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Francesca Colli awarded NWO XS grant

Francesca Colli has been awarded an NWO XS grant of €50,000 for her project ‘Between Compromise and Impact: EU civil society organisations and corporate accountability’. In the project, Francesca will explore how civil society organisations in the EU influence corporate governance regulations related to environmental and social issues.

About the project

Corporate governance measures are key to ensuring corporations’ behaviour meets environmental and social criteria. While civil society organisations in the EU have successfully pushed for corporate governance regulation by working with industry partners, these coalitions have also limited the ambition of legislation, implying that they have not yet reached an optimized advocacy strategy. Comparing two recent EU directives, this study investigates how civil society organisations strategically frame corporate governance issues across different issues and coalitions. The results provide exploratory input for a wider study that intends to develop a model for effective advocacy on corporate accountability and governance.

About the grant

The SSH Open Competition XS Call for proposals is specifically intended to encourage curiosity-driven and innovative research that involves the relatively rapid exploration of a promising idea. 

The characteristics of SSH-XS research are:

  • the proposed research is innovative;
  • it is not certain in advance whether the intended objectives will be achieved;
  • the result of each project contributes to the advancement of existing science and new scientific insights. 

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