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Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic
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We examine why organizations that obtain prominent certifications may at times elect not to publicize them. Drawing on the impression management literature, we argue and show that concerns about being perceived as hypocritical may cause organizations to strategically withhold their certification status. Using a longitudinal panel of corporations that were members of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, a prominent environmental certification, we show that in the face of reputational threats, organizations are less likely to publicize their certification status when the threat appears to directly contradict the claims implied by the certification. Our findings suggest that the threat of hypocrisy is amplified for firms with stronger reputations in the same domain as the certification and when audience members better understand and value the certification. Our findings delineate new boundary conditions under which firms will make prosocial claims and inspire reconsideration of long-held assumptions about the process of decoupling the implementation and communication of socially valued practices. This study also provides insights for scholars of nonmarket strategy on how corporations strategically communicate with external constituents about their sustainability initiatives.
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“audiences must perceive a direct contradiction between claims and actions to recognize hypocrisy”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Direct contradiction between threat and claims.
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Effron and Monin, 2010 source
- Disputedcites Effron, Lucas, and O'Connor, 2015 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Theoretical and applied implications section says that explicitly endorsing or promoting a value is not necessary for someone to be condemned as a hypocrite. The General discussion likewise says a person's actions need only be inconsistent with what their organization preaches, contrary to the claim that a direct contradiction between the person's own claims and actions is required. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“we show that in the face of reputational threats, organizations are less likely to publicize their certification status when the threat appears to directly contradict the claims implied by the certification.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Abstract
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“we observed several instances in which firms chose to withhold rather than publicize their membership status.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Abstract
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“we found several companies that appeared to remain silent about their DJSI membership, particularly when the risk of perceived hypocrisy was increased”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > METHOD
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“the negative moderating effects of environmental reputation were significantly stronger in magnitude for environmental shareholder activism (χ 2 = 2.58, p-value = .054)”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Second-stage Prediction Models
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“stakeholder activism (z-score = -2.22,p-value = .026)on subsequent DJSI publication”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Second-stage Prediction Models
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“we find that the degree of DJSI legitimacy negatively moderates the effect of shareholder activism”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Second-stage Prediction Models
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“a strong environmental reputation negatively moderates the effect of shareholder activism (z-score = -2.09,p-value = .036)”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Second-stage Prediction Models
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“Following this lawsuit, AMD did not publicize its membership for two years but resumed publication again in 2008”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > METHOD
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“the probability of publicizing DJSI membership decreases by 12.5 percentage points (p-value = .039)when a firm becomes the target of an environmental shareholder resolution”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Second-stage Prediction Models
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“newly added firms experience positive abnormal returns upon inclusion, indicating that investors generally view inclusion as a positive signal (Cheung, 2011;Robinson, Kleffner, and Bertels, 2011;Hawn, Chatterji, and Mitchell, 2014)”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > METHOD
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Cheung, 2011 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Robinson, Kleffner, and Bertels, 2011 source
- Disputedcites Hawn, Chatterji, and Mitchell, 2014 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The event-study results (Table 2a, p. 17) report a statistically significant −0.25% abnormal return for firms added to the DJSI, not a positive return. The Empirical findings (p. 27) likewise say investors appear to punish added firms. Although returns became less negative over time, the later positive return for additions was not statistically significant (Table 2c, p. 19). (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Perceptions of hypocrisy arise when actors make claims to which their own behavior does not conform”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > The Risks of Perceived Hypocrisy
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- Supportedcites Effron, Lucas, and O'Connor, 2015 source
Section 1.1, “Judgments of hypocrisy” (page not provided), defines hypocrisy as claiming standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform. The paper also discusses hypocrisy by association, but that broader finding does not undermine the cited statement. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Such selection could nevertheless bias our results if factors that predict the likelihood of becoming certified also influence the likelihood of publicizing the certification (Hamilton and Nickerson, 2003;Bascle, 2008).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Model Specification
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Hamilton and Nickerson, 2003 source
The Introduction (p. 2) explains that omitted variables affecting both a choice and an outcome can bias estimates. The cited paper discusses strategy choice and performance, not certification specifically; the citing sentence applies that general self-selection principle to certification and publicity. (LLM, conf=0.89)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Bascle, 2008 source
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“prior research has found company size to be positively correlated with the likelihood of environmental disclosure (Reid and Toffel, 2009;Lewis, Walls, and Dowell, 2014) and, more generally, the number of prosocial claims made by a firm (McDonnell and King, 2013)”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Control Variables
