Abstract
The thesis is organised as follows. The next section presents a brief section on the ontological and epistemological nature of this thesis. This is followed by a literature review. This theoretical section is made up of one main section on sensemaking and another principal part specifically focusing on the sensemaking of CSR practices in organisations (CSR sensemaking). While doing so, it also highlights the literature on the CSR sensemaing of executives and CSR workers as middle managers. It subsequently explores the Bangladeshi and Japanese contexts, the central areas of the studies developed. Then the thesis sets out its methodology and the way data was collected and analysed in Bangladesh and Japan. The last section presents a summary of the articles and their findings, before spelling out its chief general contribution, implications for practice and limitations.