Organizational Culture and Social Responsibility, A Look from Latin American SMEs

Abstract

Latin America is a region with many cultural riches and ethnic diversity, with a diverse and sometimes unstable economy, with extreme political ideologies where its rulers try to implement solutions to deep-rooted problems. Under these conditions, citizens seek mechanisms to generate sources of employment, giving way to SMEs, which, in turn, incorporate business practices to stay in the competitive market. The present investigation is developed with the objective of identifying the conditions of Latin American SMEs from the approach of Organizational Culture and Corporate Social Responsibility. As the theoretical background was elaborated, experiences from different countries were randomly established, how they have put the variables under analysis into practice. The temporality of the study was defined by the consulted scientific productions themselves; each variable took into account contextualizations, approaches, models and dimensions. A meta-study was carried out based on the review of various articles searched in Latindex and high-impact databases to later characterize them, analyze their findings, and identify possible interrelationships between variables. The results effectively conclude in the identification of SME realities in various Latin American countries, conditions of the region, the imprint generated by the application of the variables studied; in addition to the selection, as a proposal, of the Denison Organizational Culture model for future comparative studies with CSR. Each variable took into account contextualizations, approaches, models and dimensions.