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The aim of this paper is identifying the extent of ISO 26000 implementation in Romania and the means used by Romanian companies in this process. We used a descriptive and exploratory research, analyzing the data regarding ISO 26000 standard available on the websites of the first 25 companies in Romania in terms of their turnover (at the level of 2015) and also in their CSR reports if they were public. The result was quite surprising: only four companies make explicit references to the standard on their online channels addressed to the public. The lack of references in the CSR reports and on their websites does not implicitly mean that those companies do not implement the standard, but the fact they use other standards.
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Ogarca, R., Puiu, S. (2019). ISO 26000 Implementation: The Case of Top Romanian Companies. In: Idowu, S.O., Sitnikov, C., Moratis, L. (eds) ISO 26000 - A Standardized View on Corporate Social Responsibility. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92651-3_2
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