Why Do Manufacturing Facilities Introduce Environmental Management Systems? Improving and/or Signaling Performance

In this paper we explore the motivation for the introduction of environmental management systems, and their certification. A distinction is drawn between their role in bringing about better compliance or improved performance, and as external indicators of good environmental practices to both other m...

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Main Authors:	Johnstone, Nick, Labonne, Julien
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General L600 Corporate Culture Social Responsibility M140 Pollution Control Adoption Costs Distributional Effects Employment Effects Q520 Environmental Economics: Government Policy Q580
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5890

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spelling	okr-10986-58902021-04-23T14:02:23Z Why Do Manufacturing Facilities Introduce Environmental Management Systems? Improving and/or Signaling Performance Johnstone, Nick Labonne, Julien Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General L600 Corporate Culture Social Responsibility M140 Pollution Control Adoption Costs Distributional Effects Employment Effects Q520 Environmental Economics: Government Policy Q580 In this paper we explore the motivation for the introduction of environmental management systems, and their certification. A distinction is drawn between their role in bringing about better compliance or improved performance, and as external indicators of good environmental practices to both other market participants and regulatory authorities. Drawing upon a database of approximately 4000 facilities in seven OECD countries, empirical evidence is found for the role that both factors play in encouraging the adoption and certification of EMS's, but that the relative importance of different factors varies according to facility size. 2012-03-30T07:35:02Z 2012-03-30T07:35:02Z 2009 Journal Article Ecological Economics 09218009 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5890 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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topic	Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General L600 Corporate Culture Social Responsibility M140 Pollution Control Adoption Costs Distributional Effects Employment Effects Q520 Environmental Economics: Government Policy Q580
spellingShingle	Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General L600 Corporate Culture Social Responsibility M140 Pollution Control Adoption Costs Distributional Effects Employment Effects Q520 Environmental Economics: Government Policy Q580 Johnstone, Nick Labonne, Julien Why Do Manufacturing Facilities Introduce Environmental Management Systems? Improving and/or Signaling Performance
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description	In this paper we explore the motivation for the introduction of environmental management systems, and their certification. A distinction is drawn between their role in bringing about better compliance or improved performance, and as external indicators of good environmental practices to both other market participants and regulatory authorities. Drawing upon a database of approximately 4000 facilities in seven OECD countries, empirical evidence is found for the role that both factors play in encouraging the adoption and certification of EMS's, but that the relative importance of different factors varies according to facility size.
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author	Johnstone, Nick Labonne, Julien
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title	Why Do Manufacturing Facilities Introduce Environmental Management Systems? Improving and/or Signaling Performance
title_short	Why Do Manufacturing Facilities Introduce Environmental Management Systems? Improving and/or Signaling Performance
title_full	Why Do Manufacturing Facilities Introduce Environmental Management Systems? Improving and/or Signaling Performance
title_fullStr	Why Do Manufacturing Facilities Introduce Environmental Management Systems? Improving and/or Signaling Performance
title_full_unstemmed	Why Do Manufacturing Facilities Introduce Environmental Management Systems? Improving and/or Signaling Performance
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Why Do Manufacturing Facilities Introduce Environmental Management Systems? Improving and/or Signaling Performance

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