The last decade has seen increasing awareness of the importance of
understanding corporate environmental management systems (EMSs) and
their relationships with sustainability, competitiveness and
institutional practice. It is now assumed that most large companies
have some version of an EMS in place with systems ranging from
informal policies and practices to formalised third-party certified
systems that are widely publicized by companies and are now
integral to their strategic direction. No matter what level and
type of system a firm chooses, both practitioners and researchers
wish to examine and better understand the extent to which these
systems are cross-functional, how they impact on performance
evaluation, their capability to monitor supply chains and the
life-cycles of products and services and, most importantly, whether
these systems actually make a contribution to better environmental
performance. This book provides intriguing insights into strategic
and sustainable EMSs. It provides clear evidence of benefits that
should exceed the costs (tangible and otherwise), and help
practitioners understand the attributes of well-developed and
strategically focused EMSs. It also demonstrates the link to
performance measures such as reputation, improved position in the
marketplace, cost, quality, waste reduction and numerous
sustainable development-based metrics and issues. The comprehensive
scope of topics spans several industries and provides environmental
systems insight involving sustainable management systems, strategic
and operational impacts of environmental systems, cross-country
comparisons of EMS design processes and results, product-based
environmental systems, EMS impacts at innovative organisations and
environmental systems integration within specific industries. The
book is split into three sections. First, the book covers the broad
issues of planning and designing an EMS and includes topics such as
performance evaluation, comparisons between multinational
environmental systems, sustainable development and links between
already established quality systems and an EMS. The second section
focuses on EMS implementation and operation and incorporates some
corporate or industry-specific case studies. The third and final
category of the book highlights the use of an EMS to evaluate
business processes. Strategic Sustainability will be essential
reading for both managers faced with decisions regarding their own
EMSs and to researchers seeking additional insights from
state-of-the-art examples for further theoretical development and
testing.
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