Talk the Talk, But Walk the Walk? Female-Managed Firms and Greenwashing Behavior

IF 5.2 2区 心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Dengjun Zhang
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Abstract

Previous studies have examined gender differences in environmental disclosure and corporate environmental responsibility, which are elements used to measure greenwashing. However, little attention has been given to the impact of firm leaders’ gender on greenwashing. This study applies a logit econometric model to estimate the probability of being greenwashers for female-led firms compared to male-led firms, using a sample of 7,870 private firms from 28 countries. Our main results suggest that female-managed firms are not less likely to conduct greenwashing. This study also evaluates the impact on greenwashing of other determinants, such as access to finance, firm size, pollution degree, and region, and whether the gender gap in greenwashing is attributed to the primary drivers of greenwashing. Finally, we draw implications from this study on how to enhance the credibility of environmental initiatives for both female-led and male-led firms.
说到做到?女性管理的公司和洗绿行为
先前的研究考察了环境披露和企业环境责任方面的性别差异,这是衡量“洗绿”的要素。然而,很少有人关注企业领导者的性别对绿色清洗的影响。这项研究应用logit计量经济学模型,使用来自28个国家的7870家私营公司的样本,估计女性领导的公司与男性领导的公司相比成为绿色垫圈的概率。我们的主要研究结果表明,女性管理的公司进行绿色清洗的可能性并不低。这项研究还评估了其他决定因素对绿色清洗的影响,如获得资金的机会、企业规模、污染程度和地区,以及绿色清洗中的性别差距是否归因于绿色清洗的主要驱动因素。最后,我们从这项研究中得出了如何提高女性主导和男性主导企业环境倡议可信度的启示。
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CiteScore
13.30
自引率
1.80%
发文量
13
期刊介绍: Environment & Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal designed to report rigorous experimental and theoretical work focusing on the influence of the physical environment on human behavior at the individual, group, and institutional levels.
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