The aim of this article is to reflect on the influence of social responsibility in companies' activities. The reflection is based on Ramos' (1989) theory of social system delimitation. Corporate social responsibility is justified and defended not only by companies, society and state, as a phenomenon that delimits companies' activities. However, it is also argued that social responsibility may actually end up enhancing their power rather than delimiting their activities.
Social system delimitation; corporate social responsibility; economic paradigm; paraeconomic paradigm