Environmental awareness for the sake of ecosystem sustainability is proven to have a positive influence on development various forms management in fields. In operations management, an environmental system standard has even emerged, which helps organizations manage their business activities while taking into account aspects and impact environment, known as ISO 14001. For Human Resource Managemen...

This paper addresses the issue of what potential merits ISO 14001 environmental management systems (EMS) may have to business operations and public policy. It evaluates the EMS structure and applies it to a study that examines approximately eighteen U.S. facilities and government facilities that are designing and implementing ISO 14001-based EMSs. Facilities’ specific EMS components are assesse...

Local authorities are showing an increasing interest in implementing Environmental Management Systems (EMS) according to ISO 14001/EMAS as a tool for better dealing with their environmental issues. However, to improve the status of an environmental component or the efficiency of an environmental service often exceeds the boundaries and the competences of a single municipality; furthermore EMS i...

Debates about the efficacy of private environmental regimes have been fueled by disparate research findings, such as when the same regime that has been effective in one setting is found to be ineffective in another. In this article, we show that the efficacy of ISO 14001, the most widely adopted voluntary environmental regime in the world, is conditioned by the stringency of countries’ domestic...