Magali A. Delmas

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors leveraged institutional theory by proposing that stakeholders, including governments, regulators, customers, competitors, community and environmental interest groups, and industry associations, impose coercive and normative pressures on firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the external (both institutional and market), organizational and individual drivers of greenwashing and offer recommendations for managers, policymakers, and NGOs to decrease its prevalence.

TL;DR: The authors examines the external (both institutional and market), organizational, and individual drivers of greenwashing and offers recommendations for managers, policymakers, and NGOs to decrease its prevalence, and suggests that greenwashing can have profound negative effects on consumer and investor confidence in green products.

TL;DR: It is argued that external constituents—including customers, regulators, legislators, local communities, and environmental activist organizations—who interact with influential corporate departments are more likely to affect facility managers' decisions and thus adopt different management practices.

TL;DR: The authors argue that external constituents, including customers, regulators, legislators, local communities, and environmental activist organizations, who interact with influential corporate departments are more likely to affect facility managers' decisions and that managers of facilities that are subjected to comparable institutional pressures adopt distinct sets of management practices that appease different external constituents.