International Diffusion of Iso 14000 Certification

Corbett, Charles J.; Kirsch, David A.

doi:10.1111/j.1937-5956.2001.tb00378.x

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“…Several empirical studies have confirmed the significant role played by exports in firms' decisions to adopt environmental standards (Corbett & Kirsch, 2001;Delmas & Montiel, 2009;Grolleau, Mzoughi, & Pekovic, 2007). Furthermore, export-oriented firms tend to have higher labor productivity in order to compete internationally (Zwick, 2004).…”

Section: Exportmentioning

confidence: 95%

Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

2012

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Summary In the last decade, a rising number of firms have adopted voluntary international environmental management and product standards, such as the international ISO 14001 management standard or organic certification. Although emerging research analyzes the impact of these standards on environmental and financial performance, there is to our knowledge no empirical research on how they affect the productivity of employees. In this paper, we investigate the direct relationship between environmental standards and labor productivity, as well as two mediating mechanisms through which environmental standards influence labor productivity: employee training and enhanced interpersonal contacts within the firm. Our empirical results, based on a French employer–employee survey from 5220 firms, reveal that firms that have adopted environmental standards enjoy a one standard deviation higher labor productivity than firms that have not adopted such standards. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Exportmentioning

confidence: 95%

Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

2012

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“…More specifically, several case studies of ISO 14001 certified companies have shown that implementation of the standard has helped reduce environmental impacts, including the volume of waste generated, water and energy consumption, and atmospheric emissions (Chattopadhyay, 2001;Fielding, 1999). Other studies have emphasized the beneficial effects of the standard on technological innovation, improvements in safety procedures and decreases in the risk of environmental mishaps (Hanna et al, 2000;Shin and Chen, 2000), decrease in the use of raw materials, energy, and costs (Chattopadhyay, 2001;Fielding, 1999;González-Benito and González-Benito, 2005;Shin and Chen, 2000), and improvements in the image of organizations, competitive edge, and response to customer expectations (Corbett and Kirsch, 2001;Goh Eng et al, 2006;Melnyk et al, 2003;Potoski and Prakash, 2005;Pun and Hui, 2001). …”

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“…Some of these studies showed that the environmental performance of certified organizations did not exceed that of uncertified organizations, or that the standard implementation resulted in very limited benefits (Barla, 2007;Welch et al, 2003). Other studies showed that certification served primarily as a means to improve company image, respond to stakeholder pressures and bolster the trust of exchange partners (Corbett and Kirsch, 2001;Goh Eng et al, 2006;Jiang and Bansal, 2003;King et al, 2005). This search for institutional legitimacy through ISO certification seems often to be disconnected from the search for environmental performance (Boiral, 2003(Boiral, , 2007Jiang and Bansal, 2003), although this hypothesis remains to be validated.…”

Section: The Legitimacy-based Model: a Managerial Fashion To Conform mentioning

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Modelling the impact of ISO 14001 on environmental performance: A comparative approach

Boiral

Henri

2012

Journal of Environmental Management

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Studies analyzing the effects of ISO 14001 certification and determinants of environmental performance tend to be based on a traditional and instrumental model of efficiency. Using structural equation modelling developed through a survey of 303 organizations, this paper compares the validity of this instrumental model with two alternatives models: the legitimacybased model and the hybrid model. The findings question the efficiency of ISO 14001 and show that the traditional model does not explain the environmental performance of the surveyed organizations. Study results show that the legitimacy-based model, which questions the efficiency of ISO 14001 certification, is more pertinent in explaining the environmental performance but leads to a rather critical view of management practices. The development of a hybrid model based on the principal hypotheses of the legitimacy-based model, but integrating certain managerial and operational practices distinct from ISO 14001 certification, results in a less critical and more pertinent view of the determinants of environmental performance. Study results suggest that this hybrid model provides the best data fit.

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“…Understanding variations in the uptake of CR standards -both across time and space -has spawned a quantitative research literature, which has sought to explain geographic unevenness in terms of spatio-temporal diffusion processes (Albuquerque et al, 2007;Corbett and Kirsch, 2001;Delmas and Montiel, 2008;Neumayer and Perkins, 2004;Potoski and Prakash, 2004;Potoski, 2006, 2007). Our large-N, econometric contribution in the present article advances on this previous work in three important areas.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Geographic Variations in the Early Diffusion of Corporate Voluntary Standards: Comparing ISO 14001 and the Global Compact

2010

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Despite their availability to firms across the world, uptake of global voluntary standards has proceeded unevenly across countries over time. In this article, we seek to provide new insights into how geography shapes these spatio-temporal variations, focusing on two leading examples of codified voluntarism: ISO14001 and the Global Compact (GC).Advancing on previous quantitative studies, which have analyzed domestic and nondomestic influences separately, we examine how the internal attributes of place "condition" the influence of transnational spatial interdependencies. We find that higher levels of ISO14001 certification in other economies are more likely to spillover (via transnational linkages) into higher domestic uptake of the standard in wealthier economies, while domestic receptivity to the influence of higher GC adoptions abroad is greater in more democratic countries. Another important advance on previous studies is that we examine the influence of a larger number of measures of transnational economic linkage. Providing evidence of "trading-up" and "investing-up" dynamics, we show that higher densities of ISO14001 certificates and GC participants in a country's export and inward FDI partners is associated with higher levels of domestic uptake of the respective standard. We also find tentative evidence of "visiting-up" dynamics associated with the cross-border movement of businesspeople.2

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International Diffusion of Iso 14000 Certification

Cited by 353 publications

References 17 publications

Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

Modelling the impact of ISO 14001 on environmental performance: A comparative approach

Geographic Variations in the Early Diffusion of Corporate Voluntary Standards: Comparing ISO 14001 and the Global Compact

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