The JARGONFREE project
JARGONFREE Research Group’s Contract Language research project (2024–2026) examined how contracts can support sustainable business in global supply chains. The project focused on how sustainability-related commitments and requirements are expressed, structured, and operationalised in organisational and supply chain practice. The research combined legal, linguistic and design perspectives, approaching contracts not only as legal instruments but also as communication, coordination, governance, and implementation mechanisms, with a focus on the implementation gap between what contracts say and what happens in practice.
The project worked with nine large Finnish companies operating in international supply chains: Alko, Fingrid, Hansel, LähiTapiola, Mirka, Outokumpu, Stora Enso, Wärtsilä and YIT. Analysing contracts from these companies, the project examined how sustainability-related commitments and requirements are typically formulated, where they are located across the contract stack, and how effectively they support implementation. By focusing on these issues, the project contributed to understanding and bridging the implementation gap between “words on paper” and operationalisation across organisations and supply chains.
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Our Contract Language project (2024-2026) is funded by the Kone Foundation.
The JARGONFREE Compass for Sustainable Contracting is published in collaboration with the WorldCC Foundation.