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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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Corporate Sustainability Communication as ‘Fake News’: Firms’ Greenwashing on Twitter
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between greenwashing and financial market performance for the firms in their sample and proposed a new method for automatically identifying greenwashing, using linguistic cues in a sample of tweets from a diverse set of firms in two highly polluting industries.
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Green Marketing and Entrepreneurship
TL;DR: In this article , the authors present the concept of green marketing, its importance, presence in current markets, the advantages and challenges of its application, and highlight the approach taken by this work when relating and highlighting the importance and influence of Green marketing in entrepreneurship and small companies over large companies.
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How does greenwashing affect the sustainability reporting of firms in the automotive industry to attain better sustainability performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the sustainability reporting and the key drivers for making use of greenwashing in the automotive industry and conclude that there are still risks for greenwashing as some drivers are still there, but the wake-up call of the consequences of the Volkswagen scandal was so strong that greenwashing is now seen as not done with a way to high risks for huge financial and reputational damage.
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From the Sins of Greenwashing to the Virtues of Green Marketing
TL;DR: In this paper , a detailed model for the analysis of rhetorical virtues, specifically tailored for judging the ethical qualities of green marketing, is presented, which is viewed as a specific form of environmental communication, subject to rhetoric's domain.
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Environmental impacts of green bonds in cross-countries analysis: a moderating effect of institutional quality
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the impacts of green bond issuance on the environment while taking into account the moderating role of issuing countries' institutional quality, and provided a macro-level evaluation of the environmental impact of green bonds, hence enabling policy implications to be drawn for countries to achieve their SDGs.
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