Cooperatives and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of the Theoretical Foundations to Understand their Articulation from the Free Enterprise
Keywords:
corporate social responsibility, cooperatives, stakeholders, shared value, social economyAbstract
The objective of this paper is to characterize the points of contact between corporate social responsibility and cooperativism, as well as to explain that cooperatives have a dual role as stakeholders and shareholders, because of an articulated model of cooperativism with the DNA of social responsibility. The methodology used in the paper was based on a systematic literature review or SLR, from a documentary analysis approach on specialized information and formal literature on cooperativism and corporate social responsibility. As a result, the paper condenses the results obtained and validates the findings to demonstrate that corporate social responsibility articulates efficiency to social values and principles. Another result explains that cooperatives and enterprises focus on society and the environment in the search for efficiency. As a conclusion, it can be evidenced that cooperatives assume corporate social responsibility as part of their very nature.
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