Keywords
corporate social responsibility
sustainable development goals
content analysis
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Abstract
Social entrepreneurship is an important tie between businesses and altruism; it is seen as an implication of entrepreneurship in the social environment. Social entrepreneurship aggregates the skillfulness of traditional entrepreneurship with a goal to change the world. It offers insights that may find out ideas for more socially acceptable and sustainable business strategies and contributes to global sustainable development goals and it may also encourage firms to undertake more social responsibility. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to investigate the supports of Turkish food companies to the sustainable development goals through corporate social responsibility. In the study, content analysis method is used to analyze the data gathered from web sites of Turkey’s most valuable food brands according to the Brand Finance Report. The results of the study highlights that most valuable Turkish food brands support the sustainable development goals through corporate social responsibility practices mostly in the areas such as quality education, reduced inequalities, good health and well-being, responsible production and consumption, zero hunger, no poverty, gender equality, sustainable cities and communities.
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