Motivations for Proactive Environmental Management and Innovative Pollution Control

摘要: Madhu Khanna and Cameron Speir The corporate approach to environmental protection has been evolving from a regulation-driven reactive mode more proactive involving an internally motivated organizational change in culture management practices towards self-regulation. A growing number of firms are taking strategic view adopting (EMPs) that establish formal procedures routines can help achieve goals. These represent internal efforts at establishing policies goals, setting standards for suppliers, training employees, undertaking auditing cost accounting publishing information reports made available the public. Many also holistic pollution control treating it as synonymous with minimizing waste streams associated design, manufacture, use disposal products materials. Such modifying processes products, substituting raw materials recycling reduce end-of-pipe disposal. We refer such activities prevention or P2 activities. Both adoption EMPs forms both effort rather than actual performance outcomes. However, may require greater degree integration concerns operational decisions firm mitigate firm’s impact on environment directly. Adoption is voluntary since there no regulations mandating their adoption. Firms have considerable flexibility and/or they adopt which each implemented within organization. motivations