Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the publication on 3 May 2007 of:
STRATEGIC SUSTAINABILITY: THE STATE OF THE ART IN CORPORATE
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Edited by Robert Sroufe, Boston College,
USA, and Joseph Sarkis, Clark University, USA
288 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-874719-61-8
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STRATEGIC SUSTAINABILITY: THE STATE OF THE ART IN CORPORATE
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
If you are looking for a sophisticated, panoramic view of the strategic
approach to environmental management systems, this is a broad and deep
source of interesting and useful research on this vital sustainability
topic.
Professor Mark Starik, George Washington University School of Business;
Co-Editor, Organization and Environment
There is much to be learned here for businesses, policy-makers,
regulators, and activists of all kinds.
Kurt Fischer, The Greening of Industry Network
...the information provided here is relevant, credible and, in many
cases, visionary. This book is, I believe, essential reading for any
firm wanting to know more about the latest in EMSs and how these can be
integrated into current business practices.
Robert H. King Jr, President of the ANSI ASQ National Accredition Board
(ANAB), USA
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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 publicised 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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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Robert Sroufe, Boston College, USA, and Joseph Sarkis, Clark
University, USA Available free to view/download
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Part I: EMS Planning and Design
1. EPI Design: Integrating Corporate Strategies into the Development
Process of an Environmental Performance Evaluation System
Enrico Cagno, Lorenzo Tardini and Paolo Trucco, Politecnico di Milano,
Italy
2. A Comparison of Environmental Management System Components and
Practices
Gwen Christini, Montgomery Watson Harza, USA, and Deanna H. Matthews
and Chris Hendrickson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
3. EMS and Sustainable Development: A Model and Comparative Studies of
Integration
Ulku Oktem, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA, Phil
Lewis, Rohm and Haas Corporation, USA, Deborah Donovan, Sunoco, USA,
James R. Hagan, GlaxoSmithKline, UK, and Thomas Pace, Burlington
Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co., USA
4. Designing a Sustainability Management System at BMW Group: The
Designworks/USA Case Study
Kellie A. McElhaney and Michael W. Toffel, Haas School of Business,
University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Natalie Hill, Human Rights
Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA
5. Core Values and Environmental Management: A Strong Inference Approach
John D. Hanson, Steven A. Melnyk and Roger J. Calantone, The Eli Broad
Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University, USA
Part II: Implementation and Operation
6. A Product-Based Environmental Management System
Kathleen Donnelly, Arjen Salemink, Frederick Blechinger, Albrecht Schuh
and Theresa Boehm, Lucent Technologies, Inc.
7. Environmental Reporting on the Internet: From a Technical Tool to a
Strategic Necessity
Ralf Isenmann, University of Bremen, Germany, and Christoph Bey, ESCEM
School of Business and Management Tours-Poitiers, France
8. Web-Based Environmental Management Systems for SMEs
Adeline Maijala, Lassi Linnanen and Tuula Pohjola, Helsinki University
of Technology, Finland
9. Integrating Sustainability Practices into Power Generation Operations
Teresa DeBono, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, USA
10. The Environmental Management System of the Environmental Services
Department of Athens International Airport, Eleftherios Venizelos
Calliopi Raftopoulou, Charalampos N. Kavouras and Panagiotis Karamanos,
Environmental Services Department, Athens International Airport, Greece
Part III: Environmental Management System Evaluation
11. Factors Influencing the Implementation of Environmental Management
Systems, Practices and Performance
Olaf Weber, Department of Environmental Sciences and GOE, Zurich,
Switzerland
12. Environmental Management Systems in the US and Thailand: A Case
Comparison
Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Duke University, USA, Richard N.L. Andrews,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, Achara Chandrachai,
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and Kaewta Rohitratana, Thammasat
University, Thailand
13. Change Management: Sustainable Development via an Augmented EMS
Martin Callinan, University of Melbourne, Australia
14. Environmental Management Systems and Environmental Performance
Jonas Ammenberg, Linköping University, Sweden
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