SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF BUSINESS AND UNDERCITIZENSHIP GUIDELINES FOR A REFLECTION BASED ON THE CONSTITUTION

The modern business activity was born under the auspices of the exercise of private autonomy to the satisfaction of the interests of holders of the means of production. This is its meaning in the liberal State. In a democratic welfare State, which gains special semblance, in Brazil, with the 1988 Constitution, the function and meaning of the business should be resized, especially when you take into account the fact that the Brazilian society to be counted among the peripheral societies, with low levels of human development and marked by striking social inequalities. So this reflection aims to raise some guidelines for a reflection on the social responsibility of business, with reference to the board axiological fixed by the constitutional principles. This is not a conclusive text, but rather a reflection that raises questions about the social role of business in a peripheral country that signed in the Constitution the goal: to build a just and solidarity society.

现代商业活动诞生于行使私人自治以满足生产资料持有者利益的框架之下，这便是其在自由国家中的核心内涵。巴西的民主福利国家形态因1988年宪法而独具特色，在此类国家中，商业的功能与内涵亟需重新界定——尤其需要考虑到，巴西社会属于边缘型社会，人类发展水平偏低，且存在显著的社会不平等问题。因此本反思旨在围绕宪法原则确立的价值基准，为探讨商业社会责任提供若干思路。本文并非盖棺定论之作，仅为一场学术反思：它针对一个在宪法中明确载明“构建公正团结社会”目标的边缘国家，探讨商业所应承担的社会角色，并提出相关议题。