Stakeholder engagement, Csr development and Sdgs compliance: A systematic review from 2015 to 2021

Abstract

The conceptualization of the stakeholders of the companies for the fulfillment of the objectives of sustainable development is controversial, even more so, if it is approached from the perspective of corporate social responsibility and the psychology of the employees and their behavior. The existing literature and knowledge on the relationship among the stakeholder approach, corporate social responsibility and the achievement of the SDGs remain unstructured and fragmented. The objective of the manuscript is to identify and systematize scientific research on the stakeholder approach with respect to corporate social responsibility, in order to achieve business sustainability, in response to sustainable development goals and from the perspective of the well‐being of workers. Our main contribution to the literature review is to focus on all these issues together, and not in isolation. A systematic literature search is conducted following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta‐Analyzes (PRISMA). The approaches, issues and methodologies that predominate in the academic field in the last 5 years (2015–2021) were analyzed. Based on this review, we define a research agenda that synthesizes key trends and promising lines of research for further advancement of theoretical and empirical knowledge on the relationship among stakeholders, corporate social responsibility, and human resource management.

Businesses’ Role in the Fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda: A Bibliometric Analysis

“…As López-Concepción et al noted, research on businesses' contribution to the SDGs is "unstructured and fragmented" [194] (p. 2); thus, our bibliometric analysis contributes to providing a reference frame of the state of the art of this research topic, which can orientate researchers in the development of future studies. However, this work is subject to some limitations.…”

Ética y Responsabilidad Social en el sector Empresarial

“…A partir de los factores mencionados, es preciso destacar que se encontraron deficiencias que muestran debilidades en la gestión y limitaciones en la incorporación desde la perspectiva de los grupos de interés a la RSE, debido al escaso desarrollo de políticas de RSE orientadas al aspecto social, ante ello, se plantea la participación de los gobiernos respecto a políticas y principios de RSE (López-Concepción et al, 2021), así como la gestión de proyectos para administrar de manera eficaz las actividades de RSE (Al-Reyaysa et al, 2019). Por otro lado, se afirma que la gobernanza de la RSE en las corporaciones genera más transparencia en los consumidores (Dierksmeier y Seele) e influye en el surgimiento de emprendimientos responsables (Tiba et al, 2019).…”

NGOs, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development trajectories in a new reformative spectrum: ‘New wine in old bottles or old wine in new bottles?’

“…Indeed, if stakeholder theory (ST) might be considered as a segue of CSR (Carroll, 1991), these organisations emphasise the concept of stakeholders (Freeman, 1984), not only outlining specific groups but even considering actions that have a large set of stakeholders as beneficiaries (Hess et al, 2002; Matten & Moon, 2008; Waddock, 2008). Given that stakeholders' conceptualisation of the objectives of sustainable development is debated, especially regarding its relationship with CSR (Campra et al, 2020; López‐Concepción et al, 2021), it is undoubtable that the essence of an NGO is to give answers to stakeholders who cannot find them in the market and through public interventions (Weisbrod, 1988). This even extends to the entire planet, such as the case of those initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse emissions, through advocacy activities aiming to modify both market and public activities towards the respect of the environment.…”