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The Drivers of Greenwashing
Magali A. Delmas,Vanessa Burbano +1 more
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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.Abstract:
More and more firms are engaging in greenwashing, misleading consumers about their environmental performance or the environmental benefits of a product or service. The skyrocketing incidence of greenwashing can have profound negative effects on consumer and investor confidence in green products. Mitigating greenwashing is particularly challenging in a context of limited and uncertain regulation. This article 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.read more
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Greenwashing and environmental communication: Effects on stakeholders' perceptions
TL;DR: In this paper, a four-for-two design experiment was conducted to evaluate the influence of various types of misleading communications about environmental issues on stakeholders' perceptions of corporate environmental responsibility and greenwashing.
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Isolated Environmental Cues and Product Efficacy Penalties: The Color Green and Eco-labels
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how cues traditionally used to signal environmental friendliness, specifically the color green and eco-labels, and influence product efficacy perceptions and subsequent purchase intentions.
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Substantive or Symbolic Environmental Strategies? Effects of External and Internal Normative Stakeholder Pressures
David G. Hyatt,Nicholas Berente +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors distinguish between internal and external normative stakeholder pressures to test their potentially unique effects on environmental strategies, and find that internal, normative stakeholders primarily drive substantive commitments to environmental practices, reflecting an internalized, voluntary commitment to the natural environment and dedication to environmental leadership.
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Eco-Premium or Eco-Penalty? Eco-Labels and Quality in the Organic Wine Market
Magali A. Delmas,Neil Lessem +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how the environmental signal of eco-labels interacts with product characteristics such as brand, quality and price, and find that respondents preferred both eco-labeled wines over otherwise identical conventional counterparts, when the price was lower and the wine was from a lower quality region.
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Sustainable Certification for Future Generations: The Case of Family Business
Magali A. Delmas,Olivier Gergaud +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated how family ties to future generations via the intention of transgenerational succession can be associated with the adoption of sustainable practices and found that ties to the future generations, measured as the intention for a winery owner to pass down the winery to their children, are associated with sustainable certification.
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