Abstract:
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has gradually become a leading issue in business.
But the issue of Cooperate social responsibility is the least studied subject in developing countries.
The purpose of this study was to assess the benefits and challenge of corporate social responsblity
implementation in Ethiochicken. To address the objectives, case study research design was employed,
and both primary and secondary data collection methods were used. Data collected from 110
respondents through questionnaires and structured interviews. Simple random Sampling was
employed to select the sample. The quantitative data were analysed through descriptive statistics with
SPSS Version 20. The finding shows stakeholders' perceptions on components of CSR include
economic, ethical, legal, and philanthropic responsibilities agreed that items listed are important
aspects to business organizations socially responsible activities. The results of the research showed
that there was moderately implemented corporate social responsibility, there were success stories,
On the other side there had been challenges due to lack of institution assistant, lack of adequate
knowledge, lack of financing due to high cost and difficulties to obtain information about corporate
social responsibility implementations such as guidelines and standard metrics and there is lack of
awareness about the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility. The study recommended continuous
dialogue with the stakeholders, allocate enough budget for corporate social responsibility projects,
prepare policies and rules to controller corporate social responsibility implementation and offer staff
capacity building to the employee would help to overcome the challenges.
