My paper's insights hold not only for sustainability standards but also for a variety of other opaque fields in which standard setters aim to achieve certain goals (including education, financial stability, health care, traffic security, and public service).
My recently published paper "Means versus ends in opaque institutional fields: trading off compliance and achievement in sustainability standard adoption" stresses, inter alia, that standard creators perceive a clear need to design sustainability standards in such a way that their adopters fully understand and live up to the underlying principles and rules of such standards.
Edward Avedisian (b. 1936), in his painting as well as his gouache on paper, makes use of strategically placed concentric circles placed in a larger field of opaque color.
In a finite pressure plasma with an opaque region near the field-line top, it has a minimum at the equator and two maxima in both hemispheres, a total of three extremes (Fig. 10).
The open-field arena was an opaque Plexiglass box (39 × 39 × 39 cm) with a dark gray floor, illuminated at 43 ± 4 lux in a 10 × 15 ft room.
But to the uninitiated, what transpired on the field was as opaque as a livestock auction.
By approaching the Armenian deportation indirectly, through Conn's dreams and opaque memories, Mustian broadens his field of vision, and ours.
Metals have a "negative" response to the electric field, making them opaque.
The vast majority of non-Newtonian fluids are naturally opaque; therefore, visualizing the flow field of such fluids inside a reactor is a challenging task.
But the field is still opaque to the many considering it, and Hamadeh saw white space for an entrepreneurial opportunity.
