Center for Business in Society (CBS)
Director: Joan Fontrodona
We are committed to interdisciplinary research in areas including corporate social responsibility, the responsible use of artificial intelligence, social innovation, social entrepreneurship, regional development and stabilization, peacekeeping operations, CIMIC, corporate intelligence, and ethical decision-making in complex and uncertain environments.
Our objective is to advance scientific research while providing valuable insights to business leaders, government officials, and policymakers.
We seek to generate action-oriented knowledge through a multidisciplinary and integrative approach that fosters dialogue and the exchange of ideas among business, government, and policymaking communities at both the national and intergovernmental levels.
Over the past 10 years, our Center has secured research funding in the European Union and the United States, including Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships, Horizon Europe projects, grants from the Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, and Swiss governments, and funding from the Atlas Foundation (US), among others.
Objectives
- Develop innovative models for responsible decision making.
- Develop new models for responsible leadership.
- Develop new models for the responsible use of AI and new technologies.
- Develop well-founded concepts and arguments as a basis for the positive impact of business activity on society.
- Create corporate cultures that favor human development and responsible leadership.
- Help to understand the relation between business, society and the environment and inspire management procedures with competitive advantages.
- Encourage business to be governed by the criteria of responsibility and sustainable development.
- Promote dialogue between business and its stakeholders, to encourage innovative behavior and responses to societal demands.
- Support territorial development and stabilization in particular in situation of extreme environmental and geopolitical danger and complexity.
Board of Patrons
Jordi Canals, Board of Patrons President
Research lines:
- Responsible Decision Making
- Responsible uses of AI
- Social Innovation and Territorial Stabilization
- Sustainability and senior governing bodies
- Social responsibility and economic value
- Corporate Intelligence and Responsible Decision Making
- Humanistic Management in business and in society
- Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
- Values, codes of conduct, accreditations and ethical-social audits
- Company-stakeholder dialogue for innovation
- Public administration and sustainable companies
- The company as a social institution
- Globalization and corporate social responsibility
- Ethics and corporate governance
Researchers.
Researchers.
Dr. Florin Armasu
Research Fellow
Khodr Badih
Research Fellow
Rosa Fioravante
Visiting Senior Researcher
Prof. Giuseppe Giura
Senior Research Fellow
Silvia King
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Fabio Licata
Research Fellow
Alessandra Migliore
Research Fellow
Tommaso Ramus
Senior Research Fellow, Professor, ESSEC Paris
Gaetano Vecchione
Visiting Associate Professor
Bai Yan
Research Fellow
Boyang Zhang
Research Fellow