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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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What is sustainable fashion
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Concepts and forms of greenwashing: a systematic review
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the phenomenon of greenwashing through a systematic literature review in search of its main concepts and typologies in the past 10 years, followed by the proceedings of a systematic review of the literature, based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA).
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Identifying Worldviews on Corporate Sustainability: A Content Analysis of Corporate Sustainability Reports
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Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic
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Misleading Consumers with Green Advertising? An Affect–Reason–Involvement Account of Greenwashing Effects in Environmental Advertising
TL;DR: This article examined how misleading advertising about the environmental features of products, or greenwashing, affects how consumers perceive ads and brands, drawing from the affect-reason-involvement (EIR) model.
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