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Reid and Toffel, 2009 source
Reid and Toffel are cited for the environmental-disclosure part of the sentence; the separate claim about prosocial claims is attributed to McDonnell and King. In the Public disclosure table (p. 45), both log net sales and log employment have positive, statistically significant associations with whether a company responded publicly to the Carbon Disclosure Project. (LLM, conf=0.93)
- Supportedcites Lewis, Walls, and Dowell, 2014 source
The Results section reports that larger firms were more likely to comply with CDP requests for environmental disclosure. Lewis et al. is cited for that part of the sentence; the separate claim about the number of prosocial claims is attributed to McDonnell and King, not Lewis et al. (LLM, conf=0.91)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites McDonnell and King, 2013 source
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“organizations whose operations pose a greater risk to the environment are more likely to be heavily regulated and scrutinized by the state (Bansal and Roth, 2000;Reid and Toffel, 2009;Chatterji and Toffel, 2010) and will thus establish sophisticated reporting structures and processes aimed at increasing the transparency of their operations and impacts (Lyon and Maxwell, 2011).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Control Variables
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Bansal and Roth, 2000 source
- Partly supportedcites Reid and Toffel, 2009 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The 'Extension: Environmentally sensitive industries' section (p. 26) describes firms in those industries as facing a heightened threat of regulatory scrutiny. That supports the scrutiny portion of the clause attributed to Reid and Toffel, but a threat of scrutiny does not establish that these firms are more likely to be heavily regulated. The later claim about reporting structures is attached to a different citation. (LLM, conf=0.83)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Chatterji and Toffel, 2010 source
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“To avoid concerns about simultaneity or reverse causality, we lagged all independent and moderating variables by one year (Reid and Toffel, 2009;Lewis, Walls, and Dowell, 2014).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Model Specification
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Reid and Toffel, 2009 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Model specification (p. 21) says the authors lagged independent variables to avoid simultaneity concerns, but expressly identifies two exceptions to the one-year lag: shareholder action and toxic chemical emissions. It does not separately say that this procedure eliminates reverse-causality concerns or specify that all moderating variables were lagged one year. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Partly supportedcites Lewis, Walls, and Dowell, 2014 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Model specification section says the authors lagged control variables by one year to minimize simultaneity concerns. It also says CEO education and tenure were measured in the current year, so the paper does not support lagging all independent variables; it does not claim that lagging eliminates simultaneity or reverse-causality concerns. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Shareholder resolutions are proposals often put forth by socially minded investors who seek to influence corporate decision makers by generating internal debates about a firm's policies and practices (Reid and Toffel, 2009).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Independent Variables
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Reid and Toffel, 2009 source
The Private politics section (p. 8) describes shareholder resolutions as proposals used to influence corporate decision-making. The Shareholder resolutions and organizational change section (pp. 8–10) says activist resolutions challenge firms’ practices and prompt managers and boards to reconsider them, supporting the paraphrase about generating internal debate. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Our findings suggest that the threat of hypocrisy is amplified for firms with stronger reputations in the same domain as the certification and when audience members better understand and value the certification.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Abstract
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“the average publication rate over the panel was 59 percent (883/ 1,486)”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Dependent Variable
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“Our results strongly support the notion that the legitimacy of the DJSI increased over time.In 1999, the year the DJSI was introduced, we found only 20 articles that mentioned it.By the end of our study, the cumulative number of articles mentioning the DJSI exceeded 13,000.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Organizational reputation.
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“Across all specifications we find a negative and statistically significant coefficient for the inverse Mills ratio”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Second-stage Prediction Models
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“We also find a strong positive main effect for the number of years on the DJSI but also a strong negative effect on the squared term.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Second-stage Prediction Models
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“Such claims, however, are less likely to occur when the claim (e.g., publicizing a sustainability certification) falls in the same domain as the threat (e.g., environmental sustainability) and when the inconsistency between the claim and the threat is readily apparent to and understood by stakeholders.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Prosocial Claims as an Impression Management Strategy
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“and 2.5 percentage points (p-value = .078)for every media article that mentions an environmental protest, boycott, or lawsuit.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Second-stage Prediction Models
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“These authoritative endorsements serve as signals of quality and provide assurance that an organization has substantively implemented practices or engaged in activities that meet the requirements outlined by the certifying agency.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Abstract
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plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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“When a certification is new and not yet understood by audience members, an organization might believe that it could get away with making claims by touting the certification without being detected as a hypocrite.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Organizational reputation.
