ABSTRACT
This chapter provides Colombia profiles, including key information about the relevant corporate sustainability and responsibility (CSR) history, country-specific issues, trends, research, education and leading organizations. In Colombia, the concept of social responsibility could have had its origins in Catholic teachings, where concern for the poor and underprivileged are emphasised. Colombian business leaders have collaborated in solving social problems through the establishment of foundations. CSR in Colombia can be explained by using a convergence of two different models, namely the Virtue Matrix and stakeholder theory. In rural areas, they have threatened farmers, indigenous people and people of African origin and then taken their abandoned land, leaving Colombia second only to Sudan as the country with the most internally displaced people in the world. Although the Colombian Constitution of 1991 stipulates that the private sector must have a social function, the involvement of the government in the development of policies to promote this is relatively weak.
