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Communicating environmental information: are marketing claims on packaging misleading?
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posted on 1998-02-01, 00:00 authored by Michael PolonskyMichael Polonsky, J Bailey, H Baker, C Basche, C Jepson, L NeathThe increased usage of questionable environmental marketing claims has become an issue of concern for academics, policy makers and consumers. Much of the research to date, has focused on the accuracy of environmental claims in advertisements, with the information on product packaging being largely ignored. This study uses a content analysis to examine the environmental information on packaging. More specifically it examines the packaging of the population of dishwashing liquid bottles available in grocery stores in a large city in Australia. Evaluation criteria are developed to classify the various types of information and the degree to which the information is "misleading". Seven different informational categories and four accuracy categories are developed. These criteria are developed based on the existing environmental advertising literature and environmental marketing regulations in the U.S. and Australia. It was found that a majority of the packaging information can be classified as being not accurate.
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Journal of business ethicsVolume
17Issue
3Pagination
281 - 294Publisher
SpringerLocation
Berlin, GermanyISSN
0167-4544Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
1998, Kluwer Academic PublishersUsage metrics
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