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Faculty of Management Research Workshop; Diane-Laure Arjalies, Ivey Business School
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PRISON BREAK FROM THE PERFORMANCE DEBATE: SYSTEM FRAMING OF GRAND CHALLENGES IN THE EUROPEAN RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT
DIANE-LAURE ARJALIÈS, IVEY BUSINESS SCHOOL
How do people convince market actors to address grand challenges such as climate change or the refugee crisis? This paper is a seven-year longitudinal study (2010-2016) examining how European social change agents pushed forward Responsible Investment (RI) during the unstable financial crisis environment, overcoming their doubts regarding the financial added-value of the practice. Based on these findings, we offer a theoretical model of system framing – an alternative to financial framing – and propose three transition conditions that enable its use. System framing is characterized by a shift in the motivational, diagnostic, and prognostic framing tasks typically used by change agents to convince market actors to engage with social and environmental issues. System framing aims to connect market actors to their broader socio-environmental system instead of attempting to simplify social and environmental issues. We discuss implications for research on framing, grand challenges and the role of social theories therein.
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Where
Bayes Business School, 106 Bunhill Row
3003
106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ, UK
Speakers
Diane-Laure Arjalies
An ethnographer, Diane-Laure has been an Assistant Professor (interdisciplinary appointment) at the Ivey Business School, Western University (London, Canada) since 2015. Diane-Laure aims to push the boundaries of knowledge and practice by investigating how the fashioning of new devices and/or collective actions can help transform markets towards sustainability. Over the past years, Diane-Laure has studied the emergence of responsible investing, conservation finance, impact assessment, integrated reporting, and alternative currencies, and is currently working on 1) the rise of financial technologies (e.g. crypto assets, artificial intelligence, etc.) and their impacts on society and 2) the development of Indigenous forms of business and accounting that accommodate the spiritual and cultural beliefs of Aboriginal communities.