Measuring the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility – Does CSR matter?

Jette Steen Knudsen is a member of the steering committee of a unique research project that measures the impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): www.csr-impact.eu. Jette is also responsible for the Work Package that highlights recommendations to business and the policy level. The project is titled

Measuring the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility - Does CSR matter?

On 29 July 2010 the Öko-Institut and EABIS, together with a consortium of fourteen leading European research institutions, launched the project website. Until March 2013, the "Impact Measurement and Performance Analysis of CSR" (IMPACT) project will ask, and attempt to reply to questions such as: What benefits does CSR actually bring to the economy and society at large? How can managers, policy-makers and stakeholders better measure and analyse its outcomes? What does this mean for smart mixes of public policies and corporate strategy? Read more in the full press release.