La responsabilidad social empresarial en la era del pacto global: el desarrollo a través de la empresa privada

The purpose of this research is to analyze the impact that Global Value Chains (GVC) have on the type of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) carried out by some Colombian companies and, particularly, the Global Compact. It is a qualitative research that prioritizes experiences, opinions, motivations, and interpretative frameworks of key informants collected through in-depth interviews. It suggests that the ways in which companies adopt CSR are influenced by the international networks in which business leaders belong, by the type of governance and the place that companies occupy in GVCs. CSR transforms the way in which companies relate to society, for example through its operationalization through communities to intervene from CSR programs or business foundations. However, this work proposes that the importance of the Global Compact lies in three reasons: (i) because it promotes global discourses that advocate and allow CSR to maintain its voluntary character, (ii) because, as an institution, it has the capacity to negotiate with some state entities, and (iii) because in the promotion of Sustainable Development Objectives places companies and businesspeople in a leading position in development. This means that it establishes guidelines for communitiesþ interventions in which the meanings of poverty, education, and decent work, among others, are dictated. It is concluded that CSR, in its various forms, generates a gray area in which the capacity of the state is limited and the communities receiving such programs are left unprotected and with increasingly restricted possibilities to exercise and protect their rights.

• Autores: Jiménez Nicholls, María Camila
• Fecha de publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad de los Andes
• Repositorio: Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/50846
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/1992/50846
• Palabra clave: Responsabilidad social de los negocios; Industria; Sostenibilidad; Sociología
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/