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  "url": "https://stakesproject.org/project/questions/",
  "language": "en",
  "type": "question-index",
  "title": "The eight research questions | STAKES",
  "description": "STAKES asks eight research questions across three work packages, from how firms interpret business purpose to what an expanded stakeholder theory says about grand challenges.",
  "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/",
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    "no": "https://stakesproject.org/no/project/questions/",
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  "questions": [
    {
      "n": 1,
      "question": "How do varied interpretations of business purpose influence corporate action in fragile societies?",
      "work_package": "WP1",
      "lead": "John Katsos",
      "status": "open",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/project/questions/rq1/"
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "question": "How are corporate social purpose initiatives understood and evaluated by local communities?",
      "work_package": "WP1",
      "lead": "Jason Miklian",
      "status": "open",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/project/questions/rq2/"
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "question": "How do European regulators set the corporate purpose agenda, and to what ends?",
      "work_package": "WP1",
      "lead": "John Katsos",
      "status": "open",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/project/questions/rq3/"
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "question": "What societal ventures do companies deliver, and how do they land on communities?",
      "work_package": "WP2",
      "lead": "Angelika Rettberg",
      "status": "open",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/project/questions/rq4/"
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "question": "What do CEOs, boards and country managers actually decide, and why?",
      "work_package": "WP2",
      "lead": "Angelika Rettberg",
      "status": "open",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/project/questions/rq5/"
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "question": "Where is the corporate purpose agenda gender sensitive, and where is it not?",
      "work_package": "WP2",
      "lead": "Jamal Maalouf",
      "status": "open",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/project/questions/rq6/"
    },
    {
      "n": 7,
      "question": "Can heightened social purpose improve a firm's strategy in fragile settings?",
      "work_package": "WP3",
      "lead": "Sarah Cechvala",
      "status": "open",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/project/questions/rq7/"
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "question": "What does an expanded stakeholder theory tell us about grand challenges?",
      "work_package": "WP3",
      "lead": "Sarah Cechvala",
      "status": "open",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/project/questions/rq8/"
    }
  ]
}