The Diffusion of Voluntary International Management Standards: Responsible Care, ISO 9000, and ISO 14001 in the Chemical Industry

The Diffusion of Voluntary International Management Standards: Responsible Care, ISO 9000, and ISO 14001 in the Chemical Industry

This article analyzes the factors that explain the international diffusion of voluntary international management standards. We argue that international management standards should not be analyzed in isolation but in conjunction with other standards and their institutional environment. We present two opposite views explaining how the previous diffusion of management standards facilitates or hamp...

Diffusion of ISO 9000 standards and international trade

An Institutional Perspective on the Diffusion of International Management System Standards: The Case of the Environmental Management Standard ISO 14001

This paper analyzes how natiotial institutiotial factors affect the adoption of the international environmental management standard ISO 14001, using a panel of 139 countries from 1996 to 2006. The analysis emphasizes that during the emerging phase of the standard, the potential lack of consensus within the constituents of the national institutional environment concerning the value of a new stan...

Quality Management and Iso 9000 Standards in the Egyptian Construction Industry

Quality is considered to be one of the most critical and widely discussed issues worldwide nowadays. It is considered to be one of the key factors that affect customer satisfaction. ISO 9000 standards are the most popular and formal quality management systems that help companies in identifying and meeting their customers’ requirements and expectations. ISO 9000 certification has become a prereq...

A Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Global Diffusion of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 Certification

W study the global diffusion of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certification using a network diffusion framework. We start by investigating the presence and nature of contagion effects by defining alternative cross-country networks and testing their relative strength. Second, we study how the rate of diffusion differs between the two standards and between earlyand later-adopting countries. Third, we id...