Greenwash: Corporate Environmental Disclosure Under Threat of Audit

By Thomas P. Lyon, John W. Maxwell. 2006

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When corporate social responsibility motivates employee citizenship behavior: The sensitizing role of task significance (2018, background): “Another alternative mediator we explored was greenwashing, a process whereby organizations engage in CSR to manage stakeholders’ impressions and protect their own corporate reputations (Bansal & Clelland, 2004; Lyon & Maxwell, 2011).”
The impact of greenwash practices over green purchase intention: The mediating effects of green confusion, Green perceived risk, and green trust (2021, background): “Consumers will also distrust green claims even if their goods are environmentally friendly (Lyon & Maxwell, 2011).”
Greenwashing and product market competition (2021, background): “Specifically, a firm is said to greenwash when it discloses positive environmental actions while concealing negative ones to create a misleadingly positive impression of overall environmental performance (Lyon and Maxwell, 2011).”
Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (2012, background): “Lyon and Maxwell (2009) de ne greenwash as "[t]he selective disclosure of positive information about a company s environmental performance, without full disclosure of negative information on these dimensions" (p.31).”
Do Markets Punish or Reward Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling? (2020, background): “This is consistent with the firm’s greenwashing practices (Delmas & Burbano, 2011; Lyon & Maxwell, 2011; Ramus & Montiel, 2005; Walker & Wan, 2012).”
Misleading Consumers with Green Advertising? An Affect–Reason–Involvement Account of Greenwashing Effects in Environmental Advertising (2018, background): “For consumers, it is worrying that many environmental attributes of products—for instance, sustainability—cannot be verified, even after consumers use products claiming to possess those attributes (Carlson, Grove, and Kangun 1993; Lyon and Maxwell 2011).”
Why Do Countries Matter so Much in Corporate Social Performance (2016, positive): “Lyon and Maxwell (2011) find that the damage done to companies’ reputations by revelations of misrepresentation of activities detrimental to the environment is greater than the damage to reputation caused by the actual activities. Steinberg (2002) notes that the “challenges of sustained collective a”