ISO 14001 and international trade

INTERNATIONAL Globalization and ISO 14001 trading up or trading down ?

1) This article is an abridged version of “ Racing to the Bottom ? Trade, Environmental Governance, and ISO 14001”, American Journal of Political Science, 2006, 50(2), pp. 347-361. The authors gratefully acknowledge the permission of Blackwell Publishing. For the unabridged version, including a description of the methodology used by the authors in their research, see : http://faculty.washington...

Racing to the Bottom ? Trade , Environmental Governance , and ISO 14001 Aseem

Globalization critics argue that international trade spurs a race to the bottom among national environmental standards. ISO 14001 is the most widely adopted voluntary environmental regulation which encourages firms to take environmental action beyond what domestic government regulations require. Drawing on a panel study of 108 countries over seven years, we investigate conditions under which tr...

The Diffusion of Voluntary International Management Standards: Responsible Care, ISO 9000, and ISO 14001 in the Chemical Industry

This article analyzes the factors that explain the international diffusion of voluntary international management standards. We argue that international management standards should not be analyzed in isolation but in conjunction with other standards and their institutional environment. We present two opposite views explaining how the previous diffusion of management standards facilitates or hamp...

The influence of motivations for seeking ISO 14001 certification: an empirical study of ISO 14001 certified facilities in Hong Kong.

This study proposes a model linking firm motivations for seeking ISO 14001 certification to the effectiveness of three major components of an environmental management system (EMS)--environmental policy, the assessment of environmental aspect and impacts, and management review. The relationship of these EMS components with a self-reported measure of environmental performance is also examined. Fr...

Diffusion of ISO 9000 standards and international trade