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- Corporate social responsibility and strategic management. The Polytechnic Institute of Bragança case studyPublication . Sorokina, Kseniya; Fernandes, Paula O.; Mammadov, JeyhunCorporate social responsibility (CSR) as a concept has been a subject for debates in the management area for a long time and it has become one of the standard business practices of our time. CSR can be described as a field of management that takes into consideration ethical issues in all aspects of the business. In the modern organizations managers need to know how they could contribute to strategic development and changes. These are the issues addressed by a study of strategic management (Thompson, 2002). Current research work will analyze both concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Management as well as separately and at the same time connect these topics. The term University Social Responsibility (USR) is explained as the capacity of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) to distribute and implement a set of principles, general and specific values aimed at enrich the educational and social challenges of the society through four key processes: management, teaching, research and extension (Dominguez, 2009). The following study aims to examine Case Study of Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB). The main objective is to define a perception of Corporate Social Responsibility by the students, how they react to the questions on the given topic, do they find the concept vital or not. It is important to enhance the gap points of the research results. The case study consists of the questionnaire based survey which was held among 200 Erasmus and International students from different countries. According to the empirical work done, it could be defined that nevertheless almost all students already have some pre-existing knowledge on the topic of Social responsibility and even have some interest, more effort from the side of the Education Institutions should be made in order scholars to be more involved in events, programs and even areas of study which are connected to the topic.