The Impact of Perceived Greenwashing on Customer Satisfaction and the Contingent Role of Capability Reputation

We investigate the impact of perceived greenwashing on customer satisfaction. Unlike prior research that largely examines customer perceptions associated with irresponsible behavior, we focus on cases where firms overcommit and/or do not deliver on promised socially responsible actions. We theorize...

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Vydáno v:Journal of business ethics Ročník 185; číslo 2; s. 333 - 347
Hlavní autoři: Ioannou, Ioannis, Kassinis, George, Papagiannakis, Giorgos
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.06.2023
Springer Nature B.V
Témata:
Business and Management
Business Ethics
Client satisfaction
Consumers
Customer satisfaction
Customers
Education
Ethics
False information
Hypocrisy
Indexes
Innovations
Management
Original Paper
Philosophy
Quality of Life Research
Reputations
Satisfaction
Social responsibility
Greenwashing
Corporate social responsibility
Customer satisfaction
Green product innovation
Capability reputation
ISSN:0167-4544, 1573-0697
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Shrnutí:We investigate the impact of perceived greenwashing on customer satisfaction. Unlike prior research that largely examines customer perceptions associated with irresponsible behavior, we focus on cases where firms overcommit and/or do not deliver on promised socially responsible actions. We theorize that this type of greenwashing is associated with lower customer satisfaction because customers perceive greenwashing through the lens of corporate hypocrisy. Using data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) for U.S. companies during the period 2008–2016, we document a negative link between perceived greenwashing related to green product innovation (GPI) and the ACSI index. We demonstrate that this effect is primarily triggered by corporate policies exceeding the corresponding implementation actions and not by lower levels of implementation. We also show that a firm’s capability reputation mitigates the negative effect of greenwashing on customer satisfaction. Moreover, we conduct an experiment and provide evidence confirming that GPI greenwashing is in fact perceived by customers as corporate hypocrisy.
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ISSN:0167-4544
1573-0697
DOI:10.1007/s10551-022-05151-9