Business in the Community is an evidence-driven organisation.
Over the last 27 years, Business in the Community has conducted research across a range of corporate responsibility issues, with a particular focus on both the challenges for and the impact on business and the community and environment in which we operate.
From investigating the impact of responsible business on the bottom line, to giving advice to companies on helping the homeless and long term unemployed back into work, to helping companies act to reduce their impact on the environment, our research has informed our position, and many others’ on some of the most pressing corporate responsibility issues of the moment.
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Two thirds (67%) of business leaders believe that a more responsible economy is likely to emerge from the recession, and nearly all (97%), believe that individual business leaders must be seen to act to restore confidence which has been lost due to the financial crisis, according to a poll by Business in the Community (BITC).
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Independent analysis of participants in Business in the Community’s CR Index and their financial performance highlights the ‘Positive Return of Responsible Business’. In fact, demonstrating an outperformance of their FTSE 350 peers by between 3.3% and 7.7% each of six years.
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This report, conducted by New Economics Foundation (NEF), using the innovative application of loss aversion theory, on behalf of Business Action on Homelessness indicates that savings to Government could be £1.7bn by investing in a financial incentive for homeless people who are ‘ready to work’.
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Research conducted in partnership with DLA Piper and United Utilities for the MayDay network show 2 in 3 UK businesses unaware of the forthcoming law which will compel them to report carbon emissions.
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Based on detailed analysis of the Office of National Statistics’ Labour Force Surveys between 2000 and 2007, this is the UK’s most comprehensive investigation into the place of ethnic minority groups in the workplace and, most notably, within management.
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Business in the Community has produced a broad range of research over the past 27 years, view our archive of key research to find out more, or visit our case studies, publications, CR index or CommunityMark pages.
