The Impact of Smart Ecological Monitoring on Corporate ESG Greenwashing Behavior: -- Quasi-Natural Empirical Evidence Based on Ecological Monitoring Data

Ruyu He; Huan Huang

doi:10.54097/srr2r909

Authors

Ruyu He
Huan Huang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/srr2r909

Keywords:

Smart Ecological Monitoring, ESG Greenwashing, Digital Regulation, Agency Cost, Information Disclosure Transparency, Financing Constraints

Abstract

As for the global green shift and corporations are doing their very own version, which is ESG greenwash, and that's becoming a bit like a distortion when companies disclose all other info rather than the financial stuff. Using enterprise samples used as data sources in this article from 2014-2025, we examine how the use of smart ecosystemic surveillance can help stop firms from engaging in ESG greenwashing and the causes behind it. It is discovered to the research, the smart ecological monitoring was implemented, which greatly reduced corporate ESG greenwashing behaviour. This conclusion also went through robustness checks such as parallel trends check and placebos, and alternate variants. Mechanism mainly goes through 3 channels, improve the transparency of corporates’ info disclosure, reduce agency costs, and ease the fin constraint. And then heterogeneity analysis, we see that there is a big inhibitory effect coming from smart ecological monitering against ESG greenwashing. In that specific context, we could see that this happened much stronger with sov. Enterprise, the company located in a west part area, and non high tech type of business. It can show whether smart ecology supervision has a different effect in controlling corporate ESG information disclosing behavior based on the different background. The paper also brings more research materials for digital watching over in corporate e-society information disclosures; offers very helpful experience and real ways about improving e-soils and blueprints that use tech and push up the progress of cash venues.

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