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RQ1 · WP1
How do varied interpretations of business purpose influence corporate action in fragile societies?
Executives, regulators and scholars mean different things by corporate purpose, and this question asks whether those meanings show up in what firms actually do where conditions are hardest.
- Work package
- WP1
- Lead
- John Katsos
- Status
- Open
The evidence so far
The first evidence is in from the executive side: STAKES Brief 01 finds the purpose agenda intact but increasingly invisible, and The Quiet and the Compliant maps the conventional wisdom it will be tested against. Fieldwork in all seven cases now tests how far that holds outside headquarters.
Cases
Colombia, Lebanon, DR Congo, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Ukraine, Indonesia