Environmental management: evidence of an Australian corporate response

✍ Scribed by Trevor D. Wilmshurst; Geoffrey R. Frost

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Weight: 194 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0968-9427
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0925(199711)4:3<127::aid-ema72>3.0.co;2-f

✦ Synopsis

Increasing community concern and governmental regulation on environmental issues have resulted in an increase in the development of environmental management systems. However, questions need to be asked as to whether this development is a re¯ection of a more proactive business stance on environmental performance, or simply a means by which to appease community concerns and ensure legal compliance. This study seeks to explore corporate environmental management by examining evidence collected identifying the means by which Australian companies have approached environmental management. The study suggests that, for a minority of companies, there has been a long history of environmental management supported by senior management. For the majority of companies, however, environmental management has only recently been developed, and has been seen primarily as a means of legitimizing environmental performance.