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Stream questions: What are real practices of SMEs in Corporation Social Responsibility? What are the brakes for implementing CSR in SMEs? What are the difficulties encountered by the firms in the implementation of CSR? What kind of advices could be applied to ownermanagers? What are the major effects of CSR for SMEs? What are the effects of the economic crisis on CSR practices and public policies?