Stakeholders pressure, SMEs characteristics and environmental management in Ghana

Promoting Environmental Management in Dutch Smes

An Analysis of Environmental Management and Sustainability in SMEs

Environmental sustainability in manufacturing sector has been allocated a major consideration in the international literature. Due to growing concerns over the high effect of SMEs on world manufacturing industries and their high contribution to pollution; this research attempts to focus on the key parameters that interact in the application of environmental management system, taking into accoun...

Stakeholders and Environmental Management Practices: an Institutional Framework

Despite burgeoning research on companies’ environmental strategies and environmental management practices, it remains unclear why some firms adopt environmental management practices beyond regulatory compliance. This paper leverages institutional theory by proposing that stakeholders – including governments, regulators, customers, competitors, community and environmental interest groups, and in...

Institutional Pressure and Environmental Management

When integrated with key organizational characteristics, institutional theory can yield new insights to understand differences between firms’ strategies. We propose that a company’s functional organization and internal power structure influence its facility managers’ sensitivity to and interpretation of institutional pressures. Combining over 500 responses from an original survey with existing ...

Environmental management system implementation by SMEs: EU experience and perspectives

An ever-increasing number of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are gaining interest in environmental management systems (EMS). Today, eco-management standards are beginning to spread through the unbounded universe of medium, small and very small enterprises, which represent more than 80% of the total number of enterprises operating in Europe and are the true backbone of its industrial system....