Which Types of Environmental Management Systems Are Related to Greater Environmental Improvements?

Darnall, Nicole; Kim, Younsung

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02503.x

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“…Kollmuss et al (2008), cited in Dhanda and Hartman (2011), include third-party verification as a requirement for carbon offset standards to be credible. Various studies have demonstrated that voluntary programs deliver better results if they involve external monitoring: Potoski and Prakash (2005) and Darnall and Kim (2012) in the context of ISO 14001 certification, Graffin and Ward (2010) in the context of Baseball Hall of Fame, or Behnam and MacLean (2011) for international accountability standards. Conversely, King and Lenox (2000) demonstrate that industry programs without external monitoring fail to improve facilities' environmental performance.…”

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Governance of Eco-Labels: Expert Opinion and Media Coverage

Castka

Corbett

2014

J Bus Ethics

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Eco-labels'' are an increasingly important form of private regulation for sustainability in areas such as carbon emissions, water consumption, ethical sourcing, or organic produce. The growing interest and popularity of eco-labels has also been coupled with growing concerns about their credibility, in part because the standard-setting and conformity assessment practices that eco-labels adopt exhibit striking differences. In this paper, we assess which assurance practices contribute to eco-labels being perceived as better governed, in the eyes of experts as well as the media. Unlike previous studies, which are mostly conceptual, qualitative, or focused on one or few eco-labels, we study a large set of eco-labels, combining data from three different sources. Our findings suggest that experts and media are primarily concerned about ''re-assurance'' practices, looking for one or preferably multiple layers of ''re-assurance'' that independent parties are overseeing the eco-label and the firms certified under it.

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Governance of Eco-Labels: Expert Opinion and Media Coverage

Castka

Corbett

2014

J Bus Ethics

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“…The promise of voluntary regulations will be realized only if they impose stringent obligations that compel participants to closely and carefully examine their internal process and systems. There is some evidence that programs requiring participants to adopt more extensive, specific, and demanding environmental management systems show higher levels of environmental improvements (Anton, Deltas, and Khanna ; Darnall and Kim ). Furthermore, some programs (such as the European Union's Eco‐Management and Audit Scheme) require that participants document continual improvements in environmental performance, which creates pressure on firms to find ways to reduce resource waste and to innovate.…”

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Voluntary Regulations and Innovation: The Case of ISO 14001

Lim

Prakash

2014

Public Administration Review

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Governments enact environmental regulations to compel firms to internalize pollution externalities. Critics contend that regulations encourage technological lock‐ins and stifle innovation. Challenging this view, the Porter‐Linde hypothesis suggests that appropriately designed regulations can spur innovation because (1) pollution reflects resource waste; (2) regulations focus firms’ attention on waste; and (3) with regulation‐induced focus, firms are incentivized to innovate to reduce waste. This article explores the regulation–innovation linkage in the context of voluntary regulations. The authors focus on ISO 14001, the most widely adopted voluntary environmental program in the world. Examining a panel of 79 countries for the period 1996–2009, they find that country‐level ISO 14001 participation is a significant predictor of a country's environmental patent applications, a standard proxy for innovation activity. The policy implication is that public managers should consider voluntary regulation's second‐order effects on innovation, beyond their first‐order effects on pollution and regulatory compliance.

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“…However, prior studies assessing the environmental performance benefits of EMSs (e.g. Darnall and Kim, ; García‐Rodríguez et al , ; Potoski and Prakash, ) have not distinguished between EMS only adopters and facilities that adopt both QMS and EMS . They also have not made distinctions between lower‐ and higher‐order sustainability activities and how the implementation of one over the other might differ for facilities that have QMSs in place.…”

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Two are Better Than One: The Link Between Management Systems and Business Performance

Ferrón‐Vílchez

Darnall

2014

Bus Strat Env

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Little is known about the complementary performance benefits associated with facilities’ combined use of both quality management systems (QMSs) and environmental management systems (EMSs), and how these performance benefits might differ from those associated with facilities’ use of only one of these management systems (or neither). We suggest that complementarities arise because each management system fosters the development of internal capabilities that facilitates the adoption and routine operationalization of the other, while maintaining differentiated goals that enhance strategic value. We examine these relationships using a sample of 2619 manufacturing facilities operating within six OECD countries, while controlling for self‐selection issues. Our findings support the idea of complementarity, in that facilities that adopt both QMS and EMS are more associated with positive business performance than facilities that adopt either a QMS or an EMS on its own, or no management system. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Which Types of Environmental Management Systems Are Related to Greater Environmental Improvements?

Cited by 69 publications

References 41 publications

Governance of Eco-Labels: Expert Opinion and Media Coverage

Governance of Eco-Labels: Expert Opinion and Media Coverage

Voluntary Regulations and Innovation: The Case of ISO 14001

Two are Better Than One: The Link Between Management Systems and Business Performance

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