{
  "url": "https://stakesproject.org/es/outputs/has-your-company-gone-quiet/",
  "language": "es",
  "type": "publication",
  "title": "Has Your Company Gone Quiet, or Just Given Up?",
  "description": "Companies under political pressure are removing their social commitments from public statements while keeping the work itself alive within the company. Our survey of 400 CSR and ESG executives in the US and Europe shows who is driving the silence, what it costs, and how to keep quiet commitment from becoming quiet retreat.",
  "updated": "2026-08-02",
  "project": {
    "name": "STAKES",
    "grant": "353416",
    "funder": "Research Council of Norway",
    "funder_id": "https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005416",
    "host": "Centre for Global Sustainability (GLOBE/SUM), University of Oslo",
    "term": "2025-07-01/2029-06-29"
  },
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "alternates": {
    "en": "https://stakesproject.org/outputs/has-your-company-gone-quiet/",
    "no": "https://stakesproject.org/no/outputs/has-your-company-gone-quiet/",
    "es": "https://stakesproject.org/es/outputs/has-your-company-gone-quiet/"
  },
  "slug": "has-your-company-gone-quiet",
  "publication_type": "report",
  "authors": [
    "Jason Miklian",
    "John E. Katsos",
    "Harry J. Van Buren III",
    "Angelika Rettberg",
    "Sarah Cechvala"
  ],
  "affiliations": [
    "University of Oslo",
    "American University of Sharjah",
    "University of Tennessee at Chattanooga",
    "Universidad de los Andes",
    "University of Oslo"
  ],
  "venue": "STAKES project report",
  "publisher": "Centre for Global Sustainability, University of Oslo",
  "date": "2026-07",
  "pages": "7",
  "doi": null,
  "doi_verified": null,
  "abstract": null,
  "key_messages": [
    {
      "label": "The finding",
      "text": "A survey of 400 senior executives at large US and European firms operating in fragile and crisis-affected markets finds that the corporate social agenda is intact but has been driven underground. Firms are conserving the substance of their commitments while reducing their visibility, mostly under pressure from their own governments."
    },
    {
      "label": "The risk",
      "text": "Outsiders cannot tell quiet commitment from quiet retreat, and visibility no longer reinforces internal accountability. Commitments that no one defends in public will erode in private."
    },
    {
      "label": "The response",
      "text": "Fund the work separately from its communication, build home-government pressure into risk assessments, test impact through the eyes of affected communities, and use your youngest employees as sensors for the risks your reporting misses."
    }
  ],
  "method": "NewtonX fielded the survey from 6 May to 2 June 2026, among 400 senior professionals in CSR, ESG, compliance, legal, risk and supply-chain functions at companies with 1,000 or more employees, headquartered in the US (201) and Western Europe (199), all operating in markets they class as fragile, insecure or conflict-affected. Quotations are verbatim.",
  "research_questions": [
    1,
    3,
    5
  ],
  "tags": [
    "Corporate purpose",
    "ESG",
    "Political risk",
    "Quiet CSR",
    "Due diligence",
    "Survey"
  ],
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
  "bibtex": "@techreport{miklian2026has,\n  author  = {Jason Miklian and John E. Katsos and Harry J. Van Buren III and Angelika Rettberg and Sarah Cechvala},\n  title   = {Has Your Company Gone Quiet, or Just Given Up?},\n  year    = {2026},\n  institution = {Centre for Global Sustainability, University of Oslo},\n  url     = {https://stakesproject.org/outputs/has-your-company-gone-quiet/}\n}",
  "pdf": "https://stakesproject.org/outputs/has-your-company-gone-quiet/report.pdf"
}