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Dear Colleagues,
"The Journal of Corporate Citizenship" Issue 21 is a special theme
issue:
CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP IN LATIN AMERICA – New Challenges for Business
Edited by Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira, Brazilian School of Public
and Business Administration (EBAPE), Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV),
Brazil
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Corporate citizenship (CC) and corporate social responsibility (CSR)
have become hot topics of debate for business, academia and organised
civil society in Latin America. These issues have emerged alongside
several other changes in the continent. Since the 1980s, a number of
Latin American countries have undergone broad processes of social,
political and economic change. First, there was the democratisation of
many political systems and societies. Dictatorships have been replaced
by elected governments and civil society has become stronger and better
organised. Businesses and corporations, both national and
multinational, are experiencing new pressures from regulators,
non-governmental organisations (NGOs), media and community groups to
become more transparent and to be more accountable for their social and
environmental impacts. On the economic side, many countries have
abandoned their import substitution policies, in vogue until the 1970s,
to open their markets and receive considerable foreign investments.
Exports have boomed in many countries such as Brazil and Mexico. At the
same time, numerous governments have changed their roles. Many sectors
of the economy that were formerly controlled by the state have now been
privatised and markets have seemingly become more competitive. Also,
social and environmental responsibilities seem to have become an
important issue in shaping the competitiveness of firms, especially in
some of the more attractive markets in developed countries where
consumers appear to value corporate citizenship more highly.
However, large sectors of the Latin American economy have lagged in the
past two decades, aggravating many environmental and social problems
such as deforestation, unemployment, income inequality and crime. As a
result, in certain cases where governments lack resources to make the
social investments required to minimise social problems, various
companies have stepped in as social investors to fill some of these
gaps. In fact, the movement of corporate citizenship has a basis in the
long history of philanthropy and social values related to the Catholic
tradition of the continent. In the 1980s and 1990s, especially after
Rio ’92, the CC movement took off in many countries of the continent,
incorporating other dimensions of CC, such as environmental concerns
and transparency. Nowadays, countries such as Brazil, Chile and Mexico
have developed their own culture and tools for dealing with CC and have
strong CC movements. For example, rates of social reporting initiatives
of large Brazilian companies are similar to those of the largest
companies in Europe and the USA. Some foreign companies (such as the
Dutch bank ABN AMRO) published local social reports in Latin America
before they had published them in their home country. The debate is
intense. At the meeting of the Brazilian Academy of Management
(ENANPAD) in 2005, the largest number of articles were submitted for
the track related to CC. However, even though there is a dynamic CC
discussion within countries, there is not much of a thread of
discussion among countries. Moreover, there is a lot of material in
Spanish and Portuguese on CC in Latin America, but there are few
publications available in English. The aim of this special issue of JCC
is to open the discussion in English across different countries in the
region.
Table of Contents
* World Review
* Introduction
Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira, Brazilian School of Public and
Business Administration (EBAPE), Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV),
Brazil
* Turning Point
A View of Corporate Citizenship in Latin America
Stephan Schmidheiny, Honorary Chairman, World Business Council for
Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
* Exploring Terra Incognita: Non-financial Reporting in Corporate Latin
America
Monica Araya, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, USA
* Social and Environmental Responsibility in Small and Medium
Enterprises in Latin America
Antonio Vives, Inter-American Development Bank, USA
* Corporate Social Responsibility in Large Mexican Firms
Jeanne M. Logsdon, Douglas E. Thomas and Harry J. Van Buren III,
University of New Mexico, USA
* Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America
Estrella Peinado-Vara, Inter-American Development Bank, USA
* Analysing Changes to Prioritise Corporate Citizenship: The Case of
Sustainability in Perez-Companc, Argentina
Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira, Brazilian School of Public and
Business Administration (EBAPE), Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV),
Brazil
Miguel Angel Gardetti, Center for Study of Corporate Sustainability
(CSCS), Buenos Aires
* Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America: Chiquita, Women
Banana Workers and Structural Inequalities
Marina Prieto-Carrón, University of Bristol, UK
* Corporate Social Responsibility in Brazil: The Role of the Press as
Watchdog
Veet Vivarta and Guilherme Canela, Brazilian News Agency for Children’s
Rights (ANDI), Brazil
Book Review
Diary of Events
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PUBLICATION LAUNCH
Seminar for Launching JCC on Latin America
Corporate Citizenship in Latin America: New Challenges for Business
Monday, March 27th, 2006
Inter-American Development Bank
1300 New York Av., NW Washington D.C.
Conference Center-Room CR-3
Organized by the Private Enterprise and Financial Markets Subdepartment
(SDS/PEF) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean are facing diverse issues
such as free trade treaties, corporate downsizing, offshore
manufacturing and new regulations. One of the main and newest challenges
is the demand on companies to behave in a more socially and
environmentally responsible manner. How and why companies are changing
to successfully confront this challenge is the theme of the "Seminar on
Corporate Citizenship in Latin America: New Challenges for Business."
During this seminar a Special Edition of the Journal of Corporate
Citizenship (JCC) on Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America
and the IDB publication on Corporate Social Responsibility in SMEs in
Latin America will be launched.
Registration is required.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone that you think
might be interested.
For more information and registration please contact:
estrellap@iadb.org
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available for purchase at the price of £25.00/$45.00. Postage worldwide
is gratis.
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"Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America" by Estrella
Peinado-Vara, Inter-American Development Bank, USA
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