Influence factors of the Enterprise's Social Responsibility Development: A case study of the hotel and tourism sector in San Carlos, Costa Rica

 

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Autori: Martínez Villavicencio, José, Brenes Sánchez, Ronald, Araneda Fornachiari, Ximena, Jaubert Solano, William
Natura: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Data di pubblicazione:2015
Descrizione:In the last years, small, medium and big companies from Costa Rica have intensified their interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Given the sustainability and survival growing urgency in modern society, commercial activity assumes responsible and integral actions on the country development. The aim of this article is to identify the driving factors of CSR, which are, specifically, consumers, suppliers, community, environment, competitiveness and financing, to formulate management models and measurement indicators that could be used to influence and ease the responsible task of a company. For this purpose, we perform a case study within 16 hotel enterprises in La Fortuna de San Carlos, applying a qualitative methodology by semi-structured interview means. Our results indicate that the main driving factor of CSR is the consumers; in second place, the environment, while we found that suppliers and community don’t have relevant effect as a driving factor of CSR. This information allows us to support the creation of social policies and sustainable regional tourism.  
Stato:Portal de Revistas TEC
Istituzione:Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas TEC
Lingua:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/2431
Accesso online:https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/tec_empresarial/article/view/2431
Keyword:Responsabilidad social empresarial
factores impulsores
sostenibilidad turística
pymes
Corporate Social Responsibility
driving factors
sustainable tourism
SMEs