Introduction The main aim of an organization is to get enjoy profits from the society it is operating in. To achieve this, there are activities that an organization needs to do so as to attract more consumers, as well as maintain the established consumer base. Application of strategic management concepts and corporate social responsibility are some of the activities that an organization may get involved in that give it a competitive advantage. Using Porter’s criteria, the paper will evaluate the mentioned activities and their relationship with the competitiveness of the organization. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) deals with an organization taking more responsibility on social aspects than the financial one, and involving itself in matters of the society and the community. CSR activities are guided by both global and national guidelines, which aim at ensuring that environmental, sustainable development and human resources issues are dealt with. CSR aims at improving the lives of the people in the community. However, also inclusive, is the quality of life of the employees, their families as well as the community in general (Wadham 2007). One of the main aims of CSR is to make sure that there exist sustainable developments in the whole society. Growth of CSR has been greatly influenced by the public organization, which demands that an organization should take the responsibility of giving back to the society. CSR activities in an organization have many benefits to the organization in many ways. One of such benefits is that organizations practicing CSR have a higher financial success that their counterparts who have a low CSR commitment. In fact, the difference is so big that, as reported in a survey carried out of 175 companies, the financial success was found to be 19 times more (Tuodolo 2009). When it comes to shareholders’ return on investment, in a survey carried out between 2007 and 2009, organizations without CSR that incurred a loss were 11 percent more than those undertaking CSR activities. Every organization’s reputation or brand is largely affected by the organization’s perception by the public. CSR is important to the success of the organizations reputational success. An organization’s involvement in the environmental, economic and social issues affects the reputation of its product both directly and indirectly. The public perceives organizations practicing CBR activities as important and as having favorable products compared to others. Simply put, organizations that campaign for CSR activities are favored more by the public as opposed to the ones that do not consider CSR as relevant. CSR is also related to the organizations success through the reporting of the organizations books of accounts (Johnson et al. 2011). Regular and reliable reporting of an organization’s activities and outcomes is part of the CSR. The public is usually more impressed and interested with an organization that is transparent in reporting of their books of accounts. An organization that puts in mind true and fair reporting is desirable to stake holders as well as the public. ExxonMobil is a US-based petroleum company. The company is much involved in CSR activities in various sectors of the economy. Among them is the field of education and research. It is