ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN
EUROPEAN COMPANIES
Succes Stories and Evaluation Edited by Jobst
Conrad, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
Over the past decade, the greening of industry has become both an
issue in scientific and political debate and a generic substantive development in industry
itself. This study is the product of an international collaborative research project
investigating exemplary cases of successful environmental management in European companies
in Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, and Latvia with the aim of
discovering the reasons and dynamics underlying them and the role environmental policy did
and could play. Providing the background and context of the research project, the nine
case studies concern various companies of different sizes and from different industrial
branches and describe the social processes leading to substantive environmental
achievements and corresponding environmental management systems.
This study also evaluates the success stories in a comparative
empirical, as well as theoretical, perspective with an environmental policy orientation.
Case studies examine the role of a company's internal and external determinants,
explaining successful corporate environmental management on the micro-level.
Contents: Evolution of Environmental Policy and
Environmental Management Project Design, Procedures and Development The
Environmental Factor in the Designing of Passenger Cars by NedCar Determinants and
Dynamics of Successful Environmental Management Perspectives for Environmental
Management Significance of, and Implication and Recommendations for, Environmental
Policy
Readership: Environmental managers, business managers,
environmental consultancies, economists, and corporate and industrial libraries.
Cloth |
ISBN: 90-5699-085-3 |
US$105 / £69 / ECU88 |
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