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Explore the relationship between environmental management practices and company performance: Evidence from Swedish manufacturing industry

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Chen, Lujie Feldmann, Andreas
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	The relationship between environment management practices (EMPs) and company performance has been on the debate in literature and also of interest for company managers. This paper focuses on Swedish manufacturing industry for an empirical examination. With the support of data from standard environmental reports, we attempt to adopt content analysis and multivariate data analysis, and to replicate the evaluation of Montabon et al. (2007) [1]. However, the difference not only lies on that we applied group analysis to sample companies in different manufacturing industries in Sweden, but also due to our inclusive of both companies with and without GRI reporting systems. Our finding indicates no significant correlations between EMPs and financial performance. But some EMPs such as environmental design and specific design targets are both significantly correlated to both product and process innovation. Remanufacturing is significantly related to the return of capital. It indicates that the easiest EMPs to start working on for a company may use a bottom-up approach to environmental issues. Though as the literature shows companies make their strategy for corporate sustainability always in a top-down process [2]. Our research also shows that industry which consumes relatively more energy and resource such as process industry has significantly lower score on operational practices. Moreover, EMPs such as recycling, reduction of waste (reactive) and money spent on environmental are used to a slightly different degree in process industries.
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Language	English
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Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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