Reconfiguring Environmental Performance Governance Beyond Disclosure: A Framework for Emerging Economies

Abstract

This study proposes the Global Reporting Initiative–Environmental Performance Integration (GRI–EPI) Framework as a gap from existing studies paying insufficient attention to the governance mechanisms through which disclosure. The Framework explains how global reporting regimes interact with national regulatory contexts and organizational governance structures to enable the integration of environmental performance into strategic and operational decision-making. This study synthesizes global sustainability reporting standards, governance and development literature, and national policy contexts, with Indonesia employed as an illustrative application of typical emerging-economy conditions. The framework explicitly specifies key governance parameters—including decision-level entry points, authority coupling, incentive and accountability linkages, and institutional mediation—that condition whether sustainability disclosure becomes decision-relevant or remains symbolically decoupled from performance. The framework identifies key governance pathways and baseline integration conditions necessary for translating disclosure into performance-oriented outcomes.