Una revisión crítica de la sostenibilidad social en los marcos de la responsabilidad social corporativa y el valor compartido

Jesús Enrique Beltrán Virgüez; Aida Sanes Orrego

doi:10.31637/epsir-2024-908

Authors

Jesús Enrique Beltrán Virgüez Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3144-3720
Aida Sanes Orrego Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1255-509X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir-2024-908

Keywords:

social sustainability, social responsibility, shared value, critique, systematic review, Metanarrative, epistemology, stakeholders

Abstract

Introduction: The article develops a systematic literature review complemented by a critical hermeneutic analysis. The research questions focused on identifying references for social sustainability in the organizational field and the mechanisms used for its evaluation, aiming to determine the robustness of this notion. Methodology: Using the Scopus database, documents from 2019 to 2024 were analyzed, considering the epistemological structure, theoretical foundation, perspectives from social responsibility and shared value, and evaluation tools. Results: A trend was observed towards practical rather than theoretical application of the concepts and a disparity in the robustness of the environmental pillar compared to the social and economic aspects of sustainability. Discussion: The critical approach interpreted sustainability as a metanarrative of modernity, dominated by an objective and scientific perspective. Conclusion: It is considered that social sustainability, social responsibility, and shared value are integrated with the current economic model, which limits their effectiveness as they do not promote a reinterpretation of the relationship with the extractivist world. It calls for a reflection on the unidirectionality of social sustainability and suggests considering a more inclusive perspective, involving different actors as determinants and not merely as evaluation criteria.

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Author Biographies

Jesús Enrique Beltrán Virgüez, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Business Administrator, specialist and master in Contemporary Philosophy, currently pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Spain. I am also a research professor at the Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Uniminuto. Director of the Training and Research Center Diánoia Colombia, and university professor with more than 13 years of experience in business administration programs at undergraduate and graduate level. Member of the Nucleus of Research in Phenomenology and member of the research groups GEDESE and EREIGNIS.

Aida Sanes Orrego, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina

Industrial Designer and Master in Environment and Development from the National University of Colombia, PhD candidate in Sustainability at a Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Research professor of the Master in Environmental Management at the Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina. Editor in chief of the academic journal Agukuyaa. Member of the research group Gima and the Design Network of the University of Palermo. I am an expert in product life cycle analysis (LCA) and consultant in product redesign and circular economy. I have been a university lecturer for more than ten years, accompanying the sustainable production line in engineering faculties.

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