Desempeño financiero, social y ambiental de las grandes empresas ecuatorianas, sector comercio, período 2015-2019

Abstract

Abstract:Under the sustainability approach, the need to promote economic and social development and climate change mitigation is a great challenge for companies worldwide. In this sense, the research has been developed, whose general objective is to analyze the financial, social and environmental performance of large Ecuadorian companies, period 2015-2019; for which a descriptive methodology was applied, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, a panel and data were collected during the period 2015 to 2019 of the financial, social and environmental information of six large Ecuadorian companies, whose data were taken from the sustainability reports published on the websites of the companiesunder study. It is concluded that the financial variables of the six companies that were analyzed mostly show a positive ROA considered as good because it exceeds 5%; ROE varies significantly from year to year; Within the social aspect, they comply with the regulations that are related to incorporating 4% of employees who have some type of disability into their work team.