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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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Del palo a la zanahoria: sistemas de gestión ambiental, certificaciones ambientales y etiquetas ecológicas. La norma ISO 14001
TL;DR: In this article , a series of analysis are carried out on those instruments conceived to promote environmental quality based on the implantation of non-mandatory Environmental Management Systems (EMS) that lead to environmental certifications for organizations or ecolabels for their products and services.
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Greening the greenwashers – How to push greenwashers towards more sustainable trajectories
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors overview the literature and use conceptual reasoning to develop four mechanisms by which greenwashers may be pushed toward more environmentally friendly trajectories that would not otherwise have been considered: (1) greenwashing raises awareness and normalizes greenness; (2) a greenwashing faux pas is instrumentalized to hold companies accountable by triggering an irreversible “ratchet effect” (enforcing consistency between discourse and actions without allowing a step backward); and (3) green washing as an aspirational green talk that can constitute an important resource to inspire and drive change.
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Social Media as a Tool to create Environmental Awareness in Transparent, Sustainable Supply Chains
TL;DR: In this article, the effectiveness of social media in communicating transparent, sustainable supply chains is evaluated. But it is unclear whether these actions are truly sustainable or whether it is a form of greenwashing.
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Planning for Climate Transformations
Linda Shi,Joan Fitzgerald +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors review definitions of transformation, introduce each of the six articles and their approaches to transformation, and explore cross-cutting tensions among them, and conclude with reflections for future research that would help planning prepare for and contribute to climate transformations.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Illusion and well-being: a social psychological perspective on mental health
TL;DR: Research suggesting that certain illusions may be adaptive for mental health and well-being is reviewed, examining evidence that a set of interrelated positive illusions—namely, unrealistically positive self-evaluations, exaggerated perceptions of control or mastery, and unrealistic optimism—can serve a wide variety of cognitive, affective, and social functions.
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Exploring internal stickiness: Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm
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Structural Inertia and Organizational Change
Michael T. Hannan,John Freeman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider structural inertia in organizational populations as an outcome of an ecological-evolutionary process and define structural inertia as a correspondence between a class of organizations and their environments.
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The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits.
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