B Corps: A Socioeconomic Approach for the COVID-19 Post-crisis

Saiz-Alvarez, José M.; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Acevedo-Duque, Ángel; Castillo, dante

Keywords: social enterprise, social purpose, LATAM, B Corporations, community-centered

Abstract

0 TOTAL VIEWS Suggest a Research Topic > SHARE ON 0 0 0 New ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE Front. Psychol. | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01867 B Corps: A Socioeconomic Approach for the COVID-19 Post-crisis Provisionally accepted The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Notify me Jose Manuel Saiz-Alvarez1, 2, Alejandro Vega-Muñoz3*, Ángel Acevedo-Duque3 and Dante Castillo4 1Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador 2Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Colombia 3Autonomous University of Chile, Chile 4University of Santiago, Chile The current global health and economic crisis caused by COVID-19 has opened the possibility to adopt the B Corp model to person-focused. Based on grounded theory, we have examined 147 organizations from 14 countries listed at the B Corp Directory for Latin America. Latin American B Corps have traits linked to family-related issues that are distinct from other B Corps located in different continents. Our main findings are that B Corps develop a more inclusive and sustainable economy to benefit society, go beyond the notion of CSR, and move away from traditional companies, as B Corps combine social development and economic growth.

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Título de la Revista: Frontiers in Psychology
Editorial: Frontiers Media S. A.
Fecha de publicación: 2020
DOI:

10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01867

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