The Role of Analogy in the Institutionalization of Sustainability Reporting

By Dror Etzion, Fabrizio Ferraro. Organ. Sci., 2010

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The Political Dynamics of Sustainable Coffee: Contested Value Regimes and the Transformation of Sustainability (2016, unknown): “reporting (Etzion and Ferraro, 2010).”
Accountability in a Global Economy: The Emergence of International Accountability Standards (2011, background): “Etzion & Ferraro (2010), for instance, study the role of analogies in institutional change in the context of the GRI.”
Standardization as Institutional Work: The Regulatory Power of a Responsible Investment Standard (2012, background): “Recent work highlights the complexity of standard making as a social act that involves various stakeholders (Timmermans & Epstein, 2010), whether for ISO norms (Tamm Hallström, 2000), multistakeholder standards (Fransen & Kolk, 2007), or the development of sustainable reporting standards such as the”
How Do Firms Comply with International Sustainability Standards? Processes and Consequences of Adopting the Global Reporting Initiative (2015, methodology): “As mentioned in the literature review, the GRI is becoming a powerful player in the field of CSR generally (Brown et al., 2009a,b; Etzion & Ferraro, 2010).”
The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World – A Review of a New Perspective on CSR and its Implications for the Firm, Governance, and Democracy (2011, unknown): “The legitimacy, efficiency and institutionalization of various self-regulation initiatives such as the Global Compact (Kell and Levin 2003; Williams 2004), SA8000 (Gilbert and Rasche 2007), the Forest Stewardship Council (Pattberg 2005; Schepers 2010), the Global Reporting Initiative (Etzion and Fer”
The Environmental, Social, Governance, and Financial Performance Effects on Companies that Adopt the United Nations Global Compact (2015, background): “Examples of these initiatives are the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) [2], Social Accountability 8000 [3], and the ISO 14000 [4].”
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Building Inclusive Markets in Rural Bangladesh: How Intermediaries Work Institutional Voids (2012, unknown): “…how actors bestow legitimacy on practices, products, and services (Suchman, 1995; Vaara & Tienari, 2008) by using speaking and writing (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006: 56), rhetoric (Green, 2004; Suddaby & Greenwood, 2005), or analogies and metaphors (Etzion & Ferraro, 2010; Hargadon & Douglas, 2001).”
The Process of Schema Emergence: Assimilation, Deconstruction, Unitization and the Plurality of Analogies (2013, background): “…to important organizational outcomes such as innovation (Hargadon & Sutton, 1997), learning (Neustadt & May, 1986), competitive positioning (Gavetti, Levinthal & Rivkin, 2005), problem solving (Schon, 1993), creativity (Hargadon & Fanelli, 2002), and institutional designs (Etzion & Ferraro, 2010).”
A bibliometric review of the innovation adoption literature (2018, background): “Several articles build upon theoretical concepts embedded in Neo-institutional theory and have assessed the habits [199]; memetics [200]; logic [201]; meaning [202], vision [203], analogies [204], and rationales [205] related to innovation adoption.”
Social Movements as Catalysts for Corporate Social Innovation: Environmental Activism and the Adoption of Green Information Systems (2019, unknown): “…which has relied on interviews with key activists, field-level actors, and corporate managers as well as archival data from a range of sources (Etzion & Ferraro, 2010; Carbon Disclosure Project [CDP], 2013; Knox-Hayes & Levy, 2011; Kolk, Levy, & Pinkse, 2008; Levy, Szejnwald Brown, & de Jong,…”
How actors change institutions: Towards a theory of institutional entrepreneurship (2009, background): “As the GRI's guidelines gained more acceptance, the organization reduced the extent to which it employed the analogy, emphasizing also the dissimilarities between the two forms of reporting (Etzion & Ferraro, in press ).”