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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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Impact of environmental policy on firm's market performance: The case of ISO 14001
Hammad Riaz,Abubakr Saeed +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared ISO 14001 certified firms with their non-certified counterpart based on different matching criteria that include size, return on asset, and industry, and found that the results indicate that the ISO14001 is negatively evaluated by the investors in both the short and long run.
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How does greenwashing influence managers' decision-making? An experimental approach under stakeholder view
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically examined how greenwashing could influence managers' decision-making and whether a moderation effect of attitude toward environmental management exists in this relationship, relying on experimental design.
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How Green Trust, Consumer Brand Engagement and Green Word-Of-Mouth mediate Purchasing Intentions
João Guerreiro,Mariana Pacheco +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how greenwashing expectations of customers affect their green buying decisions by studying how green trust, consumer brand engagement and green word-of-mouth mediate this relationship.
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When consumers learn to spot deception in advertising: testing a literacy intervention to combat greenwashing
TL;DR: Greenwashing is a major advertising issue that has negative implications for consumers, the green product market, and the environment as discussed by the authors, and consumers cannot distinguish between acceptable and deceptive greenwashing.
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The effects of congruency of environmental issue and product category and green reputation on consumer responses toward green advertising
Sumin Shin,Eyun-Jung Ki +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the congruence effect of the product and claimed environmental issue on green advertising on consumer responses was examined, and the moderation effect of perceived green reputation of a product was found to be a negative influence on the conjunence effect, while low green reputation positively affected ad attitude and BI.
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