The evaluation of corporate social responsibility activities in the context of civil society perception

Societies are to become conscious with information age. Expectations of societies from businesses are on the increase and societies can apply sanction for their expectations are fulfilled. This situation shepherds businesses toward to be responsible and sensitive. Business and its environment are in an interdependence. Activities of businesses affect both their own and society. Therefore, businesses can?t remain insensitive to environmental and social affairs. Furthermore, they should have responsibility not to cause environmental and social affairs with their activities. Daily decisions and long term activities of business should find acceptance by social environment. Especially, as the businesses thrive, expectation of environment increases more. Because they use resources of society, economy and nature more. Due to these causes, nowadays, corporate social responsibility concept is the main concern.In the civilized society, there is a civil society concept. Nowadays, efficiency of civil society increases about environmental, economical and social matters. Particularly non-governmental organizations that to be organized form of civil society is to be quite effective about social, political, economical matters and international relations. In term of such an effective structure, there appears the importance of relations with businesses. Businesess have relations with civil society and non-govermental organizations. This situation reveals the question about perception and the rate of relations. Businesses which are aware of civil society and non-governmental organizations, shape their corporate social responsibility activities accordingly. The activities that are performed by the businesses reveal how they consider about civil society. Its highly important to reveals their positive point of view about civil societies for businesses.In this research, corporate social responsibility and civil society concepts were investigated theoretically. Later a survey was conducted upon businesses for determining civil society perception of businesses. At the result of research, it was determined that businesses have positive point of views about civil society subjects.