Halina Szejnwald Brown

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a conceptual framework that links the technical assessment of risk with psychological, sociological, and cultural perspectives of risk perception and risk-related behavior to amplify or attenuate public responses to the risk or risk event.

TL;DR: The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the best-known framework for voluntary reporting of environmental and social performance by business worldwide as discussed by the authors. But the institutional logic of this new entity, as an instrument for corporate sustainability management, leaves out one of the central elements of the initial vision for GRI: as a mobilizing agent for many societal actors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the institutional entrepreneurship framework is used to analyse three types of tactics deployed by Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) champions: discursive, material, and charismatic, and they were found to maintain balance between the individual and collective interests of their diverse constituency, between inclusiveness and efficient pursuit of technical objectives.

TL;DR: The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has successfully become institutionalized as the preeminent global framework for voluntary corporate environmental and social reporting as mentioned in this paper, and its success can be att...

TL;DR: This study highlights that technological innovation about technology as much as about people, their perceptions, and their interactions with each other and with the material world will not be reached by technology alone, but by deep learning by individuals, groups, professional societies and other institutions.