Translation of "psychologie du comportement dans l'entreprise " (French → English) :

whereas, irrespective of the type of company or the sector in which it operates, a number of questions related to companies’ management are important in the general context of the deontology of business conduct, such as the duty of care, transparency, corporate social responsibility, risk management, the economic sustainability of financial investment decisions, board of directors or supervisory board practices or the exercise of shareholders’ rights; whereas the recent financial crisis showed that those questions need to be consider ...[+++]ed in the light of preserving financial stability and continuously analysed in order to help find solutions allowing companies to face current challenges and to help promote economic growth and higher employment within the EU,

That task not only includes the duty to investigate and sanction individual infringements, but it also encompasses the duty to pursue a general policy designed to apply, in competition matters, the principles laid down by the Treaty and to steer the conduct of undertakings in the light of those principles (4).

One component is the European Innovation Scoreboard, an annual presentation of quantitative data on framework conditions, the science and engineering base, firms' operational environment, and innovation behaviour within firms.

* Considerations of image and reputation play an increasingly important role in the business competitive environment, as consumers and NGO's ask for more information about the conditions in which products and services are generated and the sustainability impact thereof, and tend to reward, with their behaviour, socially and environmentally responsible firms.

Whereas point 17 of the Community Charter of Fundamental Social Rights of Workers provides, inter alia, that information, consultation and participation for workers must be developed along appropriate lines, taking account of the practices in force in different Member States; whereas the Charter states that 'this shall apply especially in companies or groups of companies having establishments or companies in two or more Member States';

First, the authors of the report analyze recent economic developments which make necessary improved cooperation between competition authorities; they thus considered that: - with the positive conclusion of the Uruguay Round leading to a progressive reduction of state-imposed trade barriers, the risk exists that these barriers will be replaced by other obstacles to international trade resulting from the behaviour of countries, e.g. setting up cartels, whose members divide world markets (in this way, each company assures the protection of its traditional national market), partitioning distribution networks of large, global companies along national borders, etc. Such behaviour, if widespread, would compromise ...[+++] the expected benefits of liberalized international trade in terms of growth and employment; - there is a growing contradiction between the increasing internationalization of economic activity and the limited territorial control exercised by national competition authorities (or by a "regional" authority such as the Commission).