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

open access: yesJournal 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

ESG Performance, Debt Financing, and R&D Output: Evidence From the Healthcare Sector

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing calls for sustainability in the healthcare sector, this study examines how and under what conditions environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance influences research and development (R&D) output. Although existing studies suggest that ESG performance enhances R&D output, the financial mechanisms that enable or constrain
Sarmad Ali   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Gender-Moderated Effects of Greenwashing: A Multiple Group Analysis of Mediation and Moderation Relationships [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences
With the rising consumer awareness of environmental issues, companies increasingly face scrutiny over claims of sustainability, giving rise to concerns about greenwashing and its impact on consumer behavior.
Rahmawati   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yes
Of the many ethical corporate marketing practices, many firms use corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication to enhance their corporate image.
Béatrice Parguel   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Erfolgreich und verantwortungsvoll [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Unternehmensaktivitäten im Nachhaltigkeitsbereich sind oft dem Vorwurf des Greenwashing ausgesetzt. Ein neues Lehrbuch stellt die wichtigen Elemente eines ernsthaften und nutzbringenden Corporate Responsibility (CR) Management ...
Brand, Fridolin S.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Navigating the ESG Paradox: Strategic Pathways Between Innovation and Washing Under Stakeholder Scrutiny

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As firms increasingly incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into their strategic agendas, stakeholder legitimacy—an audience‐conferred judgment of organizational appropriateness—has become pivotal. We theorize legitimacy as expanding a hybrid response portfolio in which firms may pursue substantive change (business ...
Min‐Jae Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grey zone in – greenwash out. A review of greenwashing research and implications for the voluntary-mandatory transition of CSR

open access: yesInternational 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Venture Funding: Signals of Environmental Orientation and Their Interplay With Investor‐ and Country‐Level Characteristics

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmentally oriented ventures pursue a dual mission: to create both environmental and financial value. This dual mission adds complexity and can influence ventures' funding prospects, as investors mostly pursue financial motivations.
David Flore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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