why consumers don't punish big polluters for greenwashing lies

  • Written by: Adam Austen Kay, Lecturer, School of Business, The University of Queensland
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Stigma is an awful burden for business. But what if – for some companies – stigma is an asset?

That’s what I and an international team of researchers set out to investigate in a new paper published in the Journal of Management Studies.

We examined how consumers around the world responded to firms in stigmatised...

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