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Macau Periodical Index (澳門期刊論文索引)
- Author
- Neergaard, Peter; GrØnholdt, Lars; Martensen, Anne
- Title
- Modelling drivers of excellent environmental management
- Journal Name
- Euro Asia Journal of Management
- Pub. Info
- Jun. 2003, Vol.13, No.1, pp. 75-85
- Abstract
- Abstract : Increasing stakeholder demands have resulted in environmental management becoming an important topic in management. But how do companies achieve significant improvements in thier environmental management? This paper tries to identify and analyse factors that are crucial to achieve success in environmental management. A literature review provides a number of hypotheses for factors explaining environmental results. Some factors relate to the initiation of the environmental work. Other factors relate to managing environment in day-to-day business. A number of hypotheses are developed concerning the imporatance of each factor and they are tested in and empirical study. The empirical study consists of a survey based on answers from 199 Danish companies. The hypotheses are tested by logistic regression. The results show that the theoretical guidelines are followed and furthermore pave the way for achieving excellent results. Implications for improving environmental management and directions for future research are discusssed. Paragraph Headings: 1. Background 2. Analytical framework and hypotheses 2.1. Intiation of environmental management 2.2. Environmental management systems(EMS) 3. Method 4. Modelling and results 5. Summary and discussion Tables: 1. Relative contribution for achieving environmental excellent Figures: 1. Factors leading to excellent? 2. Types of results achieved by environmentally excellent companies compared with results achieved by non-excellent companies. Order to priority. Multiple answers. All are significant(p-values are 0.000) 2.1. Comparison of results achieved so far