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Huysentruyt Marieke, Professeur Associé, Directrice Académique de l’Impact Company Lab, HEC Paris Business School

Why without value sharing, there is no social justice

Value-sharing schemes play an active role in both building and eroding social justice in the workplace. Our report takes a closer look at corporate profit-sharing mechanisms.

Tying in with World Day of Social Justice (February 20, 2026), our report “Value Sharing Mechanisms: From Optional to Indispensable?” examined the main mechanisms through which companies share value. Businesses play a central role in either strengthening or eroding social justice.

On World Day of Social Justice, we tend to assume that justice primarily depends on laws, institutions, and major political decisions. Yet an increasing share of contemporary injustice is created or corrected much closer to home: in the way companies choose to share the value they generate.

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