Environmental Management Performance Research Articles

Are corporate social responsibility and environmental management ‘influencers’ of performance in companies of the energetic sector?

AbstractPrior research has suggested that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) may affect Environmental Management (EM). Nevertheless, there has been a lack of empirical studies that have examined these relationships, specially, in companies of the energetic field. This research empirically examines whether there is a positive relationship between the implementation of a CSR culture in a company and the obtaining of better Operational Performance, as well as between CSR and EM processes and also between EM and Operational Performance. The analysis of the results obtained through the Partial Least Squares (PLS) methodology concludes that there is a positive relationship between all of them, including this paper a main contribution to Literature as it is the fact that EM plays a mediator role increasing the CSR impact over Operational Performance. The major implication derived from this study is that investments in CSR and EM practices towards all the company stakeholders should positively affect performance. Therefore, both should be equally as important as other functions of a firm.

Digital transformation by firms and the cleanliness of China's export products

This study breaks the research chain on “firm digital transformation-trade green transformation”, focusing on the effect and mechanism in firms' digital transformation on the “cleanliness” of export products. It offers theoretical and empirical support on how to respond to demand for a green transformation in trade by firms in the context of their digital transformation. First, we reveal the mechanism in the effect of firms' digital transformation on export product cleanliness at the theoretical level by extending the Stackelberg game model and constructing a variable for product cleanliness. Second, we build an index to evaluate firms' digital transformation by matching data on A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2016 with a China Customs firm database and quantitatively analyze it with a machine learning algorithm. Combined with the measured export product cleanliness index, this mechanism is empirically tested with standardized measurement methods. Overall, we find that firms' digital transformation can significantly contribute to improvement in export product cleanliness. This finding remains robust to a series of tests and decomposition of digital transformation into various dimensions. The mechanism test found that the digital transformation of firms mainly promotes the improvement of export product cleanliness through the channels of increasing digital factor inputs, promoting green technology innovation, improving environmental management performance and achieving economies of scale. Heterogeneity analysis shows that digital transformation better facilitates the promotion of cleaner exported products from firms certified with ISO14001, whose primary export destinations are countries outside of the EU, and with high disclosure quality. Furthermore, digital transformation has a structural effect on the improvement of export product cleanliness in the context of urban disclosure of environmental information.

Influence of performance measures and sample characteristics on the relationship between corporate environmental management and firm performance: A meta‐analytic review

Influence of performance measures and sample characteristics on the relationship between corporate environmental management and firm performance: A meta‐analytic review

실천경영학에서 환경경영 외부적 요인이 환경경영활동 및 경영성과에 미치는 영향

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between environmental management factors and management performance and to verify the mediating effect of environmental management level. Through this, we would like to find ways to improve the environmental management level and the management performance.
 Research design, data, and methodology: A survey was conducted on employees of manufacturing industry located in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongsangnam-do. A total of 356 valid questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS programs. The hypothesis on the relationship between environmental management factors, environmental management and management performance was verified.
 Results: As a result of the analysis, it was found that environmental management factors affects environmental management and management performance. Among the environmental management factors, market opportunity, market pressure and government regulation affected environmental management. Environmental management affacts non-financial performance and non-finalcial performance affects financial performance. Therefore, it was found that some of the environmental management factors had a significant effect on management performance by completely mediating environmental management.
 Implications: This study verified the mediating effect of environmental management in the relationship between environmental management factors and management performance, and it was found that effect had a complete mediating effect. Therefore, it is necessary to come up with measures to improve environmental management and management performance.

Impact of green supply chain management on social performance through economic undergraduate’s view

