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RQ3 · WP1

How do European regulators set the corporate purpose agenda, and to what ends?

Brussels has turned corporate purpose from a pledge into a legal duty, and this question follows what that regulation actually changes inside firms.

Work package
WP1
Lead
John Katsos
Status
Open

The evidence so far

Early evidence from the executive survey: European respondents treat Brussels regulation as a shield that lets social work continue as compliance, a pattern reported in STAKES Brief 01 and examined in The Quiet and the Compliant. The Ukraine and Indonesia cases follow the regulation into practice.

Cases

Ukraine, Indonesia