What drives agrifood firms to register for an Environmental Management System?

Grolleau, Gilles; Mzoughi, Naoufel; Thomas, Alban

doi:10.1093/erae/jbm012

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“…Proposition 2 also suggests that a standardized EMS is more likely to be voluntarily adopted by well established firms that are subject to a lower level of uncertainty (as measured by ρ). In several empirical studies, such as those by Nakamura et al (2001), Bansal and Bogner (2002), Grolleau et al (2007) and Blackman and Guerrero (2011), it has also been reported that there is a positive correlation between size (as proxied by BAU emissions) and S-adoption. Our results are also consistent with this result although it is fair to acknowledge that, in our model, this positive relationship between the size of firms and their tendency to adopt a standardized EMS arises once we assume that the planner behaves optimally when designing the environmental policy.…”

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Standardized Environmental Management Systems as an Internal Management Tool

Alonso-Paulí

André

2012

SSRN Journal

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In a principal-agent model we analyze the firm's decision to adopt an informal or a standardized Environmental Management System (EMS). Our results are consistent with empirical evidence in several respects. A standardized EMS increases the internal control at the cost of introducing some degree of rigidity that entails an endogenous setup cost. Standardized systems are more prone to be adopted by big and well established firms and under tougher environmental policies. Firms with standardized EMS tend to devote more effort to abatement although this effort results in lower pollution only if public incentives are strong enough, suggesting a complementarity relationship between standardized EMS and public policies. Emission charges have both a marginal effect on abatement and a qualitative effect on the adoption decision that may induce a conflict between private and public interests. As a result of the combination of these two effects it can be optimal for the government to distort the tax in a specific way in order to push the firm to choose the socially optimal EMS. The introduction of standardized systems can result in win-win situations where firms, society and the environment get better off. decision that may induce a conflict between private and public interests. As a result of the combination of these two effects it can be optimal for the government to distort the tax in a specific way in order to push the firm to choose the socially optimal EMS. The introduction of standardized systems can result in win-win situations where firms, society and the environment get better off.

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Standardized Environmental Management Systems as an Internal Management Tool

Alonso-Paulí

André

2012

SSRN Journal

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“…Some of the research continues to show than non-economic factors can drive the use of these voluntary instruments more strongly than economic incentives [24].…”

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The Potential of an Environmentally Friendly Business Strategy — Research from the Czech Republic

Krause

2015

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

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This article deals with the importance of environmental factors for business strategy. It discusses the potential benefits to companies which show concern for the environment beyond their legal obligations.The main contribution of this article is in presentation of the results of a questionnaire survey concerning customer views on products certified as 'environmentally friendly'. The knowledge of the respondents concerning individual instruments was not great. Most of the respondents were unwilling to pay more than 20% more for environmentally friendly products in comparison with conventional products. Only 38% of the respondents bought environmentally friendly products repeatedly.

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“…13 These sets of firm and worker characteristics are usually used in the literature respectively as the determinants of the decision to adopt environmental-related standards (Grolleau et al, 2007b) and individuals' attitudes towards environmental-related issues (Torgler and Garcia-Valinas, 2007). 14 Considering the suspicion of colinearity between the job characteristics and the indicators of work organization, Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated and showed no evidence of partial correlation.…”

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How green is my firm? Workers' attitudes and behaviors towards job in environmentally-related firms

Lanfranchi¹,

Peković²

2014

Ecological Economics

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Abstract. The implementation of environmental standards can be facilitated by motivating workers with pro-social preferences. Therefore, we study if employees working for firms achieving registration for environmental-related standards are more likely to display positive attitudes toward their job, to be actively involved in their jobs and to donate effort. Using a French matched employer-employee database, we find that these "green employees" report a significantly higher perception of usefulness and equitable recognition at work. Besides, they are more likely to work uncompensated overtime hours. Finally, if the adoption of environmental standards is shown to have no direct influence on job involvement, we expose how it indirectly impacts job involvement through the mediation of employees' reported perception of usefulness and equitable recognition at work.

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What drives agrifood firms to register for an Environmental Management System?

Cited by 53 publications

References 28 publications

Standardized Environmental Management Systems as an Internal Management Tool

Standardized Environmental Management Systems as an Internal Management Tool

The Potential of an Environmentally Friendly Business Strategy — Research from the Czech Republic

How green is my firm? Workers' attitudes and behaviors towards job in environmentally-related firms

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