CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

This article is part of a post-doctoral research that is being conducted at the Centro de Estudos Sociais (Centre for Social Studies - CES), resulting from reflections on historical, political and economic circumstances that spurred the corporate movement for social responsibility in the world, the gradual involvement of business on social matters, sustainability of the planet that presented as possible solutions to consider and monitoring the social chaos, allowing the perpetuation of the current political-economic system under new rearticulated bases from the international crisis of capital. The theoretical framework presented here derive from the author's experience in corporate social responsibility projects in Brazil aimed at understanding the ways in which social responsibility is being taken over by portuguese companies, the role of entrepreneurs, the state and civil society organizations as the attainment of social enterprise projects in Portugal (also known as "good practice").