LaBES faculty frequently participate in debates on economics, geopolitics, communication, sociocultural, organizational and labour market issues. They lecture on these matters, write books/papers and articles for academic Journals and newspapers; They are members of international academic associations and policy institutes as well as they are regularly contracted to carry out cutting-edge reserach.

Furthermore, participants maintain close relationships with professional partners and policy-Makers in order to ensure that the LaBES'activities remain relevant and topical. LaBES group study a large variety of phenomena and processes in a wide array of societies, but the similarities in the groups' theoratical approaches, data collection, research design and analysis form a common framework for the intended research programs. Within this framework, the following main objective points of attention guide the research in the various disciplines:

• To promote consistency and best practices in corporate social responsibility and governance.
• To convene a multi-stakeholder dialogue on public measures to support efforts of organizations to take the responsibility and to apply ethics in their operations and prodcution.
• To devlop transparency codes and frameworks.
• To encourage adherence to stronger social, cultural, labour and environmental standards of ethics
• To provide incentive programs for business and labour that build a culture of compliance, equality, cohesion and rationalization.
• To examine the differences in access to and control over resources affecting peoples' opportunities in workplace and life, such as educational/training level, labour-market success and differences in lifestyle.
• To study the effect of resources on socio-economic achievement and on how variation between and within states is affected by structural differences and national policies.
• To examine the extent to which corporate groups show exclusionist attitudes and behaviour towards particular groups.
• To study the reception and interpretation of corporate representations of social responsibility and ethics by shareholders, stakeholders, consumers and the public.
• To encourage cooperation and improve effectiveness, such as norms for voluntary CSR disclosure, allinaces among players, database sharing.
• To provide a forum towards the creation of a critical mass of social enterpreneurs working in all areas of social value generation whose know-how can be drawn upon and supported - individually or collectively by the public private and citizen sectors.
• To obtain grants for research and studies on pertinent to the LaBES objectives in EU and other bodies.