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Greenwash: Corporate Environmental Disclosure under Threat of Audit
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We develop an economic model of “greenwash,” in which a firm strategically discloses environmental information and an activist may audit and penalize the firm for disclosing positive but not negative aspects of its environmental profile. We fully characterize the model's equilibria, and derive a variety of predictions about disclosure behavior. We rationalize conflicting results in the empirical literature, finding a nonmonotonic relationship between a firm's expected environmental performance and its environmental disclosures. Greater activist pressure deters greenwash, but induces some firms to disclose less about their environmental performance. Environmental management systems discourage firms with poor expected environmental performance from greenwashing, which may justify public policies encouraging firms to adopt them.
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“activists react more negatively to organizations that lay claim to being virtuous than to organizations that never make such claims”
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“The media and environmental activists have also increased their efforts to hold corporations accountable to their claims and have thus become vigilant observers, watching for evidence of environmental hypocrisy, often labeled as ''greenwashing''”
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“From the consumers' perspective, it is worrisome that various environmental aspects of products, namely, sustainability, are not verifiable even when consuming products that falsely claim it [8,9].”
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“Some companies mask negative information about their impact or only partially disclose this information (Lyon & Maxwell, 2011;Marquis et al., 2016), while others intentionally mislead using false advertisements claiming that they are environmentally responsible when, in fact, they are not (Martínez et al., 2020;Szabo & Webster, 2021).”
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- Authors
- Lyon, T. P., & Maxwell, J. W.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2011-02-24
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-41
- ISSN
- 1058-6407 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3125595071
- Cited by
- 1,569
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 125.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Accounting › Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
- Keywords
- greenwashing, corporate environmental disclosure, activist investors, corporate auditing, disclosure incentives, environmental performance, environmental management systems, strategic disclosure
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