Olaf Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3704262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olaf Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olaf |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER O |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6602-0459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Green Talk, Costly Walk
This study investigates the financial consequences of greenwashing, operationalized as the misalignment between ESG disclosure and actual ESG performance. While prior research has explored the reputational and ethical dimensions of greenwashing, its impact on firms' cost of debt remains underexamined. Drawing on a panel of 411 S&P 500 companies over a 10‐year period (2014–2023), we construct two firm‐level indicators of greenwashing, grESG and gr…
Exploring the Management Literature of Sustainable Healthcare
This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of sustainable healthcare from the perspective of the management literature. Relevant publications were retrieved from the Scopus database. A total of 85 publications from 1997 to July 2024 were analyzed using the R bibliometrix package. Findings suggest this is a nascent area of study in the management literature. Scholars span the entire world. Collaboration amongst authors is important to adv…
From Proxies to System State
Sustainability in management is often measured through scores, ratings, and disclosure narratives that can reward symbolic progress while leaving underlying social‐ecological conditions unchanged. This perspective paper offers a definition of Sustainability Management as how organizations plan, organize, lead, and control (four management functions) value creation so that it remains within ecological limits and meets social foundations over time.…
To label or not? A choice experiment testing whether labelled green bonds matter to retail investors
Green bonds are an important sustainable finance tool that can help reorient financial flows and influence public policy in addressing climate action across the global financial markets. However, this market is still in its infancy for the retail investor segment, and it has not been sufficiently examined from a behavioural policy lens. We fill this research gap by examining whether labelling and environmental benefits framing of a green bond can…
An investigation of campuses’ sustainability practices in Nigerian higher education institutions
Purpose This study aims to dive into the unique context of Nigerian universities, exploring their roles in terms of campus sustainability practices and the challenges they face while implementing sustainability initiatives. Design/methodology/approach This study investigates sustainability practices through in-depth interviews with higher education institutions (HEIs) in developing countries. Experts from eight different government-owned universi…
Environmental Protection Tax, Green Management Innovation and Corporate ESG Performance
Based on the organizational legitimacy theory, we examine the Environmental Protection Tax (EPT) Law in China as an exogenous shock to investigate its effects on companies' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes. Taking China's A‐share listed firms as the sample, a difference‐in‐difference (DID) with multiple time periods model is used for empirical testing. The results indicate that the introduction of EPT can promote the improveme…
Corporate Involvement in the Sustainable Development Goals
This study examines the extent of banks' involvement in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and factors influencing their participation in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Previous studies have highlighted the dearth of research conducted in developing countries. The study employed an explanatory sequential mixed‐methods approach across six countries underpinned by legitimacy and corporate sustainability theories. The quantitative phase involved 61…
A Comparative Analysis of Sustainable Finance Policies and Practices of Canadian Development Financial Institutions and Multilateral Development Banks
La présente étude est l'analyse comparative d'établissements de financement de développement (ÉFD) canadiens et de banques multilatérales de développement (BMD). Elle se penche sur l'intégration des principes environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance (ESG) aux décisions en matière d'investissement et à l'harmonisation des rapports d'impact avec les objectifs de développement durable. Elle inclut une analyse de contenu détaillée des rapports de …
Sustainable Finance and Climate Change
Ce numéro spécial, élaboré en collaboration avec le Global Risk Institute (GRI), examine comment le financement durable et climatique peut soutenir la transition vers une économie à faibles émissions de carbone au Canada, notamment en ce qui concerne la préparation du secteur public, la divulgation d'informations, l'intégration du secteur financier et les voies sectorielles. Les conclusions soulignent des améliorations pratiques : des données cli…
From Legitimacy to Leadership
L'industrie des capitaux privés, qui dépasse les 14 milliards de dollars d'actifs sous gestion dans le monde, est bien placée pour contribuer aux objectifs de développement durable (ODD) des Nations unies. Les auteurs analysent les rapports environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance de 33 entreprises de capitaux privés en 2020, y compris Brookfield Asset Management, la plus grande entreprise de capitaux privés au Canada. Ils examinent les ODD le…
Enhancing environmental performance
This paper examines the influence of population density, economic growth, and regulatory quality on the environmental performance of five SAARC countries from 2000 to 2020. To this end, fixed and random effects models are used. Quantitative data on socio-economic and environmental characteristics reveals notable differences across countries. The results show a significant positive and negative impact of the covariates economic growth and populati…
A voice for change? Capital markets as a key leverage point in Canada's fossil fuel industry
Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels
Urban infrastructure finance and its relationship to land markets, land development, and sustainability
Corporations and sustainable development goals communication on social media
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) introduced by the United Nations in 2015 are a framework for a sustainable world. Corporations also use the SDGs as a guideline for corporate sustainability. Based on corporate sustainability theory and legitimacy theory, the paper analyzes whether and how firms communicate about the SDGs on social media to increase their legitimacy or because they are linked to the firms' core business. The study analyzed…
