Projects

What activities do European business schools undertake to equip current and future managers with the skills and competencies to manage diversity in the workplace?
What are the societal and stakeholder demands on business decisions and actions?
How to bring CR into the heart of management development and learning across all disciplines?
“Global CR leaders of tomorrow: the skills we need – are we building them?”
What is the role of business in society? What is the social responsibility of corporations, besides providing products and jobs?
How does the environmental, social and governance performance of companies impact their long term business success? And how do companies overcome the obstacles that stop the investment community from taking environmental, social and governance performance into account in assessing long term sustainable value creation?
How can the systematic management of stakeholder interactions provide unique resources to create value - and reduce risks - for the constituents of the firm?
What are the distinctive characters of Corporate Responsibility oriented governance? And what is the relation to predecessors such as the welfare state and the neoliberal governance model?
How work social entrepreneurial initiatives in the real world and can they compete or even collaborate with purely profit-driven business?
The full project name is "International Research Network on Social and Environmental Aspects in Business and Management". Running for three years, it was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Research and Education.
Led by the Leon Kozminski Academy this project is supported by the Central Eastern University Business School, the Graduate School of Management St Petersburg State University and CSR Ukraine.
The project’s main focus is to develop an understanding of the leadership beliefs, practices and roles that translate Corporate Responsibility (CR) into integrated organisational and social practices and outcomes.
This co-operative and interdisciplinary project focuses on the effective implementation of environmental and social supply chain policy within companies. This project is part of the EABIS Corporate Funded Knowledge & Learning Programme.
“Impact Measurement and Performance Analysis of CSR”
The core non-financial performance areas and the contributing ESG factors are often part of companies’ internal strategic story. But why do they rarely feature in the dialogue between companies and investors? How can companies effectively measure and manage performance in these areas?
In May 2011, EABIS, Rutgers University and Johnson & Johnson are launching a new global thought leadership initiative on health decision-making in the global context. The inaugural event will be hosted by Rutgers in New Jersey, US, on May 20-21, 2011.
EABIS actively seeks Expressions of Interest for the design and delivery of innovative PhD research and training programmes.
As corporate responsibility (CR) has evolved in the public and private spheres, we have noted a growing concern not just with how to operationalize corporate responsibility, but importantly how to influence others to pay heed to social, environmental and economic responsibilities.
Measurement of Corporate Responsibility: Linking Financial and Social Performance and Value
Consumer Perceptions of Corporate Responsibility Activities: Consumer Attributions and the Halo Effect
On the “state of the art” of diversity in research, teaching, student affairs and institutional policy.
Connecting macro-economic perspectives with corporate governance and corporate strategy.
Curriculum Development for Mainstreaming Corporate Responsibility
The assignment for this project was formulated as: “Investigate various alternative pedagogies that business schools, companies and other organisations can and are using, to teach CR and explore how they might be brought into the mainstream of business and management learning”.
Economic conditions have focused line managers’ attention almost exclusively on operational functioning and efficiency.
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises & Corporate Social Responsibility: Identifying the Knowledge Gaps.
Development and application of the relational state and its implications for corporate responsibility.
Providers and commissioners of healthcare are under pressure to meet escalating demands for high quality, and cost effective services. The ability of nations to meet this challenge has significant implications for the wellbeing of its citizens and for economic performance.
An overview and funding proposal from The INSEAD Social Innovation Centre in collaboration with EABIS.
Despite the success of its first 10 years, the UN Global Compact remains for many of its signatory organisations a statement of intent. A commitment to achieve ambitious goals to varying degrees, by internal change processes at the strategic, operating, and/or cultural levels.
Trust in business has plummeted. The 10th annual edition of the Edelman Trust Barometer [2009] reveals that overall, 62% of respondents trust business less than they did a year ago.
This research project seeks to deliver empirical analysis of the (potential) market size for so-called Enabling Technologies in Europe, in relation to the evolution of global markets.