The Gap Between Talk and Action: A Review of Corporate Greenwashing
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and substantive environmental action. It explores the concept's definitions, which range from false disclosure to a policy-practice decoupling,
and analyzes its driving factors through institutional, signaling, and stakeholder theories. The review critically assesses key measurement approaches, such as those targeting selective disclosure and the "talk-action gap, " alongside emerging methods using natural language processing. It concludes by identifying gaps in the literature and suggesting directions for future research to improve the detection and understanding
of greenwashing.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70711/frim.v4i2.8773
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