Corporate Social Responsibility towards the implementation of environmental practices in Ecuador

Abstract

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) promotes actions in the economic, social and environmental fields, resulting in favorable results not only for the company and society, but also in responding and adopting measures for sustainable environmental management in the face of the effects caused by production processes. With a view to identifying, summarizing and analyzing the implementation of corporate social responsibility towards environmental practices in Ecuadorian companies during the period 2017 to 2020, the information of 13 journal articles indexed in databases of Scopus, ScienceDirect, Doaj, Dialnet and Google Scholar is analyzed and systematized, on the contexts of: Knowledge and compliance with corporate social responsibility; Dimensions of corporate social responsibility towards environmental management and; Good environmental practices. The main results show that, as there is a lack of knowledge about the application of corporate social responsibility, it leads to the implementation of strategies that favor economic and social practices, leaving aside environmental practices. It concludes in the commitment that companies have to implement practices that balance economic growth, social welfare, rational use of natural resources and environmental preservation.