Corporate social responsibility in ports of Latin America

Abstract

PurposeThe activities carried out in ports are disruptive to the environment where they are located. Therefore, the objective of this work is to analyze the presence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the missions and visions of the main ports of Latin America.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative technique of content analysis was applied to the missions and visions of 72 ports in Latin America. First, the missions and visions of the ports were collected (72). Second, it was assigned a value 1 if the mission had any evidence of CSR, 0 if it had no evidence and “-” if the mission was not found. The same procedure was performed with the visions.FindingsResults indicate that 20.83% of the ports allude to CSR in their missions, 34.72% of the ports allude to it in their missions and visions and 13.88% only allude to it in their visions (22 ports did not mention it in their missions or their visions). So, the main findings indicate that in Latin America the majority of ports do not consider elements of CSR in their missions and visions.Originality/valueThis paper is mainly focused on covering two gaps in the literature: first, to increase knowledge about the strategic bases of ports in Latin America through their missions and visions; and second, to visualize the coherence of the missions and visions with the activities of CSR.

Stakeholder interaction for sustainability in seaports. Analysing the implementation and its linkages to overarching interaction efforts

“…The sustainability efforts of seaports can differ depending on the local context, ownership structure, size and operations (Dooms, 2018;Gonz alez Laxe et al, 2017;L opez-Morales et al, 2020). In addition, despite calls for holistic port sustainability approaches, scholars and practitioners have mainly focussed on economic and environmental issues such as resource efficiency and pollution of individual port organisations, while there has been less attention on the social dimension of sustainability and interaction within the port system (Denktas-Sakar and Karatas-Cetin, 2012;Fobbe et al, 2020).…”

“…While the location of an organisation is acknowledged to influence sustainability practices in general, there were no remarkable differences in stakeholder interaction for sustainability, with the exception of ports located in South American countries that had established stakeholder interaction activities with fewer stakeholder groups and focussed on stakeholder satisfaction rather than interaction. This might be due to sustainable development still being an emerging topic in South-American seaports which may affect the stakeholder interaction efforts for sustainability (Gutiérrez and Jones, 2004;L opez-Morales et al, 2020).…”