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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, R. Prasantha Kumar, Luc Meunier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zero Deforestation Commitments and Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies: An Analysis of Their Role in Mitigating Deforestation

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, Eugenia Parodi, Celine Buschmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The implications of ESG greenwashing and ESG uncertainty on stock returns

THE IMPLICATIONS OF ESG GREENWASHING AND ESG UNCERTAINTY ON STOCK RETURNS The implications of ESG greenwashing and ESG uncertainty on stock returns ...
Haimerl, Karl, Weinmayer, Karl, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

ESG Greenwashing and Applications of AI for Measurement [PDF]

“ESG greenwashing” refers to the strategic communication tactics firms use to selectively disclose their ESG conduct to stakeholders. ESG greenwashing strategy, while it may attract and satisfy stakeholders at the beginning, may cause different issues ...
Bowden, James, Cummins, Mark, Dao, Daniel, Chu, Ngoc Anh   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

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, Giacomo Morelli, Kevyn Stefanelli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How do enterprises deal with environmental protection “fee-to-tax” reform? Evidence from ESG information greenwashing in China

International Review of Economics & Finance
This study uses the implementation of the Environmental Protection Tax Law in China as a quasi-natural experiment. Using data from Chinese A-share listed companies between 2013 and 2022, it investigates the effect of the environmental protection “fee-to ...
Feng Niu, Zhichao Luo, Yanfen Mu
doaj   +1 more source

Do Governance Structures Drive Green Building Adoption? A Machine Learning Approach With Random Forests

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, José Manuel Santos‐Jaén, María Estefanía Sánchez Pacheco, Fernando José Zambrano Farías   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Executive green cognition, risk preference, and ESG greenwashing

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Executives with high levels of green cognition play key roles in enterprises in terms of choosing green development and fundamentally guaranteeing the sustainable development of China’s real economy.
Guangrui Liu, Yujie Lin, Huafeng Wang, Zhuoran Liu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Sustainability Orientation and Sustainability Challenges in SME Responses to Institutional Support

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT SMEs receive increasing institutional support to embed sustainability, yet they vary widely in their ability to translate such support into practice. This study addresses this gap by examining the internal cognitive and strategic mechanism (sustainability orientation) through which managers interpret institutional support and the contextual ...
Michael Zisuh Ngoasong, Aqueel Imtiaz Wahga, Sam Zisuh Njinyah, Yen‐Jung Tseng   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Greenwashing strategy in ESG disclosure: The mediating role of information quality in creating shared value [PDF]

Problems and Perspectives in Management
Type of the article: Research Article AbstractThis study investigates the impact of greenwashing in ESG disclosure on firms’ ability to create shared value (CSV) by focusing on the mediating roles of disclosure quality and information asymmetry across ...
Erwin Saraswati, Zarina Zakaria, Sari Atmini, Arum Prastiwi, Jeya Santhini, Roshni Ann George, Achmad Iqbal   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source