The Impact of Ethical Factors Within Corporate Social Responsibility on Engineers’ Attitudes Towards Corporate Decline – V4 Countries Empirical Study

The aim of the study was to examine the impact of selected ethical factors of business on the perception of defined attributes of decline in the small and medium-sized enterprises sector in the V4 countries. The perception of ethical business factors between entrepreneurs - engineers and entrepreneurs - non-engineers was evaluated. The study underscores the need for a permanent implementation of CSR analyses in a multi-level perspective that allows the integration of different theoretical frameworks, it says.The results of the study justify the need to carry out deeper structured analyses of the ethical aspects of Micro-CSR business at individual or group level, taking into account multiple categorization lines. The study confirmed the psychological effects of perceived CSR on the decline of a company. This can be very advantageous in identifying opportunities for a better use of CSR strategies and in creating adaptive CSR concept platforms