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Funding Costs and Liquidity Creation: Does ESG Play Any Role?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how banks' funding costs affect liquidity creation and whether environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance shapes this relationship. Using panel data for 136 U.S. commercial banks from 2005 to 2022, we show that higher funding costs are associated with lower liquidity creation, indicating that more expensive ...
Sattam Bin Kowibeen, Ashraf Khan, M. Kabir Hassan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Greenwashing behaviours: causes, taxonomy and consequences based on a systematic literature review

Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2020
This study used the systematic review methodology to examine peer-reviewed journal articles published in the Web of Science, ScienceDirect, Springer and Emerald Insight during the 2000–2020 period to analyse greenwashing.
Zhi Yang, Thi Thu Huong Nguyen, Hoang Nam Nguyen, Thi Thuy Nga Nguyen, Thi Thanh Cao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Governance of Greenwashing Behaviors: A Perspective of Heterogeneous Firm Types

Energies
Corporate greenwashing in response to carbon neutrality strategies has received substantial academic attention. Distinct from previous studies, this paper establishes a differential game model incorporating both green and brown enterprise types.
Yi Zhang, Huiming Zhang, Kai Wu, Danyun Shen   +3 more
doaj   +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

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

Do Board Characteristics Matter with Greenwashing? An Investigation in the Financial Sector with the Integration of Entropy Weight and TOPSIS Multicriteria Decision-Making Methods

Risks
Financial industry executives are sincerely concerned about the potential effects of greenwashing on their organizations. The primary objective of this research is to investigate the impact of board features on greenwashing and the strategies that ...
Eleni Poiriazi, Georgia Zournatzidou, George Konteos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

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

Unveiling the driving mechanism of greenwashing behaviors: an agent-based modeling approach integrating new institutionalism and halo effect theories

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Governing the greenwashing behaviors of construction material enterprises under the sustainable development goals is imminent. Although government regulation and public scrutiny are regarded as crucial tools for addressing greenwashing, the specific ...
Xingwei Li, Jiekuo Hao, Zuoyi Ding, Jie Yang, Yuhong Yao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source