At the beginning of the 2007-2008 Academic year COS was integrated into the Department for Research, Development and Innovation at EADA as a Research Centre.
The research project currently being developed is to investigate What Small and Medium sized businesses in Spain (PYMES) do to integrate members of the immigrant community into the workforce and what they do to leverage the cultural diversity in their business model. This project is being currently worked on by members of EADA`s research Department in conjunction with the University of Barcelona.
In the Upcoming Academic year 2008-2009 a series of meetings and discussion groups will be organized around this topic. The wider consequences of immigration in local communities and the social responsibility of small and medium companies with regard to different immigrant communities will be examined.
An International Roundtable will be scheduled during the second half of 2009.
On June 12th 2008 Jose Maria de Anzizu will be presenting his book "Dirigir Empresas Sostenibles" (Managing Sustainable Companies) at EADA.

The main activity of COS since 1989 has been the organisation of a Round Table every year or two, where a selected number of professionals (managers, academics and consultants) can openly discuss a topic of worldwide interest.

Previous Round Tables have been the following:

• November 2006, Ashridge (United Kingdom) "Creating culturally competent firms: strategies for gaining from cultural pluralism"
• July 2004, Collbató (Spain) "Managing Cultural Diversity: Making It Work"
• May 2002, Nantes (France) "How global would we be? The Tension Zones of Today's Managers"
• September 1997, Castellterçol (Spain) "Emerging Organisational Dynamics: Corporate Governance for the Future"
• September 1995, Collbató (Spain) "Emerging Organisational Dynamics: What are we learning? What questions for tomorrow?"
• June 1994, Breukelen, (The Netherlands) "New Organisational Forms"
• June 1993, Collbató (Spain) "Organisations of the Future-Assumptions and Hypotheses"
• June 1992, Postdam (Germany) "Transition Management in Eastern and Central European Business Organisations"
• June 1991, Warsaw (Poland) "Management & Governance Issues in East-West Business Collaborations"
• June 1990, Leuven (Belgium) "Mergers & Acquisitions Learnings from the Practice"
• June 1989, Barcelona (Spain) "Mergers & Acquisitions: Organisational and Cultural Issues"

In 2005 we have prepared a series of meetings where we have invited members of Catalan family businesses as guest speakers who explained to us the origins, evolution and keys of success of their hundred-year-old companies.

• 16 Feb - José Mª de Anzizu, FINCAS ANZIZU
• 6 Abr - Jordi Solsona, ESCOLA D'HOSTAFRANCHS
• 10 May - Pedro Alier, ALIER S.A.
• 8 Jun- Javier Cottet, COTTET S.A
• 26 Oct- José Daniel, NESTLE
• 10 Nov- Miguel A. Torres, MIGUEL TORRES S.A