Effects of greenwashing on financial performance: Moderation through local environmental regulation and media coverage

Recent research suggests that the effect of greenwashing and corporate financial performance (CFP) is ambiguous. This call for study the contextual factors that create contingencies in the greenwashing–CFP relationship. Using a sample of 2816 observations covering 735 Chinese‐listed firms in 21 diff...

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Vydané v:Business strategy and the environment Ročník 32; číslo 1; s. 820 - 841
Hlavní autori: Li, Wei, Li, Weining, Seppänen, Veikko, Koivumäki, Timo
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Chichester Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.01.2023
Predmet:
Ambiguity
Asymmetric information
Asymmetry
China
Contingencies
Environmental protection
Environmental regulations
False information
Financial performance
Greenwashing
local environmental regulation
Mass media effects
Media coverage
Moderation
Regulation
stakeholder engagement
Visibility
ISSN:0964-4733, 1099-0836
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Shrnutí:Recent research suggests that the effect of greenwashing and corporate financial performance (CFP) is ambiguous. This call for study the contextual factors that create contingencies in the greenwashing–CFP relationship. Using a sample of 2816 observations covering 735 Chinese‐listed firms in 21 different industries from 2013 to 2017, this research examines the effect of greenwashing on CFP and explores the moderating effects of local environmental regulation, media visibility and media favourability. Results show that greenwashing positively affects CFP and effect weakened with stringent environmental regulations and reversed with low media favourability. Our finding implies that stakeholders could hardly identify greenwashing in the context of an emerging economy with high‐level information asymmetry. However, local environmental regulation and negative media coverage could reduce this information asymmetry, making greenwashing easier to be identified. It is the first study to investigate greenwashing–CFP relationship from institutional environment perspective.
Bibliografia:Funding information
Humanity and Social Science Program Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China, Grant/Award Number: 17YJA630044; National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Number: 71772068; Philosophy and Social Sciences Foundation for Colleges and Universities of Guangdong, Grant/Award Number: 2019GXJK240
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ISSN:0964-4733
1099-0836
DOI:10.1002/bse.3177