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Abstract
Abstract Environmental Management Systems (EMS) represent a solid opportunity for companies that voluntarily undertake a path towards the adoption of environmental protection policies. Many studies investigated the link between EMS and improvement of environmental performance, demonstrating how the adoption of an international standard as ISO 14000 or EMAS guarantees the company an improvement in its performance and an increase in transparency towards stakeholders. However, scientific research in this field reflects the strong variability due to the breadth and diversity of sectors in which the two international standards can be adopted. The aim of this work is to analyse, through textual statistics and text mining methods, the trends that characterize scientific production, highlighting most debated topics useful for developing new research perspectives in this research field.
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By the end of the 1980s, there has been a growing interest in environmental issues, by government institutions and consumers, and by the private economic sector
Environmental Management Systems (EMS) represent a solid opportunity for companies that voluntarily undertake a path towards the adoption of environmental protection policies
The industry began to recognize the complexity of the environmental problems connected to its business and implications for the business management of the environmental issue, starting to question on possible perspectives to reconcile the economy of its business with the environmental impact of its activities [1]
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By the end of the 1980s, there has been a growing interest in environmental issues, by government institutions and consumers, and by the private economic sector. Many companies, trying to anticipate the rapidly evolving environmental regulations, began to adopt voluntary pollution prevention practices, with the aim of reducing or eliminating pollutant emissions. These initiatives were based on the control of production processes and on the control of polluting sources that were introduced into the production cycle. This phenomenon represented one of the first steps towards the development of a preventive approach to the environmental issue, with respect to the vision previously considered of control of harmful substances released into nature [2]. The birth of environmental management systems is attributable to a variation of the inspiring principles of the American and European environmental policy, which since the 1990s has seen the progressive affirmation of a new approach to environmental protection in (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0)
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