Skip to main content
Journal cover image

Corporate transparency and green management

Publication ,  Journal Article
Vaccaro, A; Echeverri, DP
Published in: Journal of Business Ethics
February 5, 2010

How can firms support their customers' collaborative, social responsibility initiatives - and especially pro-environmental, firm-customer collaborations? Does corporate transparency affect customers' willingness to undertake pro-environmental collaborative programs? This study addresses these questions in relation to the US residential electricity market. It focuses on the impact of customers' perceptions of the utility's degree of transparency and on the willingness to engage in pro-environmental behavior (PEB) related to electricity consumption. The responses of 1257 interviewees from US households to questions related to their electricity suppliers are analyzed through structural equation models (SEMs) using latent variables. Results show that customers' perceptions of an electricity utility's transparency affect their willingness to collaborate in environmental programs, and that the degree of perceived transparency of the utility is related to customers' environmental awareness. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

Duke Scholars

Published In

Journal of Business Ethics

DOI

EISSN

1573-0697

ISSN

0167-4544

Publication Date

February 5, 2010

Volume

95

Issue

3

Start / End Page

487 / 506

Related Subject Headings

  • Applied Ethics
  • 5001 Applied ethics
  • 2201 Applied Ethics
  • 1505 Marketing
  • 1503 Business and Management
 

Citation

APA
Chicago
ICMJE
MLA
NLM
Vaccaro, A., & Echeverri, D. P. (2010). Corporate transparency and green management. Journal of Business Ethics, 95(3), 487–506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-010-0435-z
Vaccaro, A., and D. P. Echeverri. “Corporate transparency and green management.” Journal of Business Ethics 95, no. 3 (February 5, 2010): 487–506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-010-0435-z.
Vaccaro A, Echeverri DP. Corporate transparency and green management. Journal of Business Ethics. 2010 Feb 5;95(3):487–506.
Vaccaro, A., and D. P. Echeverri. “Corporate transparency and green management.” Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 95, no. 3, Feb. 2010, pp. 487–506. Scopus, doi:10.1007/s10551-010-0435-z.
Vaccaro A, Echeverri DP. Corporate transparency and green management. Journal of Business Ethics. 2010 Feb 5;95(3):487–506.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of Business Ethics

DOI

EISSN

1573-0697

ISSN

0167-4544

Publication Date

February 5, 2010

Volume

95

Issue

3

Start / End Page

487 / 506

Related Subject Headings

  • Applied Ethics
  • 5001 Applied ethics
  • 2201 Applied Ethics
  • 1505 Marketing
  • 1503 Business and Management