How environmental management driving forces affect environmental and economic performance of SMEs: a study in the Northern China district

Zeng, Saixing; Meng, Xiaohua; Zeng, Ruochen; Tam, C. M.; Tam, Vivian W.Y.; Tan, Jin

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.05.002

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“…The rigor of the regulations and firms' perceptions of the stringency of the regulations will determine the extent to which companies actually implement environmental protection practices [1,42]. Moreover, the degree to which the government supports/enforces the regulations has a significant impact on companies' environmental policies [48,49], making this an important task to investigate. Therefore, we propose hypothesis 2:…”

Section: Governmental Pressuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More and more customers now have strong concerns about the environment and prefer to purchase environmentally friendly products [54][55][56]. Customers may refuse to buy products that damage the environment, which encourages companies to create green products [1,49,57]. Furthermore, customer experience with the company's product or interacting with the company's services affects word of mouth and the company's branding and image.…”

Section: Customer Pressurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Governmental pressure was measured with four items drawn from two previous studies [1,49]. These items measured the stringency of government regulations and the degree to which future regulation and its effects on business could be predicted.…”

Section: Governmental Pressure (Gov)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effects of Green Innovation on Environmental and Corporate Performance: A Stakeholder Perspective

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"Going green" has become an important environmental issue in contemporary business practice worldwide. This study examined the influence of a number of factors on green innovation and the consequences in terms of performance. The stakeholder theory was adopted to observe the effects of each stakeholder on the green innovation practices of companies and to determine how green innovation practices influence environmental and business performance. A research model with eight hypotheses was proposed to determine the associations between the variables of interest. An empirical survey was conducted of 202 Taiwanese service and manufacturing companies. The survey found that pressure from competitors and the government, along with employee conduct, all had significant and positive effects on green innovation practices. Additionally, a moderating effect of innovation orientation existed only in the relationship between green product innovation practices and employee conduct. This study not only provides a systematic way to analyze the effects of green innovation practices but also suggests the best means for companies to adopt green innovation practices.

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Effects of Green Innovation on Environmental and Corporate Performance: A Stakeholder Perspective

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“…However, few alternatives to PC and PP such as contamination control and prevention (Zeng et al, 2011), environmental practices (Zhu and Sarkis, 2004), and innovation of PP technologies (Christmann, 2000) do exist. In absence of a unified scale to measure ETP, this research adapted 9 items based on Klassen (2000), and Klassen and Whybark (1999b) to measure PP and PC activities.…”

Section: Environmental Technology Portfoliomentioning

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Environmental management practices, environmental technology portfolio, and environmental commitment: A content analytic approach for UK manufacturing firms

Nath

Ramanathan

2016

International Journal of Production Economics

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This study investigates how various aspects of environmental management practices EMPs (operational, strategic, and tactical) undertaken by firms influence their environmental technology portfolios ETPs (pollution control and pollution prevention). It also explores the role of environmental commitment of firms on the influence of EMPs on ETPs. This study uses data from content analysis of annual reports, and corporate social responsibility reports available from corporate websites of 76 UK manufacturing firms from eight different industrial sectors across two years using a time lag (2010)(2011)(2012). We have controlled for industry type, economic performance and firm size in all our analyses. The findings of our study show that operational and tactical practices influence both the ETPs significantly but strategic practices influence only pollution prevention activities of firms. Further, we have found that environmental commitment positively moderates the influence of operational and tactical practices on pollution prevention but not on pollution control activities. There is no such moderating role on the influence of strategic practices on either pollution prevention or pollution control. Our finding generally highlight the short-term pollution control view; manufacturers focus on cost saving, operational efficiency, and being compliant with the environmental regulations rather than having a long-term strategy perspective. The use of strategic practices tends to have stronger influence on long-term pollution prevention activities. Once firms improve their level of environmental commitment, their involvement in long-term pollution prevention activities improve.

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“…Improving environmental performance not only protects the natural environment but also prevents rapid repletion of natural resources. Environmentally conscious gearbox manufacturing may help to improve economic performance and achieve competitive advantage with increased customer satisfaction [16][17][18].…”

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An explorative study to enable environmentally conscious manufacturing for an industrial gearbox manufacturing organization

2014

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-In recent years, environmentally conscious manufacturing (ECM) has become an important aspect and proactive approach for majority of the manufacturing organizations in India. The reason is that ECM not only helps to produce environment friendly, but also helps to make money by reducing cost or achieving competitive advantage. Industrial gearbox manufacturing organizations have significant environmental impacts as industrial gearbox manufacturing involves several steps which use valuable resources and pollute the environment. Hence, this paper presents an explorative environmental study of an Indian industrial gearbox manufacturing organization. The objective of the current paper is (i) to identify the environmental problems and environmentally conscious manufacturing indicators (ECMI), (ii) to find out the root causes of these problems and (iii) to solve the root causes based on the available stateof-the-art literature. This research work not only reviews the efficient environment friendly manufacturing techniques, but also helps the organization to become eco-efficient by producing environment friendly while making money. First ECMIs selected from literature review, are validated through process mapping. Then these indicators are prioritized using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to find out the critical environmentally conscious manufacturing indicators (CECMI). The sources of CECMIs are identified using either data envelopment analysis (DEA) or direct observation of the available database. Finally, some possible solutions are also addressed in this paper.

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How environmental management driving forces affect environmental and economic performance of SMEs: a study in the Northern China district

Cited by 131 publications

References 67 publications

Effects of Green Innovation on Environmental and Corporate Performance: A Stakeholder Perspective

Effects of Green Innovation on Environmental and Corporate Performance: A Stakeholder Perspective

Environmental management practices, environmental technology portfolio, and environmental commitment: A content analytic approach for UK manufacturing firms

An explorative study to enable environmentally conscious manufacturing for an industrial gearbox manufacturing organization

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