Open AccessCorporate social responsibility in times of crisis: business actions during the COVID-19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Luiz Henrique Vieira da Silva,
Cibele Roberta Sugahara,
Denise Helena Lombardo Ferreira
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
independent journal of management and production
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2236-269X
DOI - 10.14807/ijmp.v12i4.1350
Subject(s) - corporate social responsibility , pandemic , poverty , tragedy (event) , humanity , social responsibility , covid-19 , business , economic growth , development economics , work (physics) , public relations , political science , environmental ethics , sociology , disease , social science , economics , law , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mechanical engineering , engineering , pathology , philosophy
Between the years 2019 and 2020, humanity was affected by one of the most serious pandemics in recent history, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The socioeconomic tragedy required the complete mobilization of governments, companies, and other organizations to contain and combat the disease. Shedding light on the role of companies, this article set out to analyze, through descriptive, qualitative and documentary research, the various manifestations of Corporate Social Responsibility in Brazilian companies during the pandemic, with the Agenda 2030 as a backdrop for Sustainable Development and related initiatives. It became evident that, while on the one hand, organizations are strongly invited to act in the containment of world events harmful to human life, by extension, socially responsible companies must bear the commitment to work together to mitigate the impacts of climate change and to eradicating hunger and poverty, equally urgent and necessary demands.