The social responsibility of nongovernmental organizations starts from the values this sector defends. Despite the social vocation, a question arises as to whether the NGOs organizations are indeed responsible to society. Proponents of social responsibility of NGOs argue that good intentions and desire to do well are not enough to assign a status of social responsible actor to an organization. Through their activities, NGOs should prove their social role, meaning involving in meeting social needs and fighting social inequalities. In addition, they should make alliances with the business community to find solutions to society’s problems and even put pressure on companies to adopt socially responsible behavior. Opponents counter that NGOs are not companies and therefore the concept of social responsibility is not relevant to the nongovernmental sector. Moreover, the non-profit-distributing character and the social nature of their activities give the idea that they are, in essence, socially responsible. In this context, the purpose of the present article is to provide an overview of the existing body of literature on social responsibility of nongovernmental organizations and identify the most relevant papers in the area and the topics of interest. A review of previous literature in the field has been carried out and 67 articles identified in 12 international databases have been investigated. The analysis highlighted that there is an obvious increase in the relevance of this issue within academic environment and several thematic trends arise in the research of the nongovernmental sector’s social responsibility.

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NGOS社会责任感

非政府组织的社会责任始于该部门捍卫的价值观。尽管有社交活动，但仍存在一个问题，即非政府组织是否确实对社会负责。非政府组织的社会责任支持者认为，良好的意愿和做好事的愿望不足以为组织赋予社会责任参与者的地位。非政府组织应通过其活动证明自己的社会作用，即参与满足社会需求和消除社会不平等现象。此外，他们应与企业界结盟，以找到解决社会问题的方法，甚至向公司施加压力，要求他们采取对社会负责的行为。反对者认为非政府组织不是公司，因此社会责任的概念与非政府部门无关。此外，非营利性分配的性质和其活动的社会性质使人们认为，它们实质上具有社会责任感。在这种情况下，本文的目的是概述有关非政府组织社会责任的现有文献，并确定该领域和感兴趣的主题中最相关的论文。对该领域以前的文献进行了回顾，并调查了在12个国际数据库中发现的67篇文章。