Different collaborations have been established with companies like GDFSuez, GSKBio and Belgacom. The main objective of such collaborations is to develop the concepts and the tools of a cultural transformation of companies with respect to CSR and sustainable development. The idea is to help leaders and staff to make evolve gradually the values, the strategy and the behaviors in this field, notably by exchanging practices and establishing co-operations or synergies with other companies.
- Belgacom (closed in 2011): A three-year Chair in action research in CSR and Responsible Leadership has been established between Belgacom and the Louvain School of Management. This Chair allowed the recruitment of a post-doc researcher, Manal El Abboubi.
- GDF SUEZ (closed in 2013): The partnership with GDF SUEZ has been extended for 2 more years and aim at a better understanding of what will be the brain and the heart of future managers in relation with that growing importance of sustainable development and CSR matters.
- GSK Biologicals, in 2006 and 2007, the Louvain CSR Network (more specifically, François Maon and Benoît Gailly) was associated to GSK Biologicals in GRLI meetings in order to unfold a strategic CSR agenda in this pharmaceutical company based on a complete auditing of GSK’s CSR practices.