The impacts of political, economic, and social instability are dominating the external environment in which companies operate. Among growing material risks, social polarisation is now emerging as a core area that companies need to prioritise, with nearly seven in ten corporate professionals viewing it as a great risk to business. The potential risks of a polarised society are manifold, but three main areas emerge as being highly associated with polarisation: instability, greater economic inequality and slowdown, and eroding trust.
In partnership with Corporate Excellence, we have translated our latest global survey of corporate affairs professionals ‘Social Polarisation: A New Risk to Integrate for Business’ into Spanish: