Skip to main content
Go to the home page of the European Commission (opens in new window)
English English
CORDIS - EU research results
CORDIS
Content archived on 2024-05-29

Understanding and responding to societal demands on corporate responsibility

Objective

The research program proposed by the RESPONSE consortium aims to study the nature of societal demands on business organizations' decisions and actions from a business strategy perspective. Two are the overarching questions that will be addressed. First, wh at do companies understand as their responsibilities towards society, and how does that differ from the actual expectations from social actors? Two, how can companies cope with both rising societal demands on their activities and with a consequently wider gap between what they are prepared to contribute and what society expects from them? The consortium is planning to tackle these research questions from two distinct levels of analysis, the business organization and the individual manager. In the former per spective, the research partners will leverage on recent developments in organizational sociology, evolutionary economics and business strategy in order to focus on how the firm perceives and manages the different types of societal demands coming from a div erse group of actors (government and local authorities, social pressure groups, social rating agencies, employees and unions, supply chain partners, and so on). At the individual level of analysis, they will rely on recent advancements in cognitive and soc ial psychology, in fields as diverse as the psychology of emotions, neurology, ethical decision-making and consciousness studies. In addition to leveraging on cutting edge knowledge from diverse areas of social science, the research objectives and methodo logy of the consortium have been designed to pursue academic contributions not only to the debate on corporate social responsibility, but also to at least some of the disciplines the program is building on. Among them, business strategy, evolutionary econo mics, organizational sociology (institutional theory in particular), business ethics and organizational behavior. At the same time, the RESPONSE consortium is conscious of#'

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.

You need to log in or register to use this function

Keywords

Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)

Topic(s)

Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.

Call for proposal

Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.

FP6-2002-CITIZENS-2
See other projects for this call

Funding Scheme

Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.

STIP - Specific Targeted Innovation Project

Coordinator

INSTITUT EUROPEEN D'ADMINISTRATION DES AFFAIRES
EU contribution
No data
Total cost

The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.

No data

Participants (5)

My booklet 0 0