Research on the social responsibility projects carried out by the first 500 manufacture companies in Turkey

The technological level reached in the twenty first century, the development of distribution and marketing processes and increase in the competitive environment have caused the products manufactured and the services provided come closer to each other. With the increase of consumer consciousness features of products and the services they sought have considerably changed. The purchase preferences of customers, which they have never thought of previously, have gained significance about how much companies have been aware of their social responsibilities and what they have concerning their responsibilities. In this period, when competition has increased considerably, it is clear that acting for the benefit of a society to create distinctiveness through corporate social responsibility consciousness, shall obviously provide companies with the opportunity for advantageous competition.In this study, which aims to make a meta evaluation of the corporate social responsibility projects, which are carried out within the scope of sustainability and transparency, of ?The Largest 500 companies of 2011 in Turkey?, published by İstanbul Chamber of Industry, it is determined that while the first 500 companies, which are active in the field of training have the most corporate social responsibility projects, but the energy sector has the fewest, while some of these companies carry out their corporate social responsibility operations through foundations, majority of them carry out their activities without the need for foundations, majority of these companies have not signed the United Nations Global Compact Agreement, and it is hard to access to their activity reports in their web-site, only a few stated that they compliance with the Corporate Governance Principles. In spite of the fact that the number of establishments operating in the computer and electronic sectors is small but they are rather sensitive in corporate social responsibility. Another find of this study is that none of the coke and refined petroleum product producers is sensitive to corporate social responsibility operations.Key Words: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility Project