The experience of EMAS in three European countries: A cultural and competitive analysis

EMAS, The European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, has been open for participation for six years now. Looking at registrations per country, a concentration of registrations in northern European co...

Moving business/industry towards sustainable consumption: The role of NGOs

The negative environmental impact of current consumption patterns is increasing and becoming more evident. Household/consumer behavior plays a significant role in shaping these patterns. A growing ...

The business case for corporate sustainability: Literature review and research options

In the last ten years, the notion of a 'business case' for corporate sustainability has increasingly been used by the corporate sector, environmental organizations, consultancies and so on, to seek...

Environmental management systems: Empirical evidence and further perspectives

Since the mid-nineties, a significant number of companies have been applying environmental management systems (EMS), especially ISO 14001 and EMAS. This article reviews the empirical evidence of th...

Performing under pressure: Managers embracing new realities

This article is based on an empirical investigation (including interviews and a survey) into the new working conditions of managers in an age of "shareholder value". It identifies the new sources o...

Managerial issues in closing the loop

The consequences for corporations striving to meet the new requirements of "closing the loop" are investigated. An integrated managerial framework is developed to manage products over their complet...

The roles of supervisory support behaviors and environmental policy in employee ecoinitiatives at leading-edge European companies

The authors assessed the relationships of environmental policy and supervisory support behaviors to employee environmental initiatives in leading-edge companies. They developed a behaviorally ancho...

The saying “recessions reveal what auditors did not” also holds true for corporate governance. After all, good corporate governance is about making sounder decisions and ensuring better management....

Wie alles begann "Komplexität" gilt oft als das neueste Schlagwort für eine gegenwärtig zwar verbreitete, aber nicht nachhaltige Realität. Stellt man den Führungskräften global agierender Unternehm...

Sudien zeigen, dass der Einfluss von aussen auf die Wirtschaft überschätzt wird - Stakeholder nutzen zwar ihere Chancen, cohc die Möglichkeiten sind begrenzt.

Wie können gesellschaftliche, und ökologische Entwicklungen rechtzeiting in die Unternehmensstrategie integriert werden? Unternehmen beschäftigen sich intensiv mit entsprechenden Fragestellunge.

Pour lutter contre les prélèvements sauvages dans les océans, Unilever et le WWF ont lancé un label pêche durable, le MSC. Mais celui-ci peine à s'imposer à l'échelle mondiale.

Vielen gelten Programme zur sozialen Verantwortung und zur Nachhaltigkeit nur als Feigenblätter für die Unternehmen. Eine Studie zeigt nun, dass zwar die Manager der Firmen wenig tun, aber auch die...

No regulation could probably have prevented the recent catastrophes at Enron, Ahold and Parmalat: and, by the same token, you will never fully know what is going on at your subsidiaries. However, i...

The emphasis for companies today may be on maximising value for shareholders but the old issue of responding to other stakeholders in an organisation has not gone away. Indeed, it may even be on th...

Environmental management now cuts across all functions of a company, and has to be ingrained into processes and routines. Production is the classical area of environmental regulation, with the emph...