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History of Social Responsibility in Mexico: A Review of the Literature

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This article discusses the history of the Social Responsibility (SR) in Mexico are presented. When words social responsibility are used, usually refer to donations and philanthropy. Some engineers think the environment is, in their ecological responsibility. It is believed that the company in addition to fulfilling its legal obligations, is required to “return to society” a certain annual amount, thinking thus becomes the RS in a “social quota”. Late last century, the third sector or nonprofit sector in Mexico had a major expansion to increase the generation of new laws to strengthen civil society, supporting with funding to private welfare organizations to acquire legally, and either a civil partnership or private assistance institution. For the realization of this work was carried out a literature review to find a relationship between the theoretical and the empirical study of the subject.

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Pérez-Morales, J.R., Aldape-Alamillo, A., Reyes-Martínez, R.M., Hijar-Rivera, H., Castillo-Pérez, V.H. (2018). History of Social Responsibility in Mexico: A Review of the Literature. In: Kantola, J., Barath, T., Nazir, S. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 594. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_18

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