Festival of Governance

What role can governance play in the field of sustainability in the backdrop of growing uncertainty and of global slowdown? Why are companies not taking sustainability seriously, despite increasing awareness of the multiple links between sustainability and entrepreneurship?

Le 5 décembre s’est tenu l’événement annuel de notre centre Public Governance lors duquel il a été traité de la question : A qui l’administrateur public doit-il rendre des comptes ? Il s'agit certainement de l'un des sujets les plus difficiles à aborder dans le domaine de la gouvernance publique. Depuis 2006, avec le soutien de ses partenaires Belfius et Deloitte, le centre Public Governance de GUBERNA ne cesse de développer ses connaissances, ayant trait aux enjeux de la gouvernance des organisations publiques.

Op 4 december nam GUBERNA deel aan het event “Sociale Ondernemingen aan de slag met de Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)”, georganiseerd door Verso (Vereniging voor Social Profit Ondernemingen in Vlaanderen) in het Square te Brussel. 

A long tradition of entrepreneurial research has repeatedly highlighted the importance of the family in the genesis and transmission of entrepreneurial skills and behaviors.

Some researchers have attributed this effect to the phenomenon of role models, which explains how, within a family, parents are observed and then imitated by children, which affects both children’s goals, once they become adults, as well as their aspirations and attitudes.

The 2019 Directors’ Day provided the many GUBERNA-members with a strong and clear wake-up call, combined with a precious call to action. Digital transformation and innovation are everywhere and therefore certainly affect the way companies should be governed. Directors have an urgent duty to become more “tech-savvy”, to be more in touch with what the latest technologies can offer. As digitisation and innovation have an impact on all businesses, they can no longer be a blind spot on the agenda of a board of directors!