The European Union International Organization for Standardization management system the environment (ISO 14001) is established by Commission Regulation 1221/2009. This legislates a voluntary where organizations can register in community eco-management and audit scheme. In literature, this standard recognized as an instrument of international environmental protection law, introduced soft law reg...

The first purpose of the research was to assess dependence between organisational decision-makers willingness implement systemic solutions relevant insurance (RSSs) and attributes (systemic, awareness-related organisational) an organisation managed in accordance with ISO 14001. Another identify motivators that drive entities additional system elements.Earlier studies suggest structures currentl...

This paper uses data on the world’s copper mining industry to measure the impact on e¢ ciency of the adoption of the ISO 14001 environmental standard. Anecdotal and case study literature suggests that …rms are motivated to adopt this standard so as to achieve greater e¢ ciency through changes in operating procedures and processes. Using plant level panel data from 19922007 on most of the world’...

Suppliers face increasing pressure from their customers to improve their environmental performance. When firms downstream in the supply chain seek to achieve such improvements themselves, they frequently request that their suppliers adopt greener practices. This paper investigates the rationale for suppliers to comply with or resist the mandate of their customers to adopt the international envi...

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...

Environmental Management Systems (or EMSs) have become an important tool for those organizations looking to manage their environmental issues such as pollution prevention, legal compliance, and minimizing the impacts their activities cause to the environment. Indeed, the benefits of having an EMS and ISO 14001 certification aremainly realized by large organizations, as small tomedium enterprise...