Įmonių socialinės atsakomybės įtaka regioninei plėtrai
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2013 |
Regionams tampant ekonominio ir socialinio gyvenimo pagrindu, įmonės į savo veiklos strategijas turi įtraukti nacionaliniu ir regioniniu pagrindu susiformavusias vertybes bei socialinius poreikius. Kompanijos, ypač tarptautinės, turi suderinti regioninę integraciją su regionine atsakomybe. Straipsnyje analizuojama įmonių socialinės atsakomybės, kaip regioninės plėtros strategijų priemonės, koncepcija. Pagrindinė suformuluota išvada – įmonių veiklos rezultatai ir regionų išsivystymas yra glaudžiai susiję.
Systemic processes of rapid technological change, enhanced capital mobility and neoliberally inspired inter-regional competition have focused attention on the need for regional-level intervention among a broad community of academics and policymakers (Coe et al., 2004). The shift to knowledge-intensive economy goes beyond the particular business and management strategies of individual firms, involving the development of new inputs and a broader infrastructure at the regional level (MacLeod, 2001). The nature of this economic transformation makes regions key economic units in the global economy. Regional competition is about both the emerging importance of regions as territorial units in global competition and the increase in co-ordinated actions within regions to improve competitive position compared to other areas. It should be noted that there is not enough attention to the differential impacts that globalization can have on regions belonging to the same country. For instance, most existing literature concentrates on those regions which were harmed by global forces, and lost jobs to emerging countries, often because they specialized in some sectors (such as European textile sector) where the low-cost competition from emerging countries was so important that it significantly hit the pre-existing strengths of regions specializing in traditional manufacturing activities (Affuso et al., 2011). In addition, globalization diminishes those factors, through which various nations, regions and places are identified from one another as separate culture entities; accounts on globalization and strategy have emphasized the need for regionalization. The regions became the basis of the economic and social life, operational strategies of company’s need to fit their strategies to national, regional and local socially constructed needs and values. [...]