SEDLEX

About the project

Corporate sustainability has become an increasingly important issue for companies in all EU member states and candidate countries as they seek to balance economic results with social and environmental responsibility. The hypothesis behind the SEDLEX project is that the social economy organisations are already one step ahead in trying to balance economic and social (and environmental and democratic governance) dimensions of their activities. Social dialogue is a key driver for economic and social resilience, competitiveness, fairness and sustainable growth.

The research activities of the SEDLEX project then examines how social economy organisations use social dialogue in the management of their value driven business models in 5 target countries in three sectors: financial services, wholesale and retail trade as well as agriculture and food industries. The main outputs of the research activities of the SEDLEX project will be five country background studies, 15 case studies and a comparative final research report including best practices.