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A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
wiley   +1 more source

ESG Controversies in Global Firms: A Black Mark?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite increasing attention paid by companies to sustainability, there is still evidence of environmental, social and governance (commonly referred to as ESG) scandals. As research on this topic is scant, this paper aims to analyse the impact of ESG controversies on firms' sustainability practices, that is, ESG policies, as well as ...
Beatrice Bais, Guido Orzes, Marco Sartor
wiley   +1 more source

Costly Signals and Cheap Talk: Measuring the Decoupling of ESG Routinisation and Greenwashing Risk

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Greenwashing is a systemic challenge to sustainable finance, yet prevailing ESG metrics still tend to equate more disclosure with more sustainability. We develop a dual‐index framework to compare firms' ESG ‘talk’ and ‘walk’ using hard data. An ESG Routinisation Index approximates the costly integration of sustainability into emissions, safety
Giacomo Zatini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonverbal cues to deception: insights from a mock crime scenario in a Chinese sample

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Nonverbal behaviors could play a crucial role in detecting deception, yet existing studies on deception cues have largely centered on Western populations, predominantly university students, thus neglecting the influence of cultural and sample diversity ...
He Li, Hu Song, Menghan Li, Hanxue Li
doaj   +1 more source

A Business Strategy or Compliance? Review of the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Landscape

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have gained significant prominence within the corporate landscape, becoming essential to the sustainability and success of modern business models. Companies are increasingly required to integrate sustainable and responsible practices into their daily operations to meet stakeholder expectations
Roberto Cerchione, Viviana Sicardi
wiley   +1 more source

A Green Consumer‐Based Approach to Advance Branding Strategies in Experiential Consumption Contexts. Insight From the Cruise Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing environmental awareness has intensified demand for sustainability and transparency, especially in cruise tourism, a high‐impact and highly scrutinised service context. This study examines how green consumption values (GCV) shape passengers' perceptions of the credibility of green marketing claims (believability) and, in turn, influence
Marcello Risitano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Environmental Innovation and Environmental Decoupling: International Evidence

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether environmental innovation reduces environmental decoupling, defined as the mismatch between a company's environmental disclosures and its actual environmental performance. Drawing on legitimacy theory, we argue that environmental innovation represents a substantive organizational response that reduces companies ...
Rasmi Meqbel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Against the Deflationary Account of Self-Deception

open access: yesHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2012
Self-deception poses serious difficulties for belief attribution because the behavior of the self-deceived is deeply conflicted: some of it supports the attribution of a certain belief, while some of it supports the contrary attribution.
José Eduardo Porcher
doaj  

Critical Success Factors and Stakeholder Influence for Environmental, Social and Governance Assessment and Reporting

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) assessment criteria have drawn substantial attention by investors in recent years. ESG factors have been considered by investors to create greater wealth and better investment decisions and opportunities. However, there are ambiguities about ESG assessment and reporting with issues of transparency and
Caleb Boadi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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