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“Prior research has shown that actors who make claims that are inconsistent with their actions are often perceived to lack credibility (Tedeschi, Schlenker, and Bonoma, 1971), which may lead audience members to view all other communications from them with skepticism (Rosenfeld, Giacalone, and Riordan, 1995).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > The Risks of Perceived Hypocrisy
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Tedeschi, Schlenker, and Bonoma, 1971 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Rosenfeld, Giacalone, and Riordan, 1995
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“By revealing information about organizational attributes that would otherwise be hidden from external audiences (King, Lenox, and Terlaak, 2005), certifications provide assurance that the organization is trustworthy and that its actions are aligned with socially prescribed values and actions (McDonnell and King, 2013).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > PUBLICIZING A CERTIFICATION AS AN IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT TACTIC
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“the reputation-enhancing benefits of certifications are derived from two primary factors: certifications provide assurance about an organization's level of performance in a given domain, and they represent a powerful signal of endorsement by other prominent and respected actors”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > PUBLICIZING A CERTIFICATION AS AN IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT TACTIC
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“Organizations engage in various forms of impression management to promote positive audience perceptions.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > PUBLICIZING A CERTIFICATION AS AN IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT TACTIC
What the sources say
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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“Inconsistency between an organization's claims and actions is a necessary condition for perceptions of hypocrisy to arise, but it is not likely to be sufficient.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > When Will Organizations Be Strategically Silent?
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“the DJSI was the first global index to identify and track the performance of sustainability-driven companies worldwide and is well regarded among the socially responsible investment community for its credibility and transparency”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Abstract
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- Not matchedcites Sadowski, 2010b
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“To defend their reputations, organizations will engage in impression management efforts to neutralize threats through rhetorical or symbolic actions that emphasize their positive attributes and socially valued activities”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > PUBLICIZING A CERTIFICATION AS AN IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT TACTIC
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Elsbach, 2003 source
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In the paper
“Given these potentially damaging consequences, organizations should want to avoid the reputational harm associated with being perceived as hypocritical.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > The Risks of Perceived Hypocrisy
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- The authors state this as an assumption: Negative media coverage and activism threaten organizations by generating negative public perceptions and increasing investor risk perception.
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“Organizations that have established strong generalized reputations are generally more visible than their peers and are disproportionately celebrated by the public”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Organizational reputation.
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In the paper
“consumers and other audience members may detect such organizational acts of hypocrisy and view them with ire”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > The Risks of Perceived Hypocrisy
What the sources say
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Reputational threats can occur when stakeholders recognize organizational misdeeds and bring those actions to light in an effort to pressure the organization to rectify its actions or take responsibility for its transgressions”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > PUBLICIZING A CERTIFICATION AS AN IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT TACTIC
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plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“We also reported standard errors clustered by firm to accommodate potential serial correlation within firms (Marquis, Toffel, and Zhou, 2016).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Model Specification
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Marquis, Toffel, and Zhou, 2016 source
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“hypocrisy avoidance is more likely to occur when the threat facing an organization is in the same domain as the claims associated with the certification”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Independent Variables
hedgedcorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
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In the paper
“The broad use of the DJSI evaluations suggests that its influence extends beyond investors.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > METHOD
hedgedcorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
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In the paper
“As the legitimacy of a certification increases, however, audience members would likely become more cognizant of the specific claims implied by the certification and be more capable of spotting contradictions in organizational behavior.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Organizational reputation.
hedgeddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.
In the paper
“companies often express initial and continued inclusion on the index as a strategic goal, and for some CEOs it is a key performance indicator (Robinson, Kleffner, and Bertels, 2011)”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > METHOD
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Robinson, Kleffner, and Bertels, 2011 source
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Recent work has argued that positive organizational claims may be effectively used to deflect criticism or to direct attention away from a reputational threat”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Direct contradiction between threat and claims.
What the sources say
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
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In the paper
“inclusion on the index can increase perceptions of legitimacy among socially conscious investors and enhance their brands or reputations more generally, all factors that can help to maintain or improve the firm's competitive position among its industry peers (Searcy and Elkhawas, 2012)”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > METHOD
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Searcy and Elkhawas, 2012 source
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Such resolutions often fail to receive enough support to change corporate policies, but they nevertheless serve as a form of ''disruptive activity'' and can thus threaten a firm's reputation (Lee and Lounsbury, 2011;McDonnell, King, and Soule, 2015).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Independent Variables
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plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“they have made significant investments in environmental initiatives and green products to differentiate themselves from their competitors and to signal to the general public that they are environmentally conscious corporate citizens”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > METHOD
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Vogel, 2005
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Vasi and King, 2012 source
- Not matchedcites United Nations Global Compact, 2013
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plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Not matched
None of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“prior research suggests that organizations make positive claims to mitigate reputational threats.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Direct contradiction between threat and claims.
