Core values and environmental management A Strong Inference Approach

• Published in: Strategic Sustainability pp. 91 - 103
• Main Authors: Hanson, John D., Melnyk, Steven A., Calantone, Roger J.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2007
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Time Based Competition; Corporate Environmental Management Systems; ERP; Em Implementation; SPC; Em; Sand Cone; Management Values; Em Success; Success Constructs; Literature Review; Follow; Specific Em; Core Values Model; Environmental Management Programme; QS Success; Reflective Indicators; Sic; Strong Inference; TQM; Performance Frontier; JIT; Statistical Process Control; Major Management Initiative; Assess Discriminant Validity
• ISBN: 9781874719618; 1874719616
• DOI: 10.4324/9781351281522-6

Environmentally responsible manufacturing (ERM) is a major management initiative that has built on numerous other organisational programmes. ERM and its implementation through a specific environmental management system is a valid issue to study for a number of reasons. Like quality management, ERM is the subject of an International Organisation for Standardisation standard that provides a framework for environmental management systems. R. D. Klassen measured management orientation or values and found them to be strongly associated with environmental performance. This chapter provides a framework for testing the relationship between quality and environmental management systems while considering common practices, specific environmental practices and top-management support. It presents the importance of the framework and the relationships within it from a review of the relevant literature. The literature review provides the foundation for several propositions that can be tested using the data available.