
Guillaume C. F. PainUniversité Laval | ULAVAL · Department of Management
Guillaume C. F. Pain
PhD
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Introduction
My research focuses on social and societal interactions around sustainability challenges, the organizational interpretation of ecological issues, environmental performance, and sustainability reporting. I address these topics primarily from the perspectives of organizational schemas, strategic interpretation, and institutional entrepreneurship. In line with the processual nature of the questions I investigate, my research mainly follows a qualitative, inductive approach.
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Environmental strategy research has often used organizational interpretation as a key lens for understanding how firms engage in sensemaking around natural environmental issues and environmental performance. This work has rarely empirically tested the proposed relationships of organizational interpretation in firms' sensemaking around environmental...
In policy fields where regulatory science underpins government decision making, barriers to policy learning tend to be more entrenched. Presented with new and improved scientific methods and technologies, a key question increasingly facing regulatory authorities is how best to adapt established procedures without alienating stakeholders who value s...
Despite the global toxicology community discussing New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for chemical hazard and risk assessment, such as in vitro, in silico, and ‘omics-based approaches, for some 30 years, their formal adoption by regulators remains limited. Previous research suggests that insufficient validation, complexity of interpretation, and lac...
Organization and environment scholars have extensively employed strategic cognition research to explore how managers in firms engage in environmental interpretation – i.e., making sense of and responding to issues surrounding the natural environment – yet rarely addressed the effectiveness of such responses. Applying mixed effects general linear mo...
Background:
Some 20 y ago, scientific and regulatory communities identified the potential of omics sciences (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics) to improve chemical risk assessment through development of toxicogenomics. Recognizing that regulators adopt new scientific methods cautiously given accountability to diverse stakeholders...
Background:
Given current legislative mandates to assess the safety of thousands of chemicals and the slow pace at which conventional testing proceeds, there is a need to accelerate chemical risk assessment. Governments and businesses are increasingly interested in New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) that promise to reduce costs and delays.
Aim:
W...
Schemas, the socially-shared cognitive maps that shape corporate interpretation and action, are a key concept in strategic and sustainability management. Yet, we know little about their evolution over time. Using cause mapping, we study the schemas on sustainability disclosed by the International Council on Mining and Metals and four of its member...
Increasingly, firms are integrating environmental sustainability into their business strategies. Yet, sustainability is a complex topic and many firms need to form environmental partnerships to access additional resources—in the form of investments, technologies, expertise, public image, and/or political influence—to develop competitive advantage....
À mesure que les dirigeants se rendent compte du potentiel concurrentiel des questions environnementales, de plus en plus d’entreprises intègrent les enjeux du développement durable à leur stratégie. Pour ce faire, elles doivent souvent trouver des alliés. Comment faire pour que ces partenariats environnementaux portent les fruits espérés ?
Despite thirty years of efforts toward sustainability, firms have collectively obtained limited results in their attempts to address environmental challenges. This paper offers an integrative sensemaking framework that links schema interaction to corporate environmental performance and thoroughly integrates schema interaction patterns bookkeeping,...
Despite thirty years of efforts toward sustainability, organizations collectively fail to address environmental challenges. A sensemaking framework linking organizational interpretive schemes to corporate environmental performance is proposed. This framework provides an original conceptualization of scheme interaction. It explains how cognitive mec...