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Reporting on Sustainability Standards in Australia: Focus on ISO 14001

Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 2012
There is a worldwide demand for companies to report on their environmental engagement. This study aimed to gain understanding in the differences between IS014001 certified and ISO 14001 non-certified companies with regard to their environmental reporting.
Naudé, Marita, Quaddus, Mohammed, Rowe, Anna, Nowak, Margaret   +3 more
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Mapping out ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and other management system standards

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 2011
In the last two decades, we have witnessed an acceleration of the process of standardisation with regard to business management. Standards which correspond to the standardisation of a very wide range of aspects of business activity, such as quality management (e.g. ISO 9001), environmental management (e.g.
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Strategic sustainable development using the ISO 14001 Standard

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2005
Abstract The ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard has become a wide-spread administrative tool in the field of corporate responses to sustainability. As a framework for the administering of sustainable development in firms, ISO 14001 in itself does not speak of strategic planning for sustainability, nor of upstream solutions of problems
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ISO 14001: Towards international quality environmental management standards for marine protected areas

Ocean & Coastal Management, 2008
This paper addresses the current lack of internationally recognized standards for quality management practices in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The application of the ISO 14001 standard for environmental management systems to MPAs can provide a flexible and adaptive management system that can be integrated with existing MPA management practices as a ...
Dumont, C, Thompson, M, Gaymer, CF
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Standardization and Discretion: Does the Environmental Standard ISO 14001 Lead to Performance Benefits?

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2006
This study sought to determine if the environmental management standard ISO 14001 helps organizations reduce the negative impact their business activities may have on the environment, and as a result, also improves their business performance. Forty organizations participated in the study and described how they implement ISO 14001 requirements.
S. Link, E. Naveh
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WHO ADOPTS MANAGEMENT STANDARDS EARLY? AN EXAMINATION OF ISO 14001 CERTIFICATIONS.

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2001
Standardization processes are of strategic importance to firms. Often firms incur significant switching costs when they fail to adopt practices or technologies that become industry requirements.
Andrew A. King, Michael J. Lenox
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Does the environmental management standard ISO 14001 stimulate sustainable development?

Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, 2008
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the relation between the ISO 14001 standard and sustainable development, and to present a case study of the energy sector in Poland in order to provide an example of the influence of the environmental management system according to ISO 14001 on environmental quality and sustainable development.Design ...
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Global Drilling Group Certification to ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 Standards

Asia Pacific Health, Safety, Security and Environment Conference, 2009
Abstract Premier Oil's drilling function has had global certification of its Drilling Management System (DMS) since August 2004. This certification is to both ISO (International Standards Organisation) 14001, an internationally recognised environmental standard and OHSAS (Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series) 18001 which is a
Tim Hanson, Salman Hasan
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Designing an environmental sustainable supply chain through ISO 14001 standard

Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, 2012
Purpose – The main objective of this paper is to investigate how a group of 18 companies, which are very committed to the environment, have developed a pattern in order to design a sustainability supply chain. The pattern is based on several requirements, including ISO 14001. Furthermore, the paper tries to identify the common pattern to optimizing the
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Critical factors for implementing ISO 14001 standard in United States industrial companies

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2003
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to present the results of an empirical study carried out on a sample of certified industrial companies that operate in the United States, with the aim of identifying some of the critical factors for successful implementation of the ISO 14001 registration process.
Khalid A. Babakri, Robert A. Bennett, Matthew Franchetti   +2 more
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