The increasing pressure from grand societal and environmental challenges, and the difficulty to undertake a sustainable development push companies, new ventures, hybrid and no-profit organizations, as well as public institutions to unprecedented changes.

The research line aims to investigate transformative strategies and approaches, such as sustainability-oriented systemic innovation; collaboration for sustainable development, including cross-sector and multi-stakeholder initiatives; the ecosystem of social impact finance and social businesses; entrepreneurship and innovation for impact; data for good; new governance models and new policies for impact. We also develop instruments and methods for planning, measuring and reporting sustainability and impact performance.

We study how to integrate deep-purpose into strategy, leadership, organizations and management models in order to craft new business and corporate models inspired by the intent of blending profit and purpose objectives preserving integrity.

We orient our research to deepen specific sustainable development challenges such as the sustainability of the agri-food system, labour conditions, health and safety, sustainable investment and impact finance, social innovation, innovation in developing countries.