 The model has been the outcome of a PhD survey, and was presented for the first time in 1995.Since then it was used in many research projects, for training and educational purposes, in consultancy assignments, and for the European Corporate Sustainability Framework (ECSF) and has been developed on request of the European Commission.It is made in co-operation with several universities and consultancy agencies, and is meant to be the basis for tools to be developed which help organizations to implement sustainability and corporate social responsibility.