Why do manufacturing facilities introduce environmental management systems? Improving and/or signaling performance ☆

By N. Johnstone, Julien Labonne. 2009

230 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract 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.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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In Building and Construction

1. C. Tam
2. M. Mazzanti
3. Jorge de Brito
4. L. Evangelista
5. Vivian W. Y. Tam

In Marketing

1. S. Borghesi
2. M. Mazzanti
3. Sandro Montresor
4. Giulio Cainelli
5. C. Tam
6. Alberto Marzucchi
7. D. Antonioli
8. C. Ghisetti

In Strategy and Management

1. Sandro Montresor
2. S. Borghesi
3. Giulio Cainelli
4. M. Mazzanti
5. C. Tam
6. Xiaodong Xu
7. Alberto Marzucchi
8. C. Ghisetti

Citations in the corpus

• Linking emission trading to environmental innovation: Evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry (2015, background): “In what follows we group contributions according to the field to which they seem more closely allied. has also received strong attention among the supply-side drivers of EI (Arimura et al., 2008; Frondel et al., 2004; Wagner, 2007, 2008; Johnstone and Labonne, 2009).”
• Factors that Drive Chinese Listed Companies in Voluntary Disclosure of Environmental Information (2012, background): “A primary focus of corporate governance is to deal with the roles, power, and responsibilities between suppliers of finance and corporate management (Johnstone and Labonne 2009; Shleifer and Vishny 1997).”
• Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization (2012, background): “Among the others, see Cleff and Rennings (1999), Rennings (2000), Brunnermeier and Cohen (2003), Rennings et al. (2004, 2006), Wagner (2006, 2007a, 2007b, 2008), Horbach (2008), Johnstone and Labonne (2009), Ziegler and Nogareda (2009), Horbach and Oltra (2010) and Kesidou and Pemirel (2010).”