La nocion de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial como articuladora de una vinculacion entre empresas, Estado y comunidades. Propuesta empresarial e implicancias politicas y sociales

The aim of this research is to analyze CSR as a proposal for a certain way of linkage between corporations and society, understanding the role of corporations in the new balance between the public and the private, their relations with the State and citizenship in different social backgrounds. We expect that the study of CSR will be helpful to portray corporations’ strategies, questioning the diverse features of this proposal and its implications. This thesis will focus -in the first place- on the conceptual and historical aspects of the phenomenon, and secondly in its implementation on three case studies from present-day Argentina. In these cases (which were chosen due to their different production types, the different social and political matrixes where they produce, the scales in which they operate and the origin of the capital) not only should we consider private actors but also identify and depict interactions between corporations and NGOs and public actors.