Companies in general and family businesses in particular engage in local collaborations in rather diverse areas through their corporate social responsibility activities. The COVID-19 pandemic has made these contributions to community improvement more apparent, suggesting a paradigm shift. This conceptual paper proposes a reflection about the evolution of the corporate social responsibility activities linked to family businesses in emergencies and from the socioemotional wealth perspective. The contribution of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it provides an in-depth reflection on the evolution of philanthropy, posing the following questions: are we witnessing a reinvention of corporate social responsibility within the framework of family businesses because of the global pandemic; does this new trend deserve support, given the fundamental role that family businesses have played in this situation; and if so, what should such support consist of, and what is the optimal channel for articulating it? Secondly, the paper proposes a theoretical framework from the socioemotional wealth perspective to advance research about corporate social responsibility carried out by family businesses. Business families are more likely to implement strategies that promote ethical behavior and CSR activities in their companies. The pandemic situation has created new possibilities for developing CSR.

Ante los problemas que pueden surgir al articular las libertados comunitarias en el marco del mercado interior de bienes y servicios afectados por el creciente e imparable proceso de digitalización, el Derecho privado, por su parte, responde con nuevas normas que, cada vez con mayor intensidad, unifican aspectos donde se presentan discrepancias entre los sistemas de los distintos Estados Miembros. Pero, ante la dimensión claramente transfronteriza del tipo de relaciones existentes, el acervo del Derecho internacional privado de la U.E existente conserva una importante función, afinada por el TJUE, en la senda hacia el establecimiento de una soberanía digital europea. En el presente trabajo se examinan, desde la perspectiva de esa jurisprudencia, los avances más relevantes, desde la perspectiva de la responsabilidad, tanto contractual como extracontractual, en relación con ese mercado.