The perspectives of economic students in Can Tho City, Vietnam were investigated in order to have a deeper understanding of the relationship between green supply chain management (GSCM) and social performance. A comprehensive survey was conducted on a sample size of 526 undergraduate students enrolled in business administration and international business courses. This study effort examined the impact of several subcomponents of GSCM on social performance. The inclusion of green production, green distribution, green supply chain management, and environmental education was seen. The coefficients of 0.24 and 0.115 suggest a favorable relationship between green procurement and internal environmental management and social performance. The existing scholarly literature presents several instances in which the implementation of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has resulted in enhanced societal performance. The objective of this study is to contribute to the existing literature by investigating the many factors that influence the performance of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) in improving financial outcomes. The investigation also encompasses the examination of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) and its influence on societal performance. The authors propose that the extent to which graduates were exposed to GSCM education throughout their college years will have a substantial impact on their contributions to their respective fields and to society as a whole. Individuals who proactively pursue higher education by enrolling in college and focusing their studies on attaining a business degree are more likely to increase their chances of achieving success as entrepreneurs. Hence, these affluent proprietors of companies possess the potential to expand their operations and provide significant economic benefits at a macro level. In order to ensure the enduring viability of businesses, local communities, and the natural environment, educational institutions should provide curricula including corporate social responsibility, volunteerism, and ecologically conscious manufacturing methods. The integration of environmental stewardship with ethical business practices is crucial.

Port Sustainability Index: Methodological Issues

Approaches to find impact of maritime transport on environmental performance of ports or port regions through models with different sets of assumptions suffer from limitations. The paper describes an integrated Port Sustainability Index (PSI) by combining relevant environmental aspects of port processes and operations by transforming each indicator to follow normal distribution and taking PSI as sum of such normally distributed indicator scores, avoiding skew and outliers. Thus, there is no bias for developed or under-developed ports. PSI is simple and satisfies desired properties including assessment of effectiveness of policy measures through responsiveness, statistical tests of equality of mean PSI across ports. Dimensions of PSI can be ranked by respective elasticity. The method also helps to find growth curve of PSI of a port over time. Proposed PSI may help port authorities to evaluate their performance from the sustainability angle along with performances in the relevant dimensions and may serve as a strategic tool for port environmental performance management.

Returns on Solid Waste Management: Evidence from Indian Informal MSMEs

The paper revisits the Porter-Wagner dilemma about the association between environmental management (EM) and firm performance (FP). The context of informal Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) provides an interesting case since they are away from regulatory scrutiny or corporate/social obligations. The study resorts to labor productivity as the measure of FP and EM is represented by the various solid waste management practices (WMPs) adopted by the informal enterprises. Using the latest available cross-sectional data on un-incorporated firms by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) 73rd round 2015-16, we found the positive impact of WMPs was higher in the case of more productive firms in the quantile, indicating the relevance of the Porter-Wagner dilemma. The direction of causality was further validated using the propensity score matching technique by decomposing the average treatment effect.

CARBON CREDIT MARKET IN THE MOBILITY SECTOR: OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BRAZILIAN CONTEXT

The transportation sector is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases, contributing to climate change. Numerous initiatives have been adopted worldwide to reduce the emission of these gases, including the carbon credit market. The objective of this study was to review and contextualize mobility and pathways for transitioning to a low-carbon economy. The research was conducted using national and international databases and organizations related to the carbon credit market. Studies, reports, and documents were selected based on the following criteria: Materials related to mobility, sustainability, and carbon credit themes; in English, Portuguese, or French up until November 2022. The analysis of the information identified that life cycle analysis calculation methodologies are predominantly focused on nature, with little published about the transportation sector. Companies still need to incorporate environmental performance management through greenhouse gas emission inventories and evolve towards life cycle analysis of their products and services. In the global scenario, road vehicles account for 77% of the global carbon emissions from transportation (34% being heavy vehicles). Heavy vehicles disproportionately contribute more to the warming potential due to particle emissions. In conclusion, there is no single solution for the decarbonization of the transportation sector in Brazil; a combination of fleet renewal, biofuels, and improvements in the efficiency of the existing fleet, such as the electrification of the second axle of heavy vehicles, are essential to achieve Brazilian goals.

Agricultural products industry chain construction based on multiple regression analysis on the innovation of rural management mode

Abstract This paper constructs a multiple regression analysis model of the agricultural industry chain with rural environment and economic management and estimates the model parameters using the least squares method. The linear correlation between the variables is analyzed based on the variance expansion coefficient, standardization coefficient, complex correlation coefficient and other indicators, and the regression problem is analyzed for significance. Then the antidifferential Kalman filter optimization method of least squares and the threshold denoising optimization method based on wavelet decomposition and reconstruction transformation are introduced to optimize the model parameters to improve the model performance. Finally, the impact of agricultural industry chain construction on the rural environment and economic management is analyzed based on the model. The correlation coefficients between the three dimensions of agricultural product industry chain management and the performance of rural economic management are 0.318, 0.468, 0.416, and the correlation coefficients between them and the performance of rural environmental management are 0.297, 0.528, and 0.529, respectively, which indicates that rural agricultural product industry chain construction can promote rural management.

