Publication

Aragón-Correa, J. A., Marcus, A., & Hurtado-Torres, N. (2016). The Natural Environmental Strategies of International Firms: Old Controversies and New Evidence on Performance and Disclosure. The Academy of Management Perspectives, 30(1), 24-39.

Abstract

Previous academic and popular literature has raised important debates concerning the contradictory incentives for international firms to reduce their environmental impacts and offer transparent environmental information about their operations. As an exhaustive review of this literature revealed mixed and partial evidence, we compared the individual corporate environmental performance and disclosure of the 100 most international nonfinancial firms in the world to those of 16,023 firms in their industries and a group of selected firms similar