CSR and Supply Chain ResponsibilitySupply chain responsibility is a chain-wide reflection of issues beyond narrow economic, technical and legal needs of the supply chain to achieve social and, more importantly (in the current context) goals. era of global warming and natural disasters) ecological benefits as well as conventional financial expansions. However, according to Laura Spence and Michael Bourlakis (2009), the main characteristics of supply chain responsibility are: • A chain-wide commitment to achieve social and environmental benefits. • Legitimacy and the possibility for all links in the chain to have a voice. • True partnership approach. • Recognition of different approaches to ethics by different organizational forms within the supply chain. Corporate social responsibility emphasized on the governance of the individual company. The move toward supply chain responsibility involves expanding the movement across the entire supply chain. According to Spekman and Davis (2004), “CSR involves taking responsibility beyond the extended enterprise”. CSR, along with responsibility, is one of the practices by which a company seeks to guarantee its integrity. Responsible leaders are concerned with integrating and aligning the demands, needs, interests and values ​​of employees, customers, suppliers, communities, shareholders, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the environment and of society as a whole (Frame, 2005). Frynas (2005) argues that accountability is about more than making false promises. In the oil, gas and mining sectors, despite promises of CSR and spending more than $500 million in 2001 alone on a long list of community development programs and other CSR initiatives, the effectiveness initiatives a... ... middle of paper ......ring; Yin (1994, p. 34). The author, in order to build the validity of this study, used not only the data provided by Waitrose's CSR policies but also the data provided by the respondent and vice versa. The researcher acknowledges here that she relied more on the data provided by a few respondents, mainly due to time constraints. The number of interviews and respondents should be increased to achieve higher validity in this test. Internal Validity Internal validity testing is very useful in determining whether or not the empirical results correspond to the main research questions of such a study; Yin (1994, p.106). As part of this study, the researcher conducted interviews. The respondent also gave her the opportunity to ask follow-up questions when necessary for her. All these facts gave him the ability to answer his main research question..