Political CSR at Swiss Olmpic

The aim of this project is to developing a strategy that makes Swiss Olmpic's procurement more sustainable. Swiss Olympic is the governing body of Swiss sport organizations. The 82 member organizations count more than 22.000 sport clubs with more than 1.5 million individual members.

In the project we develop a CSR concept for sustainable procurement that follows a discursive approach. "Political CSR" tries to avoid greenwashing by fully and honestly embracing CSR. Following a Habermasian concept of democracy, one of the key ideas of "political CSR" is to set standards in a globalized economy in a discursive way, i.e., to involve stakeholders in a very transparent way. We thus invite stakeholders to comment the concept and guidelines - and later publish all comments and arguements, why certain comments could not be implemented. 

We invite all stakeholders to comment the following guidelines (German):

Concept Sustainable Procurement (PDF, 154 Kb)

Guideline Apparel (PDF, 88 Kb)

Guideline Paper

The sustainable procurement concept will be implemented in the headquarters of Swiss Olympic, i.e., the headquarter will finally only buy products that follow these guidelines. The member organizations will be recommended to implement them and the IOC will be informed about the new policy.

The project is part of the research field of "moral geographies".