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How Sustainability Ratings Might Deter “Greenwashing”: A Closer Look at Ethical Corporate Communication. [PDF]

Of the many ethical corporate marketing practices, many firms use corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication to enhance their corporate image.
Benoît-Moreau, Florence, Parguel, Béatrice, Larceneux, Fabrice   +2 more
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The Buffering Effect of Consumers’ CSR-CA Beliefs on Corporate Greenwashing [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
In recent years, against the backdrop of a continuously expanding green consumer market and frequent instances of greenwashing by companies, consumer reactions to greenwashing have shown marked divergence; some companies have managed to achieve sales ...
Li Yudong
doaj   +1 more source

Elaborating the Motivations and Attitudes Driving Interest in Voluntary Biodiversity Credits

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global biodiversity loss has prompted the search for new sources of conservation finance, such as voluntary biodiversity credits (VBCs). However, despite optimistic market projections, current uptake of VBCs is limited. Adopting an interpretive approach, we analyse 21 semistructured interviews with early market actors (buyers, sellers ...
Gamze Yakar‐Pritchard, Andrew Greenman, Stacia Stetkiewicz, Bouwe Dijkstra, Frances Bowen, Richard Field   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

CEO’s childhood poverty experience and corporate greenwashing: Evidence from China

South African Journal of Business Management
Purpose: This study aims to elucidate the effect of chief executive officers’ (CEO) early-life poverty experiences on corporate greenwashing and the underlying channel mechanisms and seeks to explore the moderating effects of various factors.
Rong Xu, Bei Lyu
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Grey zone in – greenwash out. A review of greenwashing research and implications for the voluntary-mandatory transition of CSR

International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility, 2019
As public concern over greenwashing has grown in the last two decades, academic research has increased correspondingly, and there is now a substantial body of research addressing issues related to greenwashing.
Lucia Gatti, Peter Seele, Lars Rademacher   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Use of Renewable Energy in Prominent City Buildings: A Diffusion Study on Top European Football Organizations

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study applied the diffusion of innovation theory to investigate the rate of diffusion of renewable energy sources used by Europe's top professional football stadiums and the relationship with carbon neutrality. A discrete diffusion model estimated the diffusion of renewable energy to saturation, and a multivariate logistic ...
Chad S. Seifried, Liz Wanless, Timothy Kellison   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How the financial-industrial integration affects the “greenwashing” of heterogeneous property rights enterprises

International Review of Economics & Finance
Curbing corporate “greenwashing” is an essential part of promoting sustainable development. In recent years, the financial-industrial integration has increasingly become an important component of corporate strategic planning.
Yue Zhang, Pengliang Zhang, Yifan Dong, Xuyang Wang, Qingbin Meng   +4 more
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The Influence of Corporate Sustainability Rating Methodology on Disclosure Behavior

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rise of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing has illuminated long‐standing concerns over the ability for sustainability rating schemes to accurately convey sustainability‐related performance of firms. This study theorizes and empirically examines how a detailed and transparent rating methodology influences what information
Patrick J. Callery
wiley   +1 more source

What drives corporate greenwashing? A machine learning lens on pressure and opportunity in China’s A-share listed firms

China Accounting and Finance Review
This study aims to systematically identify the drivers of corporate greenwashing through the institution, market, organization and cognition (IMOC) framework. Grounded in institutional theory, resource-based view, agency theory and upper echelons theory,
Yao Xiao, Miao Yu, Mingji Liu, Kaijie Jiang   +3 more
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Chain‐Level Business Model Patterns for the Green Logistics Transition

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability transitions in freight transport increasingly depend on coordinated changes across entire logistics networks, not just within individual firms. This study investigates how business‐model change unfolds across a multimodal European logistics chain engaged in reducing transport‐related emissions.
Marikka Heikkilä
wiley   +1 more source