Abstract

NICOLAU, Isabel  and  SIMAENS, Ana. Corporate Social Responsibility and its impact on the social economy. Rev. Portuguesa e Brasileira de Gestão [online]. 2008, vol.7, n.1, pp.68-76. ISSN 1645-4464.

Corporations materialize Social Responsibility (CSR) transferring resources from private to Social Economy sector. Corporations can choose several modalities to make this transfer but the choice is not indifferent to the corporations and has impact on Social Economy organizations. The aim of this paper is to analyze the possibilities, requirements and limitations of each modality for the Social Economy organizations, as well as the impact on the dimension, organization and innovation of the offer and competitive structure of the sector. The potential impact on the autonomy of the organizations is also discussed. The main conclusions are that each modality has a different impact on the sector and challenges the Social Economy organizations to improve management capabilities and requires cultural openness to deal with new realities. The autonomy depends mainly on the nature of there lationship between partners, and this is a subject to be developed.

Keywords : Social Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility; Organizational Management.

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