Strengthening Women Stakeholders with Social Responsibility: Does It Really Work?

Sustainable development (WCED, 1987) is a key phenomenon of recent decades and has provided a viable framework for both practitioners and policy-makers to overcome increasing economic, environmental and social problems. Today, most business organizations have begun to accept its main philosophy and try to meet the challenges of the triple bottom line within their organizational system ( Jamali, 2006). In doing so, they need to convert their system into a sustainable one (Figge et al., 2002) focusing on the core functions of business, such as the production (Robèrt et al., 2002) or procurement process (Altuntaş and Türker, 2012; Linton, Klassen and Jayaraman, 2007). In a wider sense, however, the business organizations should also confront the economic, social and environmental claims of their stakeholders and adopt corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a management approach (Steurer et al., 2005).