Manogna Goparaju
PhD Student

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Biography

Manogna is an Environmental Economics & Environmental Management PhD student with SEI York and the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. She is supervised by Dr. Corrado Topi and Professor Piran White.

Her current research concentrates on corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies in developing countries, with a special focus on the Indian (private) financial sector and the Indian Companies Act, 2013.

Manogna has a BSc. in Environmental Science and a MSc. in Corporate Social Responsibility with Environmental Management from the University of York. Her MSc. thesis was conducted in collaboration with SEI’s GreenEcoNet Project. The research focused on investigating the barriers and enablers associated with adopting and implementing CSR in the Indian private sector. The research, additionally, investigated the initial effects of Schedule VII in the Indian Companies Act, 2013 on the Indian private sector.

She has previously interned with the CSR department in the Greenko Group, a renewable energy production company. 

Career

Research

Overview

Title: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Companies Act, 2013 in India

Supervisors: Dr. Corrado Topi and Prof. Piran White

Description of Thesis:

In 2013 the Indian government amended its 1956 Companies Act to include corporate social responsibility into it, making it mandatory for a category of private sector organisations. My PhD with SEI-Y and Environment aims to map the consequences of this newly institutionalised law and the effects it has on the private sector in India as well as on the concept of CSR. The research additionally aims to understand the drivers and barriers that organisations have while adopting and implementing CSR.