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Walking and Talking Corporate Social Responsibility:Implications of Firm Size and Organizational Cost [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper we address two interrelated research gaps in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) literature. The first results from a lack of understanding of different patterns of CSR engagement with respect to CSR talk (impression management and ...
Scherer, Andreas Georg +2 more
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Default Effect in ESG Investment: When a Recommendation Goes a Long Way
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Individual investors display a positive attitude toward ESG investments but typically fail to act upon it. We report results from a preregistered online experiment testing a default option on 1050 US investors examining the mechanisms driving the effectiveness of default options in promoting ESG investments.
Sai Sravanthi Ramadugula +2 more
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Pilot policies for climate-adaptive urban development and corporate greenwashing behavior
International Review of Economics & FinanceAgainst the backdrop of a worldwide consensus on green development and rising expectations for corporate accountability, greenwashing—an implicit, strategic form of adaptation—undermines institutional trust in environmental governance and hampers the ...
Yan Zhu +3 more
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Legitimacy Strategies in Corporate Environmental Reporting:A Longitudinal Analysis of German DAX Companies’ Disclosed Objectives [PDF]
, 2019 Ecological objectives in environmental reports usually promise a high degree of environmental responsibilities in a company’s activities. Several studies have already highlighted that most companies do not keep their promises since stakeholders ...
Borgstedt, P. +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the role of corporate zero‐deforestation commitments (ZDCs) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) enabling technologies in mitigating deforestation. Drawing on data from 110 companies included in the Forest 500 dataset, the research explores whether sustainability commitments and digital innovation influence firms' deforestation ...
Valentina Beretta +2 more
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Media attention, female directors and corporate greenwashing: evidence from China
Journal of Applied EconomicsThis study investigates how female directors and media attention affect corporate greenwashing, using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2013 to 2023.
Dan Ma, Longsheng Wu
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Effects of Corporate Greenwashing on Society
Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and HumanitiesThe deceptive promotion of goods, practices, or activities as ecologically friendly—a practice known as corporate greenwashing—has a significant impact on society. This abstract explores the many effects of greenwashing, including how it affects consumer behaviour, trust, resource allocation, environmental progress, and competition.
S Jegadeeswari, N Lakshmi Priya
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Green Ambiguity Shapes Sustainable Investing
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Green Exchange‐Traded Funds (ETFs) have experienced strong growth in recent years, reflecting increasing investor attention toward sustainability. However, these funds rely on a wide range of environmental metrics that are often weakly aligned, raising concerns about the meaning of greenness in sustainable investing.
Rita Laura D'Ecclesia +2 more
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Does ESG report greenwashing increase stock price crash risk?
China Journal of Accounting StudiesFrom the perspective of non-financial information greenwashing, this paper investigates the impact mechanism of environmental, social and governance (ESG) report greenwashing on stock price crash risk.
Guangrui Liu +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of firms' propensity to adopt green buildings in the Euro Stoxx 300 and the S&P 500 indices, during 2012–2023. Using random forest binary classifiers, we assess the relative importance of financial, sectoral, geographic, and climate governance predictors and uncover nonlinear relationships often overlooked ...
María del Carmen Valls Martínez +3 more
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