This research aimed to find out the determining factors for ISO 14001 EMS implementation among SMEs in Malaysia from the Resource based view. A cross-sectional approach using survey was conducted. A research model been proposed which comprises of ISO 14001 EMS implementation as the criterion variable while physical capital resources (i.e. environmental performance tracking and organizational in...

Article history: Received 16 January 2013 Received in revised form 17 November 2014 Accepted 18 November 2014 Available online 24 November 2014 This paper investigates the impacts of ISO 14001 adoption on the performance of firms using a sample of Chinese firms. The results show that adopting ISO 14001 has insignificant impacts on the financial performance of Chinese firms. A further investigat...

Using Japanese facility-level data,we estimate the effects of ISO 14001 certification on the promotion of more advanced practices, namely green supply chainmanagement (GSCM). Our results show that ISO 14001 promotes GSCMpractices. Facilities with environmental management systems (EMS) certified to ISO 14001 are 40% more likely to assess their suppliers’ environmental performance and 50%more lik...

Since 1996 hundreds of U.S. facilities have certified their environmental management systems (EMS) to ISO 14001. While EMS certification occurs at the facility level, little is known about how parent companies influence facility-level certification, and even less is known about what factors are more influential to the corporatelevel decisions than others. This study begins to understand these i...

This paper assesses the level of interest, awareness, and adoption of ISO 14001 and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification schemes among logging companies in Cameroon. Eleven logging companies located in Douala in the Littoral Region of Cameroon were assessed through a structured interview using an administered questionnaire which was mostly analyzed qualitatively thereafter. The findin...