Bridging the GAP: exploring the nexus between green human resource management, organizational citizenship behavior towards the environment, employee green commitment, and environmental performance in hotels

The relationship between green human resource management (GHRM) and environmental performance (EP) has received little attention in the past, despite the hotel management discipline's mediation analysis being one of the areas examined. To fill this research gap, the study expands upon the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity (AMO) and social identity theory (SIT). It also goes beyond what has already been written by examining the relationship between environmental performance and green human resource management by examining the roles of Employee Green Commitment (EGC) and Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards the Environment (OCBE). According to a survey conducted on 273 hotel employees, it has been found that GHRM plays a positive and significant role in promoting Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards the Environment (OCBE), Employee Green Commitment (EGC), and environmental performance (EP) of hotels. Additionally, implementing green human resource management can have a considerable and favorable influence on both environmental performance and employees' commitment to eco-friendliness. It was observed that organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment and employee green commitment play a significant role in mediating the relationship between Green human resource management and hotel environmental performance. The data from the survey were analyzed using Smart-PLS 4 which involved conducting validity and reliability tests on the instruments and testing the hypothesized relationships using SEM analysis. Based on this report, it is recommended that HR managers and hotel top management develop green HRM policies to promote sustainability in the hospitality industry.

Product category rules development as a reference for PROPER life cycle assessment reporting: recommendations

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MOEF) issued regulations regarding monitoring of company environmental performance (PROPER), which required companies to conduct LCA studies for their products to obtain a green or gold rating. The LCA report submitted in the PROPER program should refer to the specified guiding standards, namely Product Category Rules, which contain the necessary elements of product environmental footprint (PEF) for assessing environmental management performance evaluations to meet international standards and ensure acceptance by the international community. This study aims to evaluate and analyze industries that have received green and gold ratings in the 2022 PROPER program and whether their LCA arrangement refers to certain PCRs contained in the international program operators. MOEF and MOI (Ministry of Industry) will use the evaluation and analysis results as a suggestion to build PCR for priority industries. Seven industrial sectors already have PCR as the basis of the LCA study. Additionally, three product categories require establishing PCR as a criterion for LCA.

Environmental management and firm performance on firm value moderated by good corporate governance

This research aims to analyze the influence of environmental management and firm performance on firm value, which is moderated by good corporate governance, which is proxied by board size and independent commissioners. The research design is quantitative research with the title "The Influence of Environmental Management and Firm Performance on Firm Value Moderated by Good Corporate Governance". The data source is secondary data collected from the IDX (Indonesian Stock Exchange) website to access financial report data of mining sector manufacturing companies, for the period 2017 - 2022. The population of this research is mining sector companies listed on the IDX for the 2017-2022 period. The sampling technique used in this research was purposive sampling. The results show that there is no direct influence from ISO certification on ROA (Return on Assets). There is a significant positive effect of firm value from the environmental management and firm performance variable, moderated by board size. However, the presence of independent commissioners does not moderate the effect of ISO and ROA on firm value. This means that the existence of directors can moderate the implementation of ISO 14001 on company value.

How productive is liquid waste management practices in Indian informal micro, small and medium enterprises?

PurposeWaste management is a crucial aspect of sustainable development, but is it economically sustainable for marginalized informal firms? The study tries to answer this question by revisiting the Porter–Wagner dilemma about the association between environmental management (EM) and firm performance (FP). The study looks into the various liquid waste management practices (LWMPs) adopted by them and the overall impact of LWMPs on firms' economic performance.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses the latest available cross-sectional data source on Indian informal firms by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), 73rd survey round 2015–16. First, ordered logistic regression was used to analyse the factors that impact a firm's adoption of a particular LWMP. Subsequently, to capture the heterogeneity among the firms based on productivity and size, a quantile regression (QR) was employed to analyse the impact of LWMPs on firm productivity. Additionally, the propensity score matching technique was used to address endogeneity concerns.FindingsThe authors find that bigger, urban-located and female-owned firms adopt cleaner LWMPs that positively impact their economic performance. Furthermore, the QR analysis observed that the most productive firms could extract higher returns from adopting cleaner LWMPs, indicating the relevance of the Porter–Wagner dilemma, i.e. environmental and economic sustainability are possibly symbiotic, thus having a feedback mechanism.Originality/valueTo the authors’ limited knowledge, this is the first study analysing the relationship between EM and FP among the informal sector firms, which are away from any regulations or obligations. Since sustainability is a two-way process, policies should be devised that incentivise sustainable business practices.

