Voluntary agreements to improve environmental quality: symbolic and substantive cooperation

By Magali A. Delmas, María J. Montes-Sancho. 2009

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Eco-Premium or Eco-Penalty? Eco-Labels and Quality in the Organic Wine Market (2012, unknown): “The LCV environmental rating is compiled by scoring how each state’s elected representatives vote on a host of important environmental issues and has been used as a measure of the environmental sentiment of the people of a state (Delmas & Montes-Sancho, 2010, 2011).12”
Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing (2016, unknown): “For example, companies have created their own corporate governance standards in order to appear rigorous while avoiding complying with more stringent standards (Okhmatovskiy and David, 2012), developed voluntary self-regulation programs to forestall the implementation of mandatory ones (Lenox, 2006;”
Identifying and Ranking the Determinants of Tourism Performance (2012, background): “Across most industries, developing an understanding of the determinants behind superior performance has been an ongoing quest of managers and scholars who deal with strategy (Durand and Vargas 2003; Delmas, Russo, and Montes-Sancho 2007).”
Greenwash vs. Brownwash: Exaggeration and Undue Modesty in Corporate Sustainability Disclosure (2015, background): “…variable thus measures the extent of NGO pressure (Maxwell et al. 2000, Innes and Sam 2008, Sine and Lee 2009) and may also be considered to represent the environmental preferences of the population of the state in which a firm operates (Kassinis and Vafeas 2006, Delmas and Montes-Sancho 2010).”
How do investors respond to Green Company Awards in China (2013, background): “A neutral response may occur because external parties cannot distinguish “greenwash” (Lyon and Maxwell 2011) or “symbolic action” (Pfeffer 1981; Westphal and Zajac 1994; Delmas and Montes-Sancho 2010)”
The Paradox of Corporate Social Responsibility Standards (2013, unknown): “…motivations rather than on external sanctions, several critics have pointed out that the voluntary nature of CSR standards represents a weakness that can lead to poor effectiveness of the standards (Bondy et al. 2004; Delmas and Keller 2005; Delmas and Montes-Sancho 2010; Simpson et al. 2012).”
US State Policies for Renewable Energy: Context and Effectiveness (2011, methodology): “In this, we build on research that was conducted in the policy and management field (Green et al., 1996; Delmas and Tokat, 2005; Delmas and Montes, 2010; Khanna and Damon, 1999; King and Lenox, 2000; Rivera, 2002; Rivera and DeLeon, 2004; Vandenberghe and Robin, 2004;Welch et al., 2000).”
Triangulating Environmental Performance: What Do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Really Capture? (2013, background): “Or, more cynically, they may put in place processes for symbolic purposes but not meaning-fully pursue substantial outcomes (Delmas & Cuerel Burbano, 2011; Delmas & Montes-Sancho, 2010).”
Beyond Good Intentions: Designing CSR Initiatives for Greater Social Impact (2020, background): “For example, early and late participants in voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) systematically differ in their substantive or symbolic implementation of such programs (Delmas & Montes-Sancho, 2010).”