Corporate social responsibility practices at Brazilian firms

• Autor(a) principal: Galego-Álvarez, Isabel
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Formigoni, Henrique, Antunes, Maria Thereza Pompa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração de Empresas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rae/article/view/20868
• topic: Corporate social responsibility practices; stakeholder and institutional theories; Brazilian companies; HJ biplot; cluster; Prácticas de responsabilidad social corporativa; teorías institucionales y de partes interesadas; empresas brasileñas; HJ biplot; agrupamiento; Práticas de responsabilidade social corporativa; teorias institucionais e de partes interessadas; empresas brasileiras; HJ biplot; agrupamento

Corporate Social Responsibility practices have been on the rise in recent years in firms all over the world. Brazil, as one of the most important countries emerging on the international scene, is no exception to this, with more and more firms taking up these practices. The present study focuses on analyzing the corporate social responsibility practices that Brazilian companies engage into. The sample used is comprised of 500 firms grouped by geographical area; the theoretical framework is based on stakeholder and institutional theories; and the technique used for the analysis is the biplot, more specifically the HJ Biplot and cluster analysis. From the results obtained it is possible to infer that the CSR variables corresponding to environmental practices are more closely linked to companies located in the northern areas of Brazil. Social and community practices are related to companies primarily in the southern and northeastern regions of the country.