Fossil Fuel Divestment Strategies
Fossil fuel divestment is discussed controversially with regard to its financial consequences and its effect on decarbonizing the economy. Theory and empirical studies suggest arguments for both financial underperformance and outperformance of divestment. Therefore, our first research objective is to understand the financial effect of divestment. The second objective is to analyze the influence of divestment strategies on the carbon intensity of …
Finance and Management for the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene era is characterized by a pronounced negative impact of human and social activities on natural ecosystems. To the extent finance, economics and management underlie human social activities, we need to reassess these fields and their role in achieving global sustainability. This article briefly presents the scientific evidence on accelerating impacts of human activities on nature, which have resulted in breach of planetary boundari…
Social banking
Empowerment Through Microfinance
Comparative Hepatitis
Environmental Impacts of Conventional and Sustainable Investment Funds Compared Using Input‐Output Life‐Cycle Assessment
This study compares equity funds that are managed according to sustainability goals with conventionally managed funds with respect to their environmental impacts. Overlap in the portfolios of sustainable equity funds and conventional equity funds can be very large. Further, the sector allocation of both types of funds is generally very similar, because portfolio managers follow a chosen benchmark to minimize risk. These two effects may result in …
Decision criteria of European and Latin American market actors for tropical forestry projects providing environmental services
Life cycle management on Swiss fruit farms
Ecosystem services from tropical forestry projects – The choice of international market actors
Expert views on sustainability and technology implementation
Twenty-one senior researchers were interviewed about their conception of sustainability and implementation in projects linked to the Alliance of Global Sustainability, a joint project of MIT (Boston), ETH (Zurich and Lausanne), UT (Tokyo), and Chalmers (Gothenburg). We identified five complementary views on sustainability: i) science is sustainable per se, ii) sustainability is an ethical relationship with the past and future, iii) sustainability…
Empowerment Through Microfinance
Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels
Corporations and sustainable development goals communication on social media
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) introduced by the United Nations in 2015 are a framework for a sustainable world. Corporations also use the SDGs as a guideline for corporate sustainability. Based on corporate sustainability theory and legitimacy theory, the paper analyzes whether and how firms communicate about the SDGs on social media to increase their legitimacy or because they are linked to the firms' core business. The study analyzed…
Ecosystem services from tropical forestry projects – The choice of international market actors
Corporate Involvement in the Sustainable Development Goals
This study examines the extent of banks' involvement in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and factors influencing their participation in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Previous studies have highlighted the dearth of research conducted in developing countries. The study employed an explanatory sequential mixed‐methods approach across six countries underpinned by legitimacy and corporate sustainability theories. The quantitative phase involved 61…
A Comparative Analysis of Sustainable Finance Policies and Practices of Canadian Development Financial Institutions and Multilateral Development Banks
La présente étude est l'analyse comparative d'établissements de financement de développement (ÉFD) canadiens et de banques multilatérales de développement (BMD). Elle se penche sur l'intégration des principes environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance (ESG) aux décisions en matière d'investissement et à l'harmonisation des rapports d'impact avec les objectifs de développement durable. Elle inclut une analyse de contenu détaillée des rapports de …
A voice for change? Capital markets as a key leverage point in Canada's fossil fuel industry
Umwelteinstellung und ökologisches Verhalten
Ohne die Kluft zwischen umweltbewußter Einstellung und ökologischem Verhalten bestreiten zu wollen, wird in diesem Beitrag die These vertreten, daß sie deutlich kleiner ist, als gemeinhin angenommen wird. Daß selten mehr als 20 Prozent der Varianz ökologischen Verhaltens durch Einstellungskonzepte erklärt werden, hängt zum einen mit der mangelnden Vergleichbarkeit der üblicherweise verwendeten Einstellungskonzepte zusammen. Zum anderen scheint di…
Expert views on sustainability and technology implementation
Twenty-one senior researchers were interviewed about their conception of sustainability and implementation in projects linked to the Alliance of Global Sustainability, a joint project of MIT (Boston), ETH (Zurich and Lausanne), UT (Tokyo), and Chalmers (Gothenburg). We identified five complementary views on sustainability: i) science is sustainable per se, ii) sustainability is an ethical relationship with the past and future, iii) sustainability…
Decision criteria of European and Latin American market actors for tropical forestry projects providing environmental services
Life cycle management on Swiss fruit farms
Ecosystem services from tropical forestry projects – The choice of international market actors
Environmental Impacts of Conventional and Sustainable Investment Funds Compared Using Input‐Output Life‐Cycle Assessment
This study compares equity funds that are managed according to sustainability goals with conventionally managed funds with respect to their environmental impacts. Overlap in the portfolios of sustainable equity funds and conventional equity funds can be very large. Further, the sector allocation of both types of funds is generally very similar, because portfolio managers follow a chosen benchmark to minimize risk. These two effects may result in …
Comparative Hepatitis
Social banking
Empowerment Through Microfinance
Fossil Fuel Divestment Strategies
Fossil fuel divestment is discussed controversially with regard to its financial consequences and its effect on decarbonizing the economy. Theory and empirical studies suggest arguments for both financial underperformance and outperformance of divestment. Therefore, our first research objective is to understand the financial effect of divestment. The second objective is to analyze the influence of divestment strategies on the carbon intensity of …
