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Social responsibility arises as a measure of the corporate policy that goes beyond the production activity, thus covering also the social and environmental activities. This issue has been gaining
importance over time. The number of companies that are implementing socially responsible actions
has been growing steadily even though it is still centered on large and medium sized companies. Social
responsibility is an accessible theme to any company of any size, once the social and environmental
issues are resolved through concrete actions, but in the small and micro-sized companies there are
factors that inhibit such actions. Some of these factors are: reduced investment capacity; minimal
expectations of medium to long term returns; or even the short-term management focus that is aimed at
survival. Such facts can be verified in the case of Portuguese companies, where out of the 41
companies certified by SA 8000 only 5 are micro-sized or small and even these are linked to large
organizations.
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Corporate social responsibility Dimension SA 8000