Promoting Sustainability through EMS Application: A Survey Examining the Critical Factors about EMAS Registration in Italian Organizations

Merli, Roberto; Preziosi, Michele; Ippolito, C.

doi:10.3390/su8030197

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“…These unavoidable expenditures are widely discussed in the literature, for example, for EMAS [25,32,40] and ISO 14001 [34,37,[65][66][67][68]. Daddi et al [28] list a lack of financial resources as a factor that can lead to withdrawal from the EMAS system.…”

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“…Another important problem area is the individual employee (see [40] on EMAS or [68] on EMS). Their low level of knowledge and skills regarding environmental issues and possible negative attitudes towards a bureaucratic management system-which is introduced in a top-down approach and is not directly related to or even competes with their core business-can, according to our interviewees, cause problems at the beginning as well as during the implementation of EMAS.…”

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The Barriers for Voluntary Environmental Management Systems—The Case of EMAS in Hospitals

Seifert

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The adoption of formal environmental management systems (EMS) according to EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) represents a voluntary approach that aims to increase corporate environmental performance. Though EMAS can offer several advantages for organizations, registration numbers are falling. In the hospital sector, the dissemination of EMAS is low. The question arises as to what hinders hospitals when planning, implementing, and maintaining such voluntary environmental management initiatives. The results from interviews with environmental managers in EMAS registered hospitals reveal problems such as high initial effort for creation of the required documents, or lacking knowledge and staff awareness. The barriers are presented in a model synthesizing the problems chronologically on the organizational, group, and individual level. The challenges for the adoption of EMAS as a voluntary environmental management approach in hospitals are discussed. This paper contributes by creating an understanding of the barriers organizations might face when implementing an EMS. Thus, measures to actively manage and overcome barriers can be developed by organizations, consultants, reviewers, policy makers, and researchers.

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The Barriers for Voluntary Environmental Management Systems—The Case of EMAS in Hospitals

Seifert

2018

Sustainability

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“…Several authors have studied the dynamics and barriers in EMAS adoption while only few studies focused on EMAS drop out factors.. Barriers can be classified in internal, if are referred to internal dynamics within organizations; or in external, if they are related to external aspects with respect to companies (Merli et al, 2016;Hillary, 2004). Typical internal barriers include for example lack of internal resources as human and/or financial, while external barriers refer to constraints about institutional frameworks, aspects related to the market or to the customers.…”

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Analysing the causes of environmental management and audit scheme (EMAS) decrease in Europe

Daddi

Giacomo

Frey

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Environmental Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is the most important public standard for Environmental Management System. In the last few years the number of certified organisations has been decreasing. Scholars have largely debated on the drivers, barriers, and benefits of, but the recent decrease in EMAS registrations has not been sufficiently studied, leaving unsolved questions for scholars, practitioners and policy makers. This paper aims to address this literature gap by i) analysing the trends of other voluntary certification schemes in order to understand whether the decrease is a peculiarity of EMAS; ii) investigating the reasons why formerly registered organisations have abandoned EMAS and why ISO14001 certified organisations do not adopt EMAS. The paper reports results of 17 interviews highlighting the lack of financial and human resources, the lack of market and stakeholder recognition, and the unclear added value of EMAS as reasons for the decrease of EMAS.

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“…Merli et al conducted an extensive study [8], based on a large survey (nearly 562 valid questionnaires were collected in Italy), which analyzed the motivations, main difficulties, and results (in terms of environmental and financial performance) of the implementation of a formal management system based on Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). Tourais and Videira also analyzed [9], through a literature review of 80 papers, the motives and benefits that drive organizations to adopt the EMAS.…”

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Reasons to Adopt ISO 50001 Energy Management System

Marimón

2017

Sustainability

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Purpose:The main aim of this paper is to analyze the relationships between the corporate motivations that lead organizations to establish the ISO 50001 Energy Management System (EnMS) standard, and the difficulties and benefits derived from its adoption. Design/methodology/approach: Three independent exploratory factor analyses (EFA) were conducted in order to identify (i) sources of motivation: social requirements, ecology drivers, and competitive advantage; (ii) the difficulties of an ISO 50001 adoption: operational difficulties and organizational difficulty; and (iii) types of benefits: ecological benefits and operational benefits. In a second step, an exploratory path analysis, performed through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), was used to analyze the relations among motivation, difficulties, and benefits related to the adoption of the ISO 50001 standard. Findings: Social requirements explain operational difficulties, which in turn impacts on operational benefits. Ecology drivers are directly related to ecological benefits. Organizational difficulties have an inverse relationship with operational and ecological benefits. Operational difficulties are related to operational benefits and ecological benefits. Research limitations/implications: The questionnaire was disseminated to 87 Spanish companies with ISO 50001 certification. Managers and other practitioners such as consultants, auditing companies, and official organizations in charge of developing standards might find useful implications. Originality/value: The standard was published in 2011 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). This paper contributes to assessment of the benefits of the standard by collecting information directly from the pioneer organizations that have adopted it, and provides clues on how to implement the standard and improve it in future.

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Promoting Sustainability through EMS Application: A Survey Examining the Critical Factors about EMAS Registration in Italian Organizations

Cited by 32 publications

References 51 publications

The Barriers for Voluntary Environmental Management Systems—The Case of EMAS in Hospitals

The Barriers for Voluntary Environmental Management Systems—The Case of EMAS in Hospitals

Analysing the causes of environmental management and audit scheme (EMAS) decrease in Europe

Reasons to Adopt ISO 50001 Energy Management System

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