Corporate Social Responsibility and Its Impact on the Sustainable Development Goals: A Study of Mexican Companies

Abstract

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Mexican companies is an incipient concept that, in recent years, has had greater participation in the planning of companies' organisational strategies. Similarly, Mexico, as an emerging economy, has managed to remain one of the main economies in Latin America and, together with companies and organised society, has developed public policies that allow compliance with the commitment of the 2030 Agenda and the achievement of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The objective of this work is to analyse the presence of CSR in Mexican companies and its relationship with the SDGs related to economic development, for which a content analysis of the websites of the hundred most important companies in Mexico, according to the 2019 ranking of Expansión magazine, was performed. Finally, we establish that more than half of Mexican companies do not consider aspects related to CSR in their organisational development, contributing to the increase in the percentage of the population lagging behind in education, health and quality food and resulting in an increase in the levels of poverty and extreme poverty among the population of Mexico.

Citation

Huerta-Estévez, A. and López-Morales, J.S. (2023), "Corporate Social Responsibility and Its Impact on the Sustainable Development Goals: A Study of Mexican Companies", Gupta, A.D. (Ed.) Strategic Corporate Responsibility and Green Management (Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability, Vol. 16), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2043-905920230000016002