSR concept represents voluntary integration of social and environmental aspects to strategic and everyday processes and operations of companies. The issue of CSR is increasingly important for the transport sector. This article is focused on companies producing commercial passenger aircraft. The current market of commercial passenger aircraft includes two major companies there are Airbus and Boeing. This article is focused on information about CSR that is commonly available on websites and also in publicly available documents provided by the companies Airbus and Boeing. The content of the released information is evaluated with respect to recommendations provided by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in the sphere of sustainability reporting. The aim of this paper is to present and to compare approaches taken by the selected companies producing commercial passenger aircraft to CSR issues. In addition, a method of content analysis and comparative analysis will be used, where the CSR approaches of the analysed companies will be compared.