Fátima Guadamillas Gómez
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Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Mario J. Donate Manzanares
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Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Summary
This work analyses the way a firm can integrate ethical principles and corporate
social responsibility (CSR) initiatives into its innovation strategy. With this aim, the case of the Indra
Company is studied. This enterprise, which is technology and innovation
intensive and whose main resource is its knowledge base, has developed a explicit
process for the integration of these values and actions into its corporate and
innovation strategies. Some of the factors which have been implicated in this
process are: the promotion of ethical principles through its corporate culture,
the human resources practices which promote the access to and the transfer of
knowledge, and its relationships with its stakeholders which encourage the
creation of knowledge and innovation, jointly with the ethical values which
intrinsically go linked to these as well.