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“making a claim signifying leadership in environmentally sustainable activities would be more likely to be perceived as hypocritical for a firm experiencing activists' protests related to its environmental practices but could be an effective strategy for a firm trying to deflect attention away from its negative labor practices.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Direct contradiction between threat and claims.
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
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In the paper
“One recent study found the DJSI to be the most credible sustainability certification in the eyes of sustainability professionals (Sadowski, 2010b).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > METHOD
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Sadowski, 2010b
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Not matched
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In the paper
“publicizing a certification that falls in the same domain as the reputational threat would more likely be perceived as hypocritical because it would be directly contradicted by recent evidence of poor behavior or performance.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Direct contradiction between threat and claims.
hedgeddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
In the paper
“Because the interpretation of interaction effects when using probit regression is inherently difficult (Hoetker, 2007), we also interpret our results using average marginal effects and graphs.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Second-stage Prediction Models
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hoetker, 2007 source
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.
None of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“to be viewed as hypocritical, it must lie in the same domain as the threat and thus represent incongruence between words and deeds.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Direct contradiction between threat and claims.
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
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Probably not a substantial claim.
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In the paper
“Perceptions of organizational hypocrisy arise when organizations make claims that directly contradict their recent actions or performance and when these contradictions are well understood and recognized by constituents.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Independent Variables
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: fails — The paper may give no reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
In the paper
“the application process is time-consuming, requiring a significant commitment to complete (Searcy and Elkhawas, 2012)”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > METHOD
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Searcy and Elkhawas, 2012 source
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim.
In the paper
“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''”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > METHOD
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lyon and Maxwell, 2011 source
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim.
In the paper
“corporate social and environmental initiatives often take a subordinate role to a firm's profitability goals (Margolis and Walsh, 2003)”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Control Variables
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Margolis and Walsh, 2003 source
plaincorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
None of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“Over the past several decades, corporations have faced increasing pressure to behave responsibly in regard to their impact on the natural environment”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > METHOD
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Hoffman, 2001
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Flammer, 2013 source
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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Probably not a substantial claim.
- Not matched
In the paper
“The DJSI is internationally recognized for its transparency and objectivity and is well regarded by the investment community (Cheung, 2011).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > METHOD
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Cheung, 2011 source
boosted- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
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Probably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.
A claim is checked only against the cited paper’s full text, never its abstract, and none is available for its sources.
In the paper
“attempts to make positive claims that are directly contradicted by recent negative events are more likely to be viewed as hypocritical (Godfrey, 2005) and when detected will likely wipe out the positive effects of prior good deeds (Effron and Monin, 2010).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Direct contradiction between threat and claims.
What the sources say
hedgeddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
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The paper states this without a source or data behind it here, so there is nothing to check it against. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“the DJSI World Index is generally seen as the most prestigious of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices because firms are essentially competing for recognition against their global peers rather than only national peers.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Control Variables
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
A claim is checked only against the cited paper’s full text, never its abstract, and none is available for its sources.
In the paper
“firms may take advantage of strategic opportunities to bolster their image, particularly when they are perceived as socially irresponsible (Brammer and Millington, 2005;Muller and Kra ¨ussl, 2011).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Control Variables
What the sources say
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
In the paper
“These procedural and structural features can serve as a proxy for a firm's general willingness and capacity to collect and report on environmental initiatives (McDonnell, King, and Soule, 2015).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Control Variables
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites McDonnell, King, and Soule, 2015 source
plaincorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
In the paper
“Each firm is assigned to one of the 59 RobecoSAM peer groups, which are based on the Global Industrial Classification Standard (GICS) (RobecoSAM, 2013).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Strategic Silence as a Nonmarket Strategy
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites RobecoSAM, 2013
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Not matched
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“arguably because a strong domain-specific reputation increases both the likelihood of being identified as a hypocrite and the associated cost of this negative social evaluation.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Prosocial Claims as an Impression Management Strategy
hedgeddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
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In the paper
“KLD rates a company's positive and negative CSR performance across several domains including community relations, diversity initiatives, employee relations, human rights initiatives, and socially controversial business practices(Vasi and King, 2012;Flammer, 2015).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Strategic Silence as a Nonmarket Strategy
What the sources say
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
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In the paper
“Implicit in this operationalization is the notion that these environmental performance ratings are positively correlated with a firm's environmental reputation, or the degree to which a firm is known for strong environmental performance and practices(Lange, Lee, and Dai, 2011;Jensen, Kim, and Kim, 2012).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Strategic Silence as a Nonmarket Strategy
What the sources say
plaincorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Our findings contribute to this conversation by suggesting that organizations are aware of and concerned with the risk of being perceived as hypocritical and are less likely to engage in hypocritical actions when the likelihood of detection increases and when these inconsistencies represent salient departures from the organization's domain-specific reputation.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Prosocial Claims as an Impression Management Strategy
hedgeddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Such concerns could cause these key organizations to remain silent about their environmental accomplishments, thus hindering the diffusion of socially desirable activities.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Strategic Silence as a Nonmarket Strategy
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Both factors would increase the likelihood of hypocritical acts being detected and thus lead firms to remain silent about their DJSI membership.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > DISCUSSION
hedgeddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
A claim is checked only against the cited paper’s full text, never its abstract, and none is available for its sources.
