Measuring corporate environmental performance: the trade-offs of sustainability ratings

By Magali A. Delmas, Vered Blass. 2010

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Operational Productivity, Corporate Social Performance, Financial Performance, and Risk in Manufacturing Firms (2016, background): “Multiple studies note that the divergent nature of CSP dimensions and measures often lead to problems with measurement and analyses in research (Wood 2010, Delmas and Blass 2010, Orlitzky 2013).”
Sustainable Development and Financial Markets (2016, background): “In a related study, Delmas and Blass (2010) examine the criteria for comparing companies and the pros and cons of current sustainable investment practices.”
A Review of Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practices in Canada (2012, result): “This finding supports that the worst polluters tend to be the best reporters (Delmas and Blass 2010).”
Triangulating Environmental Performance: What Do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Really Capture? (2013, methodology): “Yet the proprietary nature of rating methodologies often precludes full transparency; as a consequence, little is known about the specifics behind each rating scheme (Chatterji & Levine, 2006; Delmas & Blass, 2010).”
Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings (2020, background): “Our paper extends a stream of research that has documented the divergence of ESG ratings (Chatterji et al., 2016, 2009; Semenova and Hassel, 2015; Dorfleitner et al., 2015; Delmas and Blass, 2010).”
Determinants and consequences of employee attributions of corporate social responsibility as substantive or symbolic (2016, result): “This reflects the fact that most complex organizations will have a portfolio of CSR, some “good” and some “bad”, consistent with empirical findings of Delmas and Blass (2010) and Chatterji, Levine, and Toffel (2009) in their examinations of CSR environmental performance.”
Rating the Raters: Evaluating how ESG Rating Agencies Integrate Sustainability Principles (2019, background): “ESG ratings methodologies may compensate higher scores in one domain with very low scores in another domain [17,30,31].”
Convergence in Environmental Reporting: Assessing the Carbon Disclosure Project (2013, background): “Recent findings suggest that improved disclosure and management are correlated with higher toxic releases and lower environmental compliance (Delmas and Blass, 2010), suggesting that improved disclosures may not correlate with improved environmental performance.”