This study contributes to the EMS literature by providing a more detailed insight into the comprehensiveness of environmental management systems (EMSs) by focusing on the intensity of use of environmental management practices. In addition, the study examines the influence of institutional pressures (coercive, mimetic and normative) on the comprehensiveness of environmental management systems (E...

Increasing pressures caused by negative consequences of transportation and traffic problems in major cities, have resulted many attempts towards improvement of planning and management of transportation systems, according to sustainability objectives. In this paper, a comprehensive model is developed using a system dynamics approach to evaluate sustainable urban transportation. This model includ...

Managers in the competitive automotive sector face growing pressures terms of sustainability and environmental performance. While most efficiency studies focus on traditional financial operating indicators, this study broadens scope analysis to include Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) activities. The well-known Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-Malmquist method is employed estimate technic...

We explore from both theoretical and empirical perspectives the hypothesis that a significant part of the worldwide variability in human birthweight results from adaptive responses to local selective pressures. We first developed an agent-based model to simulate the process of evolutionary selection on life history strategy, and then we performed a comparative analysis across 89 countries world...

How to promote firms’ environmental management behavior is a concern for academics. In order explain the reasons why exhibits heterogeneity from institutional perspective, this paper seeks investigate relationship between macro-institutional pressures and behavior, with moderating effects of micro-institutional pressures. Firms’ classified into substantive symbolic behavior. Macro-institutional...

This paper examines the extent to which there are differential incentives that motivate the adoption of environmental management practices (EMPs) and pollution prevention (P2) methods. We analyze the role of internal drivers such as managerial attitudes towards the environment and external pressures using both observed characteristics of facilities and perceived pressures. We estimate a structu...