The Oxford English Dictionary defines greenwashing as the “disinformation disseminated by an organisation so as to present an environmentally responsible public image” (Gillespie, 2008; Mitchell & Ramey, 2011; Ramus & Montiel, 2005; Wang & Sarkis, 2017). Others have used the definition of ...
Most researchers are based on the definitions of the Oxford English Dictionary [36] and TerraChoice [48]. In these definitions, the phenomenon is seen as a deliberate corporate action with the presence of misleading elements, focused on the deception of stakeholders. As greenwashing was first ...
Various authors have defined the concept of greenwashing (e.g. Furlow, 2010; Mitchell and Ramey, 2011; Ramus and Montiel, 2005), whereby in the Oxford English Dictionary, it is defined as “disinformation disseminated by an organization to present an environmentally responsible public image.” Thi...
The use of "wash" or "washing" in terms like “greenwashing,”“pinkwashing,” "rainbow washing,”“straightwashing,” and so on.
In addition, definitions of the concept are also quite common from various dictionary or encyclopaedia sources [40], with Becker-Olsen and Potucek [41] providing a particularly meaningful definition given the corporate social responsibility context in which it appears: Greenwashing refers to the ...
While there is growing concern about potential greenwashing practices, there seems to be limited means of identifying or proving their widespread existence, especially due to its vague definition and diverse forms. Therefore, the study of corporate greenwashing is of significant importance. There is a...