A ação social nas fundações e institutos empresariais: o caso do Rio de Janeiro

• Autor(a) principal: Mansur, Maria Cecília Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/16056
• topic: Productive Restructuration; Social responsibility; Foundations business; Reestruturação produtiva; Responsabilidade social; Fundações; Institutos empresariais; Ação social; Fundações, doações e obras de caridade Rio de Janeiro; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

Our work consisted of an investigation of the emergence and characteristics of foundations and corporate offices in Rio de Janeiro. We understand that this is a phenomenon that is occurring not only in Brazil but in many countries, in the face of this capital to be a response to the worsening social issue in the current historical moment of capitalism after its crisis in the 1970s. For the development of our thesis, we grabbed a theory about the historical conditions, economic, social and political that span the juncture of the crisis and its responses, namely neo-liberalism, the restructuring of production, the advent of financial globalization and more specifically in Brazil, the counter-reform of state under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC). In the context of state reform, the so-called third sector and corporate philanthropy gained strength, being socially legitimized. We believe therefore that the "third sector" and called "social responsibility" are responses to social capital. However, we pause specifically in the study of social actions carried out by companies through its social arm, formed by corporate foundations and institutes, which have posed as members of the so-called third sector, which for us it is a recent phenomenon as well as a new actor who emerged in civil society contemporary.