In the paper
“increased scrutiny by stakeholders and society at large can lead to moreaccurate (Marquis, Toffel, and Zhou, 2016), more-substantive (Marquis and Qian, 2014), or even overly modest disclosures (Kim and Lyon, 2015).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Strategic Silence as a Nonmarket Strategy
What the sources say
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“These findings thus lend strong empirical support to previous anecdotal assertions that managers are concerned about their organizations being labeled as hypocrites and will remain strategically silent about their environmentally positive activities if such communications may place the firm at risk of being targeted by activists.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Strategic Silence as a Nonmarket Strategy
boostedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“suggesting that our results are likely to be influenced by selection bias, thus providing further support for our empirical strategy.”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Second-stage Prediction Models
hedgedcorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
In the paper
“the DJSI discloses the names of sector leaders, as well as the additions and deletions resulting from the annual review process (SustainAbility, 2013).”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Control Variables
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites SustainAbility, 2013
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
- Not matched
A claim is checked only against the cited paper’s full text, never its abstract, and none is available for its sources.
In the paper
“Prior research has found that the diffusion and eventual institutionalization of socially responsible practices is largely driven by the adoption of progressive policies by prominent organizations, in particular by those that have reputations for or histories of being resistant to activists' requests”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Strategic Silence as a Nonmarket Strategy
What the sources say
boosteddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim.
In the paper
“proactive firms characterized by a progressive corporate culture (Vasi and King, 2012) often engage in socially responsible practices outside an environmental domain and may thus be less inclined to publicize their DJSI membership”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Control Variables
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Vasi and King, 2012 source
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.
The authors state this as an assumption.
Negative media coverage and activism threaten organizations by generating negative public perceptions and increasing investor risk perception.
“Underlying each of these studies is an assumption that negative media coverage and activism can threaten an organization by generating negative perceptions among the general public and increasing the level of risk perceived by investors”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Organizations seek to avoid perceptions of hypocrisy.
“Assuming that organizations will seek to avoid perceptions of hypocrisy”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Media coverage reflects the accumulated discourse and cognitive legitimacy of a given practice or structure.
“Implicit in this approach is an assumption that media coverage reflects the accumulated discourse and cognitive legitimacy of a given practice or structure (Kennedy, 2008)”
The paper relies on this without support.
Most firms likely seek to become certified with the intention of publicizing that certification to their stakeholders.
“Because most firms likely seek to become certified with the intention of publicizing that certification to their stakeholders, we used a two-stage Heckman probit model to control for selfselection.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Certifications are intended to provide verification of substantive implementation.
“Certifications, however, are unique in that they are intended to provide verification of substantive implementation.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Firms that obtain certifications must actively communicate their certification status to relevant stakeholders.
“firms that obtain certifications must nevertheless actively communicate their certification status to relevant stakeholders.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The DJSI is a prominent sustainability certification.
“We tested our theory by examining whether corporations publicized their membership in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), a prominent sustainability certification.”
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Strategic Silence as a Nonmarket Strategy
“Wald test: Coefficient on (A) ≥ (B)? (H3a)”
§ Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic > Second-stage Prediction Models
“The Wald test displays a chi-squared statistic where the null hypothesis is that coefficients for reputational threats within a nonenvironmental domain are greater than or equal to coefficients for reputational threats within an environmental domain.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Carlos, W. C., & Lewis, B. W.
- Affiliations
- Brigham Young University (US)
- Venue
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2017-02-01
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 130-169
- ISSN
- 0001-8392 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-3815
- OpenAlex
- W2588891407
- Semantic Scholar
- d0e93cfd309013e4e99b872394d3c9f29f82dac5
- Cited by
- 393
- References
- 148
- Citations by year
- 2026: 79 · 2025: 50 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 6
- FWCI
- 53.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Administrative Science Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- 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 › Strategy and Management › Corporate Identity and Reputation
- Keywords
- impression management, environmental certification, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, corporate reputation, sustainability communication, nonmarket strategy, reputational threats, corporate sustainability
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