SustainCase: How ABB ensures business integrity

Case study: How ABB ensures business integrity


ABB is a global technology leader in power and automation, with customers in over 100 countries and approximately 135,000 employees. As a result, ensuring business integrity, building an ethical culture for both its employees and the company’s business partners, is a key priority.


Creating a culture of ethics, integrity and compliance for both its employees and its business partners is a top priority for ABB. In order to ensure business integrity ABB took action to:

• prevent non-compliant behaviour through training and communication

• detect integrity issues through anti-bribery reviews and a range of reporting channels

• show zero tolerance for non-compliance and corruption

• promote integrity in the industries in which ABB operates


Using the GRI Standards in order to maintain and increase the value of your company


With each publication in this series the FBRH team will highlight one key impact identified by a company reporting in accordance with the GRI Standards and show how it has taken a structured, systematic approach to improving performance. With such positive action companies build trust, by dealing responsibly and conscientiously with their impact on the environment and on their stakeholders (e.g. clients, suppliers, shareholders, local communities, NGOs or local government). Stakeholders that can hold it back or stop it from reaching its objectives


By building trust your company creates loyalty and long-term commitment to its services and brands