TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose–Bizkaia, an area of just over one million inhabitants, is the setting, through the xertatu project, of an experience for fostering corporate social responsibility (CSR). This document seeks to analyze the xertatu project as a local response to a new form of governance, identifying the lessons learned in its development.Design/methodology/approach–This paper focuses its analysis on a clear understanding of the need to combine not only the activities of the various organizations operating in this field in Bizkaia, but also the intentions of the agents involved, in order to shed light on the shared responsibility business has with society at large in this region.Findings–The aggregation of agents, interests and capabilities, together with a methodology of research – collective action, is suitable for fostering social responsibility in companies.Originality/value–The analysis of CSR as a new understanding of the role of business in collaborative governance, that is, as an active agent of an enabling governing style that furthermore assumes its joint responsibility with all the other agents for social cohesion and development, usually tends to lack a local and regional perspective and, therefore, the schemes that favor its implementation, whereby it could become a testing ground and benchmark for other regions.
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
SN  - 1472-0701
DO  - 10.1108/14720700810899284
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/14720700810899284
AU  - Berezo Díez Jorge
AU  - de la Cruz Ayuso Cristina
AU  - Sasia Santos Pedro M.
ED  - Gilbert Lenssen
ED  - Daniel Arenas
ED  - Peter Lacy
ED  - Simon Pickard
PY  - 2008
Y1  - 2008/01/01
TI  - Strategic local responses to global governance: the case of xertatu
T2  - Corporate Governance: The international journal of business in society
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 571
EP  - 577
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -