Research background: Environmental management systems (EMS) is an international standard of best practices for managing impacts on the natural environment. The came into effect in 1996. EMS reviews environmental aspects and sets goals targets them. based continuous development (Plan - Do Check – Act). It one voluntary instruments, as obligation to introduce not contained any legal regulation. m...

The environmental aspect like oil depletion, global heating and CO2 gas emissions have become a concern and have propelled the development of an efficient and extendable energy management system (EMS) using fuel cell and battery sources for Hybrid Electric Vehicles. In this paper, a poser of a hybrid electric vehicle with energy management system with multiple source of energy is developed and ...

This paper provides a critical analysis of the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) deployed at Tecnosol Comércio e Serviços Ltda., partner of Holdercim Brasil S.A, a cement group. The main activity of Tecnosol is co-processing industrial waste in the synthesis kiln at the Alvorada cement plant, in the municipality of Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The purpose of co-processing in...

The need and ability of an organisation to manage and control its impact on the environment has been hotly debated in recent times. However, the uptake of certificated environmental management systems (EMS), specifically BS EN ISO 14001 (ISO 14001) (British Standards Institution, 2004), is becoming more prevalent, even though evidence of the individual benefits is less clear. Furthermore, repor...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Stakeholders Opportunism Environmental imbalance Environmental management systems ISO 14001 EMAS This paper sets out to explain how the implementation of an environmental management systems (EMS) conditions the way firms respond to environmental pressures exerted by their stakeholders. While the most common approaches to be found in the literature consider the ce...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for environmental management system (EMS) adoption which can be used by managers to enable them to achieve a faster, smoother, effective and sustainable EMS implementation. This is termed by the authors as “successful” EMS implementation. Design/methodology/approach – The framework presented is based on an extensive field study condu...

The paper broadens the scope of environmental management system (EMS) research by describing how EMSs can contribute to inertia in present production systems. In conjunction with other factors this inertia can inhibit dramatic shifts toward more sustainable technologies and systems. Our approach builds upon technological lockin theory, which focuses on market coordination and technological inte...

In China, more firms in the textile and apparel industry adopt environmental management systems compared to firms that manufacture other products. It is important to know how the firms’ financial and real performances are affected. We study the changes of firms’ performance in profitability, sales, and operational efficiency after environmental management system (EMS) adoption using an event st...