Eva María Sotomayor Morales

Las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) como Instrumento de ejercicio de derechos

Resumen es: Las Tecnologias de la Informacion y de la Comunicacion (TIC), irrumpen de manera transversal como facilitadoras de la accesibilidad y la participacion de...

Social responsibility in the Spanish financial system

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the degree of implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies in the Spanish financial system. Design/methodology/approach – The study includes nine entities within the same organizational field to explore the pressure mechanisms that can affect the behavior of organizations. Findings – It concludes that the strategic nature of CSR is limited by the highly institutionalized character of this practice, a fact that causes isomorphic social structures among the approaches to responsibility of diverse entities. Originality/value – The results obtained are of great value to those responsible for the management bodies, as they show evidence of the need for a new approach to corporate governance policies if it is to achieve a competitive advantage in the industry, especially in the case of savings banks, where social work can play a fundamental role.

Dependency, Social Work, and Advanced Automation

In the field of dependency and personal autonomy, the new technologies play an important part. We analyze a technology which is already established in that field, the information and communication technologies (ICTs) (the main contribution of the chapter), and we reflect on the possible consequences, based on accumulated experience, of the introduction of advanced automation. Other writers investigate the digital divide and relate it to the future robotics divide. In this chapter, we reflect on the ICTs, on informal care, on personal autonomy and on the possible consequences or scope of application of automatic and robotized services systems.