Does It Really Pay to Be Green? An Empirical Study of Firm Environmental and Financial Performance: An Empirical Study of Firm Environmental and Financial Performance

By Andrew A. King, Michael J. Lenox. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. C. Ghisetti
2. Elisabeth Albertini
3. Ulrich Oberndorfer
4. P. Romilly
5. Omaima A. G. Hassan
6. S. Dorobantu
7. Adam Ryszko
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In Marketing

1. Marcus Wagner
2. Timo Busch
3. Elisabeth Albertini
4. C. Ghisetti
5. Stefan Lewandowski
6. K. Rennings
7. Omaima A. G. Hassan
8. V. H. Hoffmann

In Strategy and Management

1. Marcus Wagner
2. Timo Busch
3. Omaima A. G. Hassan
4. Elisabeth Albertini
5. C. Ghisetti
6. S. Dorobantu
7. Stefan Lewandowski
8. P. Romilly

Citations in the corpus

• Dynamics of Environmental and Financial Performance (2015, neutral): “These results are consistent with antecedent studies (Elsayed & Paton, 2005; King & Lenox, 2001, 2002).”
• Changing Practice on Sustainability: Understanding and Overcoming the Organizational and Psychological Barriers to Action (2007, neutral): “(King and Lenox, 2001; Margolis and Walsh, 2001) or does it ‘Pay to be sustainable?’”
• How Hot Is Your Bottom Line? Linking Carbon and Financial Performance (2011, background): “(King & Lenox, 2001; Orsato, 2006; Rowley & Berman, 2000).”
• The Effect of Environmental and Social Performance on the Stock Performance of European Corporations (2007, methodology): “Many studies may even exclusively use the TRI data to measure environmental performance of companies (see e.g., Hamilton 1995; Hart and Ahuja 1996; Konar and Cohen 1997; Khanna et al. 1998; King and Lenox 2001).”
• Greenwash vs. Brownwash: Exaggeration and Undue Modesty in Corporate Sustainability Disclosure (2015, background): “As social expectations for corporate responsibility have risen, many scholars and consultants have argued that it “pays to be green” (Porter and van der Linde 1995, Hart and Ahuja 1996, King and Lenox 2001).”
• Relations between corporate economic performance, environmental disclosure and greenhouse gas emissions: new insights. (2018, methodology): “Exceptions are the studies by King and Lenox (2001) and Clarkson et al. (2011b), although the former considers environmental performance and economic performance but not environmental disclosure, whilst the latter analyses environmental performance and economic performance over the period 1990 to…”