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42
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2023
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1175

Overview

Thomas P. Lyon is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to Business, Management and Accounting, with specific attention to subfields including Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The main themes in their scholarly work include Environmental Sustainability in Business, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Regulation and Compliance Studies, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Management and Organizational Studies, and Political Influence and Corporate Strategies.

Thomas P. Lyon has contributed to several recent papers, with notable publications such as:

  • No End in Sight? A Greenwash Review and Research Agenda, 2023, Organization & Environment
  • No End in Sight? A Greenwash Review and Research Agenda, 2023, Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Filling the climate governance gap: Do corporate decarbonization initiatives matter as much as state and local government policy?, 2024, Energy Research & Social Science
  • The Millennial 'Meh': Correlated Groups as Collective Agents in the Automobile Field, 2020, Journal of Management Studies
  • Merchants of doubt: Corporate political action when NGO credibility is uncertain, 2020, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy

Lyon's frequent co-authors include A. Wren Montgomery, Benjamin Leffel, Julian Barg, Joshua Newell, and Glen Dowell.

The venues in which Lyon commonly publishes are:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Organization & Environment
  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Journal of Management Studies

Best Publications

  • Greenwash: Corporate Environmental Disclosure under Threat of Audit ∗

    Thomas P. Lyon;John W. Maxwell

  • The Means and End of Greenwash

    Thomas P. Lyon;A. Wren Montgomery

  • Self‐Regulation and Social Welfare: The Political Economy of Corporate Environmentalism*

    John W. Maxwell;Thomas P. Lyon;Steven C. Hackett

  • Greenwash vs. Brownwash: Exaggeration and Undue Modesty in Corporate Sustainability Disclosure

    Eun-Hee Kim;Thomas P. Lyon

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and the Environment: A Theoretical Perspective

    Thomas P. Lyon;John W. Maxwell

  • Tweetjacked: The Impact of Social Media on Corporate Greenwash

    Thomas P. Lyon;A. Wren Montgomery

  • Why Do States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards?: An Empirical Investigation

    Thomas P. Lyon;Haitao Yin

  • Corporate Environmentalism and Public Policy

    Thomas P. Lyon;John W. Maxwell

  • Strategic environmental disclosure: Evidence from the DOE's voluntary greenhouse gas registry ☆

    Eun-Hee Kim;Thomas P. Lyon

  • Voluntary Approaches to Environmental Regulation : A Survey

    T. P Lyon

  • Quality leadership when regulatory standards are forthcoming

    Stefan Lutz;Thomas P. Lyon;John W. Maxwell

  • Self-regulation, taxation and public voluntary environmental agreements

    Thomas P. Lyon;John W. Maxwell

  • Environmental Public Voluntary Programs Reconsidered

    Thomas P. Lyon;John W. Maxwell

  • 'Voluntary' Approaches to Environmental Regulation: A Survey

    Thomas P. Lyon;John W. Maxwell;John W. Maxwell

  • Greenwash: Corporate Environmental Disclosure Under Threat of Audit

    Thomas P. Lyon;John W. Maxwell;John W. Maxwell

  • CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics

    Thomas Lyon;Magali Delmas;John W. Maxwell;Pratima Bansal

  • Competing Environmental Labels

    Carolyn Fischer;Thomas P. Lyon

  • Cleaner production in small firms taking part in Mexico's Sustainable Supplier Program

    Bart van Hoof;Thomas P. Lyon

  • Environmental Disclosure Evidence From Newsweek’s Green Companies Rankings

    Thomas P. Lyon;Jay P. Shimshack

  • Astroturf: Interest Group Lobbying and Corporate Strategy

    Thomas P. Lyon;John W. Maxwell

  • When Does Institutional Investor Activism Increase Shareholder Value?: The Carbon Disclosure Project

    Eun-Hee Kim;Thomas Lyon

Frequent Co-Authors

Allen Blackman
Allen Blackman Inter-American Development Bank
Eric Bennett Rasmusen
Eric Bennett Rasmusen Indiana University
Michael W. Toffel
Michael W. Toffel Harvard University
Jean-Pascal Gond
Jean-Pascal Gond City, University of London
Fabio Pammolli
Fabio Pammolli Polytechnic University of Milan
Carolyn Fischer
Carolyn Fischer Resources For The Future
Arun Agrawal
Arun Agrawal University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Andrew J. Hoffman
Andrew J. Hoffman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tobias Hahn
Tobias Hahn Ramon Llull University
Daniel G. Brown
Daniel G. Brown University of Washington

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