A Review of Purpose, Benefits, Impediments and Structure of Environmental Management System (EMS)
The ISO 14001 EMS has been designed to introduce environmental improvement into every aspect of a company’s operations, offers an organized approach to manage environmental issues and it has now become administrative tool towards corporate environmental management.First introduced in 1996 includi...
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INSInet Publication
2010
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/6893/1/4710-4716_AJSR.pdf http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/6893/ |
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| Summary: | The ISO 14001 EMS has been designed to introduce environmental improvement into every
aspect of a company’s operations, offers an organized approach to manage environmental issues and
it has now become administrative tool towards corporate environmental management.First introduced
in 1996 including Malaysia. According to literature review there can be benefits that firms gain by
adopting ISO 14001 and so on and so forth. There present information regarding ISO 14001 standard
facts promoting adoption base from within firms such as those from Malaysia context.ISO 14001
certification is voluntary, adoption is depend on aspirations of the companies and the external drivers.
This study focuses on the internal and external factors that several literatures indicate play significant
role in determining adoption of ISO 14001. In Malaysia, the factor such as role of top management,
perceived benefit, motivation, market orientation, resource availability, regulatory concerns and
organizational culture is choose as independent variables. The adoption of ISO 14001 has been
relatively slow outside of Africa/West Asia, value to approximately three percent (3.02 percent). |
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