According to the statistic data, there are 99 % of small and medium size enterprises (SME) in Slovenia. Nevertheless there is a lack of literature that explains the relationship between SME and corporate social responsibility (CSR). That is why we tried to research whether SMEs in Slovenia understand the concept of CSR and if they implement CSR activities in their business. We found out, that all of our interviewees understand the concept and they also practice CSR activities to some extent. There is also the difference in SMEs that have CSR in their core and those who don’t. The ones that do, managed to describe the concept better and are more consciously active in carrying out CSR activities. We also realised, that the lack of finances plays a big role in deciding the extent to which SMEs implement CSR. Because the pandemic last year (Covid-19), we also investigated how or if it influenced the SMEs understanding of CSR and their implementations of activities. We found out, that Covid-19 did not influence the understanding of CSR, but it did highlight some aspects like the impact on the environment due to excess discarded packaging. Because of the lack of finances, we were also interested in whether SME in our research would ever sacrifice CSR activities at the expense of financial stability. Once again, there is the difference between the SMEs who have CSR in their core ant those who don’t, because the first ones wouldn’t sacrifice their CSR activities due to finances.
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