%0 Journal Article %T La responsabilidad social corporativa: £¿una estrategia de cambio hacia un modelo ¨¦tico de desarrollo? %A Romero %A N¨¦stor %J Revista de Ciencias Sociales %D 2010 %I Universidad del Zulia %X the international conference on £¿the pending ethical agenda of latin america,£¿ held on december, 2003, in montevideo, uruguay, with the participation of international institutions such as the inter-american development bank, universities and renowned economists, such as nobel prize winner amartya sen, are evidence that the prevalence of economic over social and human aspects, a distinctive feature of the neoliberal development model, is being questioned and proposals for change based on ethical principles that have been embraced by the united nations under the name of £¿world pact£¿ are being presented, providing a base for the management strategy called corporate social responsibility. thus, a critical and hermeneutic analysis of this strategy and its underlying principles is justified in order to study its potential to enact changes in the development model. as a result of this study, contributions, limitations and new questions were detected, allowing the authors to make proposals for an ethical concept of development. %K social responsibility %K corporate social responsibility %K business social responsibility %K management change strategy %K ethical development model. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1315-95182010000300007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en