Considering the interactive aspect of discursive institutional analysis,
it is striking how persistent the Conservation and Forestry frames have
remained throughout the numerous – allegedly collaborative – policy
and planning processes both prior to the Dialogue process, and after it.
The coordinative discourse among the policy actors, as Schmidt (2008,
2010) calls it, has lead to compromises and agreements, but not to any
significant re-framing, or changes in the content of the discourses.
While the ENGOs managed to convince the German publishing houses
of their frame and thereby gained access to the Dialogue process, no
major shift seems to have taken place in the frames of either the ENGOs or Metsähallitus. This supports Schön and Rein's (1994) argument
that changes in practices can happen without deeper reflection,
as reactions to external pressure.