Investigating the resources for Integrated Management Systems within resource-based and contingency perspective in manufacturing firms

Savino, Matteo Mario; Batbaatar, Enkhjargal

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.04.115

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“…Findings from a survey among European shipping companies (Progoulaki 2008;Sadjadi and Perkins 2010) showed that there is some indication of an interest in adopting more progressive management practices for seafarers, but the evidence from these surveys indicate that it would be premature to argue that 'integrated HRM' is now being widely practised. The Integrated Management Systems in shipping are evolving to achieve total quality management (Tena, Llusar, and Puig 2001) and corporate social responsibility goals (Jørgensen, Remmen, and Mellado 2006;Savino and Batbaatar 2015); in this context, the management of multicultural crew is a crucial element (Pawlik, Gaffron, and Drewes 2012;Progoulaki 2015) to be further acknowledged in the future. Note 1.…”

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Managing culturally diverse maritime human resources as a shipping company’s core competency

Progoulaki

Theotokas

2016

Maritime Policy & Management

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The last few years a great body of research focused on the problems observed in the shipping industry due to the mix of different nationalities on board. Herein, the problem is observed in the managerial level, and specifically to the applied crew management strategies and the philosophy of the shipping companies regarding the issue of multiculturalism. The present paper seeks to elevate the value of human resources in shipping and to underline the potentials that human resource management and cultural diversity management have as a shipping company's core competency. In a triangulated theoretical framework, the combination of resource-based view, human resource management, and cultural diversity management leads to a framework of choices which include strategies for the management of maritime human resources' cultural diversity. The paper analyses the practical application of the proposed strategies and the fulfilment of the criteria required for turning crew management to a core competency and gaining sustainable competitive advantage from human resources.

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Managing culturally diverse maritime human resources as a shipping company’s core competency

Progoulaki

Theotokas

2016

Maritime Policy & Management

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“…Moreover, stakeholders are related to supply chain networks. Raw materials rely on green purchasing and suppliers' management (Savino & Batbaatar, 2015). In addition, Bonn and Fisher (2011) showed that CS is the missing ingredient in firms' strategies and that it must be considered in human capital development.…”

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Corporate sustainability performance improvement using an interrelationship hierarchical model approach

Tseng

Lim

2018

Bus Strat Env

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This study: (i) contributes to screening less important corporate sustainability attributes, (ii) proposes an interrelationship and hierarchical model based on the focal firm in the electronic industry's approach, and (iii) compares the performance and importance levels to identify performance improvement attributes. Prior studies neglected performance improvement with interrelationships and hierarchical structure analytical models built on multi‐attributes. Hence, this study proposes to integrate exploratory factor analysis to eliminate less important attributes, adopts a fuzzy synthetic method to address the hierarchical model, and the fuzzy synthetic and the decision‐making trial and evaluation laboratory methods to trace the attributes' importance and performance levels. The importance and performance level discrepancies indicated improvement. The social image, corporate culture and stakeholder management led to economic activities. The results indicate that top management support and manager attitude and behaviour are the drivers of corporate sustainability performance improvement.

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“…Resource limitations have also been underlined as impediments to integration. A resourcebased view would address these limitations and provide new insights within country specific contexts (Savino and Batbaatar, 2015).…”

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A qualitative study on integrated management systems in a non-leading country in certifications

Bernardo

Gotzamani

Vouzas

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Total Quality Management & Business Excellence

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The aim of this study is to analyze the integration of management systems in a country with low certifications number and growth rate and propose a research agenda towards improving the competitiveness of organizations that implement multiple management systems. The main research questions focuses on the implementation process itself and the effect of low level of national certification to the integration process. To serve this research purpose, an exploratory research is designed in Greece (a country with relatively low certification counts and rates to the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 management standards). A case study approach is employed to enable deeper and comprehensive reasoning. A cross-case analysis is presented to explore patterns, similarities and differences among organizations. Findings show that 4 out of 5 organizations analyzed are integrating its management systems at different levels, the integration methodology applied is similar for all organizations but audits are the most dissimilar aspect. This study is one of the first that addresses management systems' integration in Greece exploring contingency factors.Keywords: Audits, Greece, integration of management systems, ISO 9001, ISO 14001. IntroductionOver the past two decades, there was an enormous increase of management systems (MSs) standards certification, especially across Europe and Asia (see ISO, 2015). The most widespread Empirical research has focused mainly on the process of integration analyzing different aspects, including but not limited to the design and implementation of organization's integration strategy (Bernardo et al., 2012a;Mohannad et al., 2013), the integration methodology organizations use (Rebelo et al., 2014a(Rebelo et al., , 2014bGarengo and Biazzo, 2013;Kauppila et al., 2015), the current level of integration (Bernardo et al., 2009;Abad et al., 2014;Mezinska et al., 2015), and the integration of MSs' audits (Bernardo et al., 2010;Simon et al., 2014;Hoy and Foley, 2015). This research has been done, in majority, using surveys in those countries with a high level of certificates (Douglas and Glen, 2000;Bernardo et al., 2009;Abad et al., 2014; among others).Taking all the above into account, the purpose of this research is to shift focus to a country that is ranked moderately low in terms of MS certifications. To this end, Greece is selected as the 2 representative country being less advanced in terms of IMS research and ISO certifications compared to over-researched and high certification rated countries, such as Spain or UK. Five Greek case organizations are selected and analyzed qualitatively with respect to the main integration aspects, i.e., the integration strategy and methodology, the integration level and the integration of audits. Furthermore, IMS maintenance and evolution avenues are discussed and future research agenda is proposed to improve the competitiveness of the organizations via integrating their MSs. To better illustrate this research objectives the following research questions The "integration str...

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Investigating the resources for Integrated Management Systems within resource-based and contingency perspective in manufacturing firms

Cited by 65 publications

References 62 publications

Managing culturally diverse maritime human resources as a shipping company’s core competency

Managing culturally diverse maritime human resources as a shipping company’s core competency

Corporate sustainability performance improvement using an interrelationship hierarchical model approach

A qualitative study on integrated management systems in a non-leading country in certifications

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