Social Responsibility Management Tools in South America

Abstract

Social responsibility is an issue that has been gaining importance over the years, but despite this, in many South American countries, this issue is still unknown, which implies an incipient application at a social, environmental, community or government level. Regarding management tools, many of these countries are achieving that, in recent years, a large part of their companies implement them. To meet the objectives of this work, bibliographic information was reviewed, taking references from the application of these management tools management in countries such as Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile. A comparison of these countries was made and see their evolution. In the case of Peru, a mixed survey was carried out using the Likert scale and open questions, aimed at companies from different sectors. The results show that this issue is not yet very stable in the companies of these countries, but ways to establish it are being sought. but ways are being sought to establish them through institutions, universities and using social responsibility tools.