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Greenwashing in Corporate Environmentalism Research and Practice: The Importance of What We Say and Do
Abstract
Barely a month goes by without another high-profile firm being accused of misleading communications about environmental activities or performance. Already in 2014, Nestle has been called to account for promoting its customized recycling program for Nespresso disposable coffee pods, which has only a negligible overall waste reduction impact. Unilever has been subjected to a Twitter campaign alleging that its partnership with The Guardian newspaper to host a sustainable living online engagement platform did not accurately reflect the firm’s true environmental impacts. The frequency of similar problems, the high profile of the organizations involved, and the potentially damaging implications for the credibility of managers and researchers of organizations and natural environment motivated us to devote this collaborative editorial to the research frontiers and implications of corporate greenwashing, illustrating some of our ideas with the articles in this issue.
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Delmas, M. A., & Burbano, V. C. (2011) · California Management Review · doi:10.1525/cmr.2011.54.1.64 · Cited by 3,441 · cited 1×
“Increased environmental disclosure has also provided research questions and empirical data for scholars to analyze greenwashing behavior, its drivers, and its consequences (e.g., Delmas & Burbano, 2011; Du, 2014; Walker & Wan, 2012).”
BackgroundGreenwash: Corporate Environmental Disclosure under Threat of Audit
Lyon, T. P., & Maxwell, J. W. (2011) · Journal of Economics & Management Strategy · doi:10.1111/j.1530-9134.2010.00282.x · Cited by 1,569
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The Means and End of Greenwash
Lyon, T. P., & Montgomery, A. W. (2015) · Organization & Environment · doi:10.1177/1086026615575332 · Cited by 1,636
Dyllick, T., & Muff, K. (2016) · Organization & Environment · doi:10.1177/1086026615575176 · Cited by 975
Accounting for the Unaccountable: Biodiversity Reporting and Impression Management
Boiral, O. (2016) · Journal of Business Ethics · doi:10.1007/s10551-014-2497-9 · Cited by 384
Greenwash and Green Purchase Intention: The Mediating Role of Green Skepticism
Nguyen, T. T. H., Yang, Z., Nguyen, N., Johnson, L. W., & Cao, T. K. (2019) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su11092653 · Cited by 341
Marshall, D., McCarthy, L., McGrath, P., & Claudy, M. (2015) · Supply Chain Management: An International Journal · doi:10.1108/scm-08-2014-0267 · Cited by 332
Metadata
- Authors
- Bowen, F., & Aragon-Correa, J. A.
- Venue
- Organization & Environment
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2014-06
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 107-112
- ISSN
- 1086-0266 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7417
- OpenAlex
- W2074878073
- Cited by
- 359
- References
- 2
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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