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brownwashing: a standalone construct

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Sustainability management

firms understating or withholding their real environmental achievements in disclosures, the mirror image of greenwashing.

In sustainability management, brownwashing refers to firms understating or withholding their real environmental achievements in disclosures, the mirror image of greenwashing. This meaning comes from Kim (2015) in Organization Science.[1]

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References

  1. Kim, E., & Lyon, T. P. (2015). Greenwash vs. Brownwash: Exaggeration and Undue Modesty in Corporate Sustainability Disclosure. Organization Science, 26(3), 705-723. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2014.0949

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