Output & Deliverables for Participant Companies

By participating in the project, companies

• Learn about how well their managers understand societal expectations, and to what extent their understanding overlap with what social rating agencies, social pressure groups and other stakeholders believe your firm should do;
  
• Understand how the gaps between internal and external perception of company’s social responsibility change across different sub-units, hierarchical levels and geographies in which your managers operate;
  
• Evaluate the influence of these gaps on social performance (reputation, risk), as well as on unit-level financial performance (e.g. costs, growth, innovation);
  
• Learn about which individual values and psychological attributes are conducive of socially responsible behaviour in their organization;
  
• Assess how the findings above compare with those of other multinational corporations in similar industries and/or similar geographies; and
  
• Identify with the help of the academic group ways and means to close eventual gaps vis-à-vis societal expectations, within internal units, and vis-à-vis comparable firms.

Each company also receives a set of concrete outputs

1. A company profile based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of interviews, stakeholder consultations, web-survey and archival data
   
2. A benchmark report, comparing these results with other multinational companies in the sectors considered
   
3. A one-day onsite action learning workshop building on the results of the benchmarking report and aiming to develop a concrete action plan to fill the unearthed gaps.