Finance and Management for the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene era is characterized by a pronounced negative impact of human and social activities on natural ecosystems. To the extent finance, economics and management underlie human social activities, we need to reassess these fields and their role in achieving global sustainability. This article briefly presents the scientific evidence on accelerating impacts of human activities on nature, which have resulted in breach of planetary boundari…
Corporations and sustainable development goals communication on social media
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) introduced by the United Nations in 2015 are a framework for a sustainable world. Corporations also use the SDGs as a guideline for corporate sustainability. Based on corporate sustainability theory and legitimacy theory, the paper analyzes whether and how firms communicate about the SDGs on social media to increase their legitimacy or because they are linked to the firms' core business. The study analyzed…
Urban infrastructure finance and its relationship to land markets, land development, and sustainability
Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels
A voice for change? Capital markets as a key leverage point in Canada's fossil fuel industry
Enhancing environmental performance
This paper examines the influence of population density, economic growth, and regulatory quality on the environmental performance of five SAARC countries from 2000 to 2020. To this end, fixed and random effects models are used. Quantitative data on socio-economic and environmental characteristics reveals notable differences across countries. The results show a significant positive and negative impact of the covariates economic growth and populati…
To label or not? A choice experiment testing whether labelled green bonds matter to retail investors
Green bonds are an important sustainable finance tool that can help reorient financial flows and influence public policy in addressing climate action across the global financial markets. However, this market is still in its infancy for the retail investor segment, and it has not been sufficiently examined from a behavioural policy lens. We fill this research gap by examining whether labelling and environmental benefits framing of a green bond can…
An investigation of campuses’ sustainability practices in Nigerian higher education institutions
Purpose This study aims to dive into the unique context of Nigerian universities, exploring their roles in terms of campus sustainability practices and the challenges they face while implementing sustainability initiatives. Design/methodology/approach This study investigates sustainability practices through in-depth interviews with higher education institutions (HEIs) in developing countries. Experts from eight different government-owned universi…
Environmental Protection Tax, Green Management Innovation and Corporate ESG Performance
Based on the organizational legitimacy theory, we examine the Environmental Protection Tax (EPT) Law in China as an exogenous shock to investigate its effects on companies' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes. Taking China's A‐share listed firms as the sample, a difference‐in‐difference (DID) with multiple time periods model is used for empirical testing. The results indicate that the introduction of EPT can promote the improveme…
Corporate Involvement in the Sustainable Development Goals
This study examines the extent of banks' involvement in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and factors influencing their participation in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Previous studies have highlighted the dearth of research conducted in developing countries. The study employed an explanatory sequential mixed‐methods approach across six countries underpinned by legitimacy and corporate sustainability theories. The quantitative phase involved 61…
A Comparative Analysis of Sustainable Finance Policies and Practices of Canadian Development Financial Institutions and Multilateral Development Banks
La présente étude est l'analyse comparative d'établissements de financement de développement (ÉFD) canadiens et de banques multilatérales de développement (BMD). Elle se penche sur l'intégration des principes environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance (ESG) aux décisions en matière d'investissement et à l'harmonisation des rapports d'impact avec les objectifs de développement durable. Elle inclut une analyse de contenu détaillée des rapports de …
Sustainable Finance and Climate Change
Ce numéro spécial, élaboré en collaboration avec le Global Risk Institute (GRI), examine comment le financement durable et climatique peut soutenir la transition vers une économie à faibles émissions de carbone au Canada, notamment en ce qui concerne la préparation du secteur public, la divulgation d'informations, l'intégration du secteur financier et les voies sectorielles. Les conclusions soulignent des améliorations pratiques : des données cli…
From Legitimacy to Leadership
L'industrie des capitaux privés, qui dépasse les 14 milliards de dollars d'actifs sous gestion dans le monde, est bien placée pour contribuer aux objectifs de développement durable (ODD) des Nations unies. Les auteurs analysent les rapports environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance de 33 entreprises de capitaux privés en 2020, y compris Brookfield Asset Management, la plus grande entreprise de capitaux privés au Canada. Ils examinent les ODD le…
Green Talk, Costly Walk
This study investigates the financial consequences of greenwashing, operationalized as the misalignment between ESG disclosure and actual ESG performance. While prior research has explored the reputational and ethical dimensions of greenwashing, its impact on firms' cost of debt remains underexamined. Drawing on a panel of 411 S&P 500 companies over a 10‐year period (2014–2023), we construct two firm‐level indicators of greenwashing, grESG and gr…
Exploring the Management Literature of Sustainable Healthcare
This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of sustainable healthcare from the perspective of the management literature. Relevant publications were retrieved from the Scopus database. A total of 85 publications from 1997 to July 2024 were analyzed using the R bibliometrix package. Findings suggest this is a nascent area of study in the management literature. Scholars span the entire world. Collaboration amongst authors is important to adv…
Business (14 works) · Sustainability (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Sustainable development (8 works) · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (7 works) · Environmental Sustainability in Business (7 works) · Finance (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works)