The last 40 years fostered the dissemination around the world of ideas and practices of corporate social responsibility, in which companies and business organizations (mainly but not only) act voluntarily in the solution of problems considered as global, and therefore shared. These companies, seen as agents of globalization, contribute to the proliferation of mechanisms of persuasion through the formation of collective subjectivities and through negotiation processes that take place in contexts of unequal power, and consequently, involve competition for hegemony between social actors with different interests and political and economic weights. This research seeks, then, to verify how this process of struggle over the ideology of socially responsible global capitalism takes place within the Brazilian state and the Brazilian civil society, based on the analysis of the creation of the United Nations Global Compact and its performance in Brazil. Our initial assumption is that the national and local actors are effective agents for globalization that link the development of global capitalism to the implementation of a social agenda and, simultaneously, allow the creation of a space for negotiation, conflict, resistance and (re) adaptation around the formulation of strategies and guidelines for transnational capital actions and companies who want to be considered as socially responsible enterprises.