Value

Leading Movement

What leads to success today? Clients, partners, investors and other market participants are increasingly concerned with a company’s credibility and transparency. Next to service, product, and the quality of a working relationship, the impact of companies on the living environment and economy is becoming progressively important.

The Responsible Business Forum brings together well-known and leading Estonian companies that value progress in multiple sectors:

• Natural environment – awareness of your company’s impact on nature is important because an individual can only do a fraction of what industries and business sector could achieve by developing an environment-friendly plan of action.
• Social environment– companies do not exist in a vacuum but are always surrounded by communities where users and developers of their products and services can be found.
• Work environment– valuing an employee means valuing work. Business world giants like Google, owe a big portion of their success to developing a work environment that puts the individual first.
• Market environment– honesty and transparency in collaboration with consumers, suppliers, and partners demonstrates credibility in local as well as international markets.

The Index questionnaire was created based on these topics.

• Tuuli Pärenson, PhD, impact assessment expert
• Tarmo Meresmaa, AS PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisors, leading consultant
• Maris Ojamuru, Sustinere OÜ, partner
• Elina Rääsk, VEF founding member
• Mari Kooskora, EBS Head of the Business Ethics Centre
• Kristiina Esop, VEF CEO

Recognition with the accompanying certificate and label do not mean prominence only on a local level. VEF is a part of an international network, thanks to which the responsible values are becoming a business standard.

See who were given quality labels in 2017