The social impact as a validation factor for organizations

The article aims to highlight how the social impact should be consolidated as the main factor of validation for organizations, based on an organizational purpose that validates for the society the existence of a company integrated in a specific social context. For this, a bibliographic review of the concepts of problem and necessity is made from theoreticians of the consumer economy, and from the notions about the subject expressed by contemporary sociologists and philosophers. Subsequently, the concepts of economy and the common good formulated by the civil economy are discussed, arguing the possibility that business innovation can be articulated in a certain way to dynamics of social innovation, with concrete experiences such as the B Corp and the Economy of Communion. In this way, companies could be configured as a social actor with which a community establishes relationships by sharing a common social purpose.