Percepciones de la comunidad Cerrito de los Morreños frente a los programas de responsabilidad social empresarial de una empresa camaronera de la ciudad de Guayaquil, en el año 2024.

Abstract

This research arises as a questioning of the Ecuadorian social reality in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility in local community X in the city of Guayaquil, which has been the recipient of the impacts of the operation of shrimp company cerrito de los Morreños, therefore the main purpose of this study is to know the CSR programs that are implemented in the territory, with the intention of understanding the experiences and suggestions by the inhabitants in social, economic and environmental development, therefore it is considered essential to collect opinions of the social actors involved in the various phases of the CSR process. To specify the final investigative work, it was decided to carry out a study with a qualitative approach, whose method is hermeneutic, which allowed to reach the object of study in a holistic and systemic way, interviews and focus groups were carried out as pertinent research techniques to meet the objectives. The results show that, despite the fact that shrimp company X has carried out actions in crucial areas to guarantee human and environmental rights, crucial work has been carried out in key dimensions such as education, health, employment and environmental preservation, it was found that a number of complexities still persist in both air and water quality, in addition to difficulties in community participation and strengthening the social fabric. Likewise, many of the rights in this town are being violated by the company's operation, since certain actions affect the environment in which they are immersed daily and influence the integral well-being of the inhabitants.