Muhumed, Quresh Maalim2026-01-222026-01-222018-01Muhumed, Q. M. (2018). Corporate social responsibility strategies and competitive advantage of commercial banks in Kenya: Case of Equity Bank Kenya Limited. International Academic Journal of Human Resource and Business Administration, 3(1), 27-512518-2374https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/32188Journal ArticleCorporate social duty assumes an undeniably vital part in business obligation today. Financial, political, and social elements are forming CSR techniques around the globe. Socially mindful corporate execution can be related with a progression of main concern benefits like improved brand image, innovation and reputation in spite of the fact that much of the time, it appears that the time period of the expenses and benefits can be askew where the expenses are quick, and the benefits are not regularly acknowledged quarterly. The execution of business organizations is influenced by their techniques and operations in market and non - market situations. One develop that may catch a noteworthy component of these non-advertise techniques is corporate social obligation. The objectives of the study include; determining the influence of education programs, environmental programs, enterprise development programs and staff welfare programs on competitive gain of Equity bank Kenya Limited. The study was anchored on stakeholder’s theory, strategic leadership theory and resource based view theory. The study used descriptive research design. The target population of this study was composed of all top management staff of equity bank in Kenya drawn from the head office in Nairobi who total to 145. Simple random sampling was used to choose the sample size of 44 which is 30 percent of the total study population. The examination utilized both essential and auxiliary information. Essential information was gathered using semi organized questionnaires directed to staff using pick and drop technique and through email delivery. The instrument was verified for validity by the university supervisor and cronbach alpha was used to test reliability. Quantitative data collected was analysed by the use of statistical Package for Social sciences and excel. Findings were presented by use of tables, frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviation. From the findings, there is strong positive relation between education programs and competitive advantage of magnitude 0.853; this relationship is statistically significant p=0.000enArticle