Grey zone in–greenwash out. A review of greenwashing research and implications for the voluntary-mandatory transition of CSR

L Gatti, P Seele, L Rademacher - International Journal of Corporate Social …, 2019 - Springer
As public concern over greenwashing has grown in the last two decades, academic
research has increased correspondingly, and there is now a substantial body of research …

Corporate social responsibility decoupling: a systematic literature review and future research agenda

S Talpur, M Nadeem, H Roberts - Journal of Applied Accounting …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to synthesize the corporate social responsibility decoupling
(CSRD) literature, CSRD's causes and consequences and discuss other organizational …

Effects of greenwashing on financial performance: Moderation through local environmental regulation and media coverage

W Li, W Li, V Seppänen… - Business strategy and the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research suggests that the effect of greenwashing and corporate financial
performance (CFP) is ambiguous. This call for study the contextual factors that create …

Perceived greenwashing: the effects of green marketing on environmental and product perceptions

S Szabo, J Webster - Journal of business ethics, 2021 - Springer
Many firms are striving to improve their environmental positions by presenting their
environmental efforts to the public. To do so, they are applying green marketing strategies to …

Greenwashing and environmental communication: Effects on stakeholders' perceptions

R Torelli, F Balluchi, A Lazzini - Business strategy and the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Since the first Earth Day in the 1970s, corporate environmental performance has
increased dramatically, and cases of greenwashing have increased sharply. The term …

The influence of greenwashing perception on green purchasing intentions: The mediating role of green word-of-mouth and moderating role of green concern

L Zhang, D Li, C Cao, S Huang - Journal of cleaner production, 2018 - Elsevier
With consumers' increasing awareness of environmental problems, green marketing is
becoming an important approach for firms to gain a competitive advantage. However, green …

Impact of green marketing, greenwashing and green confusion on green brand equity

A Qayyum, RA Jamil, A Sehar - Spanish Journal of Marketing-ESIC, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to examine the negative effects of excessive product packaging
(EPP), greenwashing and green confusion on green brand equity (GBE). Furthermore, the …

Greenwash and green purchase intention: The mediating role of green skepticism

TTH Nguyen, Z Yang, N Nguyen, LW Johnson, TK Cao - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Along with the acceleration of green marketing in recent years, greenwash has been utilized
by firms to get ahead of their rivals. Underpinned by the cognition–affect–behavior (CAB) …

Green lies and their effect on intention to invest

L Gatti, M Pizzetti, P Seele - Journal of business research, 2021 - Elsevier
The article explores the consequences of greenwashing deceptions on intention to invest. It
analyses whether the presence of a greenwashing lie to stakeholders is detrimental to …

Greenwashing in hotels: A structural model of trust and behavioral intentions

H Chen, S Bernard, I Rahman - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
This study developed a model linking perceived greenwashing, green trust, intention to
revisit, intention to participate, and intention to spread negative word of mouth, based on …