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Third-party certification, sponsorship, and consumers’ ecolabel use

Darnall, Nicole; Ji, Hyunjung; Vázquez-Brust, Diego A. - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 150 (2018) 4, pp. 953-969

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Labels as Nudges? An Experimental Study of Car Eco-Labels

Codagnone, Cristiano - 2016

This article presents the results of a laboratory experiment and an online multi-country experiment testing the effect of motor vehicle eco-labels on consumers. The laboratory study featured a discrete choice task and questions on comprehension, while the ten countries online experiment included...

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The Institutional Design of Ecolabels : Sponsorship Signals Rule Strength

Darnall, Nicole; Ji, Hyunjung; Potoski, Matthew - 2022

ecolabel sponsorship is a signal that can help consumers distinguish among ecolabels according to the quality of their … performance, monitoring, and conformance, the strength of these rules varies across labels according to sponsoring organization … rule structures. Taken as a whole, these findings suggest that sponsorship may signal to consumers important information …

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Eco-Labeling

Czarnezki, Jason J.; Pollans, Margot J.; Main, Sarah - 2018

Eco-labels, certifications, and seals of approval serve a variety of functions, including communicating to businesses and consumers the environmental attributes of a particular product or the dangers that product may pose. Eco-labels have the potential to improve environmental outcomes in a...

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Attitude of Romanian Consumers Related to Products’ Ecological Labelling

Dinu, Vasile - 2013

The consumers play an important role in the protection of environment by their choices when they purchase products. Consequently, with a view to manufacture products with minimum impact on environment as well as to influence the conduct of consumers and improve the ecological performance of...

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A Comparative Study of European Sustainable Finance Labels

Megaeva, Karina; Engelen, Peter-Jan; Van Liedekerke, Luc - 2021

-label) and six ESG-focused Labels (the Austrian Umweltzeichen label, the Belgian Towards Sustainability label, the French ISR …

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Divergence in Mutual Fund Sustainability Labelling

Ramos, Sofia Brito; Cortez, Maria C.; Silva, Florinda - 2022

Several labels for sustainable investment funds have emerged in Europe, providing important cues for investor decision making. Using a dataset of labeled equity and fixed-income funds, this paper examines the coherence of the signals sent by sustainable labels and certifications sponsored by...

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Can Ecolabels Influence Firms’ Sustainability Strategy and Stakeholder Behavior?

Darnall, Nicole - 2016

Ecolabels are policies and programs that are designed to signal information to stakeholders about a product's sustainability attributes and reduce stakeholder uncertainty about the validity of green product claims. However, for ecolabels to be successful at addressing information asymmetries...

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Consumers' Appreciation of Regional Certification Labels : A Pan-European Study

van Ittersum, Koert; Meulenberg, Matthew T.G; Trijp, … - 2010

Successful regional products, such as Florida oranges, Idaho potatoes and Parma ham, often have to compete against products passing themselves off as the authentic product using the exact same name. This unfair competition misleads consumers, discourages small- and medium-sized enterprises...

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Labeling Policies and Market Behavior : Quality Standard and Voluntary Label Adoption

Bottega, Lucie; Delacote, Philippe; Ibanez-Hafkamp, Lisette - 2010

This paper focus’s on the third-party certifiers’ strategy when choosing a required label quality, and the consequent market outcome. We consider two different objectives of the certifier: maximizing global demand for the labeled product (wide public policy), or maximizing global quality of...

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