Assessment of Health-Related Corporate Social Responsibility Practices and Their Determinants During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Dashen Brewery Share Company in Debre Berhan, Ethiopia

Corporate social responsibility means that organizations have responsibilities to society beyond producing goods and services at a profit in economic, legal, ethical, and Philanthropic domains. This study aimed at assessing the Health-Related Corporate Social Responsibility practice and its determinants in the time of COVID 19 Pandemics in the case of Dashen Brewery Shared Company, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia. An institutional-based cross-sectional study was employed among 422 respondents of Dashen brewery Employees and nearby residents from February 2020 to June 2020 in Debre Berhan, Ethiopia. Data was entered coded and cleaned using Epi-DATA version 4.6.0 and analysis was done by using the Statistical package for social science version 20 statistical software. Descriptive and inferential analysis was done as applicable. Bivariate regression was done for each explanatory variable and multivariable logistic regression analysis with 95% confidence interval and P-value < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. This study revealed that the industry majorly participates in COVID 19 pandemic prevention, caring elders in Habesha elder’s center and people living with HIV AIDS, and employee’s safety and health, but the company’s contribution on environmental protection and environmental waste management system and cleanliness poor. In conclusion, the overall corporate social responsibility practice related to health care service is not satisfactory. Results of multivariable logistic regression analysis indicated that the Firm’s profitability (AOR 5.2, 95% CI: (2.3–11.7), leadership (AOR 3.3, 95% CI: (1.1–9.6), social media marketing(AOR 6.3,95% CI:(2.7-14.97), legal environment(AOR 2.72, 95% CI: 1.62–4.6), community perception (AOR 5.2, 95% CI: (3.4–15), and social license (AOR 8, 95% CI: (4.3–23.6)) were significantly associated with the firm’s health-related corporate social responsibility practice The firm’s profitability, leadership, social media marketing, legal environment, community perception towards CSR, and social license were determinants of corporate social responsibility practice. This study recommended that the government of Ethiopia should include all domains of health-related corporate social responsibility in the investment policy of the country and Dashen brewery Shared Company should also work more on environmental and community health aspects of corporate social responsibility.