A research note on standalone corporate social responsibility reports: Signaling or greenwashing?
By Lois S. Mahoney, L. Thorne, Lianna Cecil, William D. LaGore. 2013
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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Marketing, Strategy and Management
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- Voluntary disclosure, greenhouse gas emissions and business performance: assessing the first decade of reporting (2017, background): “Indeed in some other theoretical studies voluntary over-compliance has simply been conceptualized as exercises in ‘greenwash’ i.e. simply augmenting marketing spend (see, for example, Kim and Lyon 2011, Mahoney et al. 2013).”
- Value-Enhancing Capabilities of CSR: A Brief Review of Contemporary Literature (2014, background): “Mahoney et al. (2013)argued that firms use stand-alone CSR Reports as a signal of their superior commitment to CSR. Jeffrey (2008) described ‘‘reputation risk management’’ as an explanatory framework for CSR reporting.”