I draw upon the dynamic capability model to explore how new process standards influence the ability of manufacturing facilities to improve environmental performance by reducing toxic emissions. The process standards studied are the ISO 14001 environmental management standards, in use since 1996. Hypotheses are developed to account for how early adoption of ISO 14001 and experience with the stan...

GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) is an umbrella acronym covering the three disciplines of governance, risk management and compliance. The main challenge behind this concept is the integration of these three areas, generally dealt with in silos. At the IT level (IT GRC), some research works have been proposed towards integration. However, the sources used for the construction of the resulti...

Since 2005, the international organization for standardization (ISO) has published a wealth of standards and reports that deal with requirements engineering for systems. ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 defines a standard vocabulary for systems and software engineering. ISO/IEC 24766 defines requirements for requirements engineering tools. ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 describes processes for requirements engineering. ...

It is crucial for corporations operating in a multinational economy to have a seamless understanding of the security process. For information assurance, ISO 15408:1999 (i.e. Common Criteria) and ISO 17799:2000 are the key standards, both of which are needed for implementing a global approach to security. They provide a definition of the necessary elements of the process as well as the basis for...

The National Association for Industry-Education Cooperation (NAIEC) creates an approach for school system improvement that combines the necessary standards for achieving mileposts of the Baldrige Quality Criteria and the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) 9000 Standards for Education. Together, the Baldrige Criteria and ISO Standards meet the requirements for developing a high-...