{"id":27,"date":"2016-04-15T15:37:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halinabrown.wordpress.com\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2016-04-15T15:37:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:37:03","slug":"global-reporting-initiative-gri-as-an-emerging-institution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hbrown\/research\/global-reporting-initiative-gri-as-an-emerging-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Reporting Initiative GRI as an Emerging Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This research emerged in the context of a growing interest among academics and practitioners at that time in corporate social responsibility, CSR. Some proponents of using market-based tools, instead of direct regulations, to influence the behavior of firms touted the information disclosure-based approach to be a powerful form of \u201ccivil regulation\u201d. This multiyear project, funded by the National Science Foundation, examined the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalreporting.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Reporting Initiative, GRI<\/a>, through the lens of the institutional theory, focusing on the character and effectiveness of GRI as an emergent societal institution. In collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbm.tudelft.nl\/en\/about-faculty\/departments\/multi-actor-systems\/people\/professors\/profdr-wm-martin-de-jong\/\">Martin de Young at Technical University of Delft<\/a> we tested the belief, then popular among academics and practitioners, that information disclosure can in many instances be an effective substitute to direct regulations and market-based incentives. The results of our research directly challenged this belief.<\/p>\n<h3>Related articles and book chapters<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/446\/2016\/05\/1-envir-politics-gri-2009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Brown, H.S., de Jong, M. and Lessidrenska, T. <strong>2009<\/strong>. \u201cThe Rise of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as a Case of Institutional Entrepreneurship.\u201d Environmental Politics. 18(2): 182-200.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/446\/2016\/05\/3-gri-institution-jcp-09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Brown, H., De Jong, M., and Levy, D. <strong>2009<\/strong>. Building Institutions Based on Information Disclosure: Lessons from GRI\u2019s Sustainability Reporting\u201d Journal of Cleaner Production 17(4): 571-580.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/446\/2016\/05\/4-tfsc-gmo-2008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vergragt, P.J. and H.S. Brown. <strong>2008<\/strong>. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: New Approaches to Generating Societal Consensus. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 75: 783-798.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/446\/2016\/05\/2-levy-and-brown-gri-book-chapter-2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Levy, David L. and Halina Brown. <strong>2010<\/strong>. \u201cThe Global Reporting Initiative: Collaboration and conflict in the development of non-financial reporting.\u201d In: Subhash Jain and Ben Kedia (eds.), Enhancing Global Competitiveness through Sustainable Environmental Stewardship. pp. 129-152. London: Edward Elgar<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Brown, Halina S. \u201cGlobal Reporting Initiative\u201d <strong>2011<\/strong>. In Thomas Hale and David Held, eds. Handbook of Innovations in Transnational Governance, Polity Press, pp. 91-95.<\/li>\n<li>Levy, David L. and Halina Brown <strong>2011<\/strong>. \u201cThe Global Reporting Initiative: The Promise and Limitations of Non-Financial Reporting for Corporate Governance.\u201d In: Reed, Utting and Mukherjee-Reed (eds). Business, Non-State Regulation and Development, New York: Routledge, pp. 46-60.<\/li>\n<li>Vergragt, P.J. and H.S. Brown. <strong>2010<\/strong>. \u201cGenetic Engineering in Agriculture: The Role of Small Scale Experimentation and Standardized Sustainability Reporting for Risk Management and Policy Development\u201d. In: Michael Baram Ed. Safety in Applying Genetic Engineering in Agriculture. Springer.<\/li>\n<li>Levy, D., Brown, H.S., and de Jong, M. <strong>2010<\/strong>. \u201cNGO Strategies and the Politics of Corporate Governance: the Case of Global Reporting Initiative.\u201d Business and Society 49: 88-115.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This research emerged in the context of a growing interest among academics and practitioners at that time in corporate social responsibility, CSR. Some proponents of using market-based tools, instead of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hbrown\/research\/global-reporting-initiative-gri-as-an-emerging-institution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Global Reporting Initiative GRI as an Emerging Institution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":775,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}