Documents supporting corporate sustainability
Companies implement the requirements of corporate sustainability among other things with various documents - with written commitments, policy documents, Codes of Conduct and contracts. We analyse the company's existing documents and give recommendations on their content, whether they adequately support the company's work on corporate sustainability. Sometimes some updating or even a new document is needed.
Documents have an important role in corporate sustainability
The company's various documents have an important to show the intent and expectations of the company in the area of corporate sustainability toward different stakeholders, including the own work community and partners of cooperation. In recent years there have been increasing demands, for example, of shared responsibility and responsible contracting.
We analyse the documentation relevant for corporate sustainability and give concrete recommendations to improve it in order to make it to support efficiently the actions in the area, include to prevent corporate sustainability risks from materialising.
Merja Pentikäinen from Opinio Juris is involved in the so-called Jargonfree research project, which is studying responsible contracting and is funded by the Kone Foundation and coordinated by the University of Tampere.