Quality management, environmental management and firm performance: a review of empirical studies and issues of integration

June
2009
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Journal compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and British Academy of Management
González-Benito and González-
Benito (2005)
27 environmental management practices planning and organizational (7), operational
(4 product-related and
12 process-related), and communicational (4)
ROA (objective)
Environmental management can bring about competitive opportunities for companies, although some environmental practices produce negative effects.
Menguc and
Ozanne (Higher order construct of natural environment orientation
(NEO): entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility and commitment to the natural environment
Market share sales growth over the last 2 years and profit after tax (objective performance measures)
NEO is positively and significantly related to profit after tax and market share but is negatively related to sales growth.
Wagner (2005)
Input-oriented (index integrating total energy input and total water input) and output-oriented (index integrating SO NO
x and COD emissions) environmental performance
ROCE, ROE and ROSA largely negative relationship is found between the output-based index of environmental performance and FP. For the input-based index, the relationship is generally non-significant.
Link and
Naveh (ISO 14001 rules, policies and procedures
Emission of pollutions, use of recycled materials and other environmental aspects
Gross profit margin
The higher the standardization in managing organizational environmental issues among ISO
14001 certified organizations, the better the environmental performance will be.
Environmental performance does not influence business performance.
Study
EM variables
EP variables
FP variables
Major findings

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