...Ana Lidia de Oliveira Silva Ramalho; Marcelle Colares Oliveira; Maria Auxiliadora de Oliveira Morais; Alan Bandeira Pinheiro Purpose This article aims to be an original contribution to identify the external factors that influence greenwashing practices in Brazilian companies. Design/methodology...

...Juliane Keilmann; Thomas Koch Purpose Amidst the urgency of climate change, organizations often exaggerate their environmental commitments, resulting in a perceived gap between their environmental claims and real actions, termed as greenwashing. This paper explores the subjective nature...

... on the corporate level. Strategic communication Corporate communication Strategic silence Greenwashing Fashion industry Our study reveals that many fashion companies quietly ignore big environmental problems. We looked at how these companies talk about issues like making too much clothing...

...Sarah Marschlich; Ellis Hurtado Purpose Accusations of greenwashing and corporate scandals have increased individuals’ skepticism of companies and their CSR claims. As a result, corporations seek to improve individuals’ perceptions of the credibility and authenticity of their CSR communication...

... communication Crisis communication Greenwashing Greenbleaching In the initial stage of the systematic literature review, a broad selection of documents was made based on their reasonable satisfaction with the selection criteria, following an assessment of their titles and abstracts. This process...

... greenwashing (e.g. Mason and Mason, 2012 ; Vanhamme and Grobben, 2009). Laufer (2003) defines greenwashing as a company’s efforts to conceal/deflect environmentally deviant actions through obscuring the very environmental issue and/or providing incorrect information on the enacted solutions to the actual...