The Natural Environmental Strategies of International Firms: Old Controversies and New Evidence on Performance and Disclosure

Managing Carbon Aspirations: The Influence of Corporate Climate Change Targets on Environmental Performance

“…We argue that the attributes of firms' climate change targets (their extent, form, and time horizon) are diagnostic of firms' underlying intentions. Consistent with our hypotheses, while we find no overall effect of setting climate change targets on emissions, we show that targets characterized by a commitment to more ambitious emissions reductions, a longer target time frame, and Interest in business responses to climate change is reflected in the significant growth of research especially on the strategies and practices that aim to reduce firms' carbon footprints 1 (Aragón-Correa et al 2016;Delmas and Toffel 2008;Hahn et al 2015;Wright and Nyberg 2016). Despite increasing scrutiny and pressure to address environmental issues associated with their activities, empirical evidence suggests that firms' commitment to improving environmental impacts varies significantly due to the cognitive, strategic, technical, and managerial challenges in operating in more sustainable ways (Alt et al 2015;Hussain et al 2016;Post et al 2015).…”

“…Yet one major concern is that pressures on firms to act on environmental issues have also generated incentives for firms to communicate environmental commitments that are not reflected in concrete action on environmental issues (Aragón-Correa et al 2016). Typically, critical research argues that firms engage in "greenwash," defined as "any communication that misleads people into adopting overly positive beliefs about an organization's environmental performance, practices or products" (Lyon and Montgomery 2015, p. 226), although recent research has suggested that greenwashing is only one of many forms of decoupling whereby environmental communication and performance differ at the firm level (Bowen 2014;Crilly et al 2012;Lyon and Maxwell 2011).…”

Sustainability Tensions in Supply Chains: A Case Study of Paradoxes and Their Management

“…Currently, available papers on sustainability tensions focus on sustainability reporting practices and the link to environmental performance [39], sustainability communication in luxury goods companies [40], the poverty-CO 2 reductions paradox on a national level [41] as well as multi-industry case studies at the intersection of companies and public policy [42]. The latter paper [42] also underlines the crucial role that public policy can play in foregrounding sustainability tensions, which is an important insight in the highly regulated mining industry.…”

Analyzing the Effect of Corporate Environmental Performance on Corporate Financial Performance in Developed and Developing Countries

“…Specifically, environmental NGOs, consumer associations, local communities and the media share information about corporate environmental behavior with consumers [77,78]. Consumers in developed countries, concerned about the environmental impact of business activities [79], are willing to pay more for environmentally-friendly products [80], demand for which grows as factors such as consumer's income, education and environmental awareness levels increase [81].…”