Responsabilidade social corporativa em redes de suprimentos: um estudo no setor calçadista gaúcho

Abstract

This thesis proposes to discuss how the organizational network relationships structure impacts the corporate social responsibility of the supply network from the organization Bibi Shoes LTD which is located in the city of Parobé/RS and integrated of Gaucho´s footwear sector. The research is descriptive, explanatory and exploratory because in addition to describe how it behaves in the network relationships structure of the gaucho’s footwear industry organizations from Bibi Shoes LTDA also explains the weighted impact that the constructs synthesized by scheme conceptual-theoretical proposed by this thesis have on the model of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) considered the unit of analysis. It is an exploratory study concurrently because the questioned phenomenon that deals with the impacts of networked relationships of structure on CSR still does not appear in the academic literature with proper clarity and theoretical soundness or empirical. The search methodology, initially, it uses the identification and calculation of centrality networks metric obtained by primary and secondary collections stakeholders with suppliers and customers of the production network analysis and finally, after obtaining these data from the network, and the independent variables for this study summarized in the conceptual-theoretical scheme (i.e. stakeholders and isomorphism), the accumulated data set was submitted to statistical analysis of multivariate regression for the necessary confirmatory and reflective analysis were synthesized. The results showed that the constituents constructs of network structure impact the CSR weighted manner and therefore it is suggested that these constructs are included in the CSR model making it a theoretical model focusing beyond the corporate intraorganizational only, but also focusing in network interorganizational relationships. As future chalenge of this line of research, it is proposed that the studies on management of corporate social responsibility in corporate networks inlcude the tipology of social network analysis because, from this perspective networks, will be able to be construed formal and informal qualitatives attributes networks that also impact CSR and therefore advance in the theoretical knowledge of corporate social responsibility even more.