ABSTRACT
This chapter provides Finland profiles, including key information about the relevant corporate sustainability and responsibility (CSR) history, country-specific issues, trends, research, education and leading organizations. Finland has a relatively homogeneous population with Swedish speaking, Russian and Sami minorities. In global comparison, the public sector in Finland is quite large despite the abovementioned privatisation initiatives. Thus, CSR has been largely implicit in nature—the state is assumed to take care of social issues. Finland became a member of the European Union in 1995 and adopted the Euro currency in 1999. Compared with Europe, Finland scores high on sustainability aspects. The social impacts, especially employment in Finland, have been a priority issue in the media. Finland has large natural resources of forests as well as large multinational forest companies. The biodiversity of Finnish forests, especially in northern Lapland, is a common subject for CSR discussion.