The Influence of Environmental Management and Firm Performance on Firm Value is Moderate by Good Corporate Governance

This research aims to analyze the influence of environmental management and firm performance on firm value, which is moderated by good corporate governance, which is proxied by board size and independent commissioners. The research design is quantitative research with the title "The Influence of Environmental Management and Firm Performance on Firm Value Moderated by Good Corporate Governance". The data source is secondary data collected from the IDX (Indonesian Stock Exchange) website to access financial report data of mining sector manufacturing companies, for the period 2017 - 2022. The population of this research is mining sector companies listed on the IDX for the 2017-2022 period. The sampling technique used in this research was purposive sampling. The results show that there is no direct influence from ISO certification on ROA (Return on Assets). There is a significant positive effect of firm value from the environmental management and firm performance variable, moderated by board size. However, the presence of independent commissioners does not moderate the effect of ISO and ROA on firm value. This means that the existence of directors can moderate the implementation of ISO 14001 on company value.

The Influence of Return on Equity, Environmental Risk Management and Stock Performance on Corporate Sustainability Performance

The Influence of Return on Equity, Environmental Risk Management and Stock Performance on Corporate Sustainability Performance

Pengaruh Penerapan Green Accounting, Environmental Performance dan Manajemen Laba terhadap Sustainable Growth

This study aims to examine the influence of green accounting, environmental performance, and earnings management on sustainable growth, with financial leverage as a control variable. The population of this study consists of companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) until December 31, 2021, with the addition of sample criteria including companies that have received environmental performance assessments from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia. The data collected from the sample covers the period from 2017 to 2021. Data were collected from 91 different companies using purposive sampling technique. This study employed the Generalized Least Square (GLS) method through multiple linear regression with unbalanced panel data. Based on the analysis results, it can be concluded that green accounting has a significant positive effect on sustainable growth, environmental performance does not have an effect on sustainable growth, and earnings management does not have an effect on sustainable growth.

Forty-Seven Years of Environmental Management Accounting Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Environmental sustainability is considered as responsible engagement with the environment in order to prevent the depletion or degradation of natural resources and ensure long-term environmental quality. Environmental management accounting (EMA) is a tool that aids in enhancing environmental performance and environmental information management. EMA is a growing topic, but there hasn't been a complete analysis to pull everything together and make sense of it all. By adopting bibliometric review, through performance analysis, and science mapping, our research fills in this research gap. Biblioshiny in R and VOS viewer is used for conducting data analysis. Through an extensive study of 1,075 documents, this study discloses the publication and citation trend, top influential authors, journals, publications, and top productive institutions and countries. The study also identifies topic trends through temporal analysis. Different thematic clusters are identified through bibliographic coupling and Co-occurrence of the author’s keywords (i.e. Social and environmental accounting, Environmental management accounting, Environmental performance, Carbon accounting, Sustainability, and sustainable development, Eco-system services, Environmental disclosure, and corporate social responsibility). Centrality measures are presented to show the impact of the author and keywords. The study concludes with suggestions for future study, and ways forward focusing on Circular economy, green accounting, material flow cost accounting, carbon accounting, sustainability, etc. The study is wholly dependent on the Scopus database, further studies can explore other databases like Web of science, google scholar, and others.

기업의 환경 경영 태도에 대한 유형화 및 결정요인 분석

Purpose - The main objective of this study is to cluster companies based on environmental management attitudes using various indicators, and analyze differences in activities among the clusters to gain insights into environmental management performance.
 Design/Methodology/Approach - The study encompasses panel data from 12 countries, 22 industry sectors, and 3,402 companies from 2013 to 2022. This study uses both machine learning methodology and conventional econometric methodology. The primary methodology involves using an unsupervised learning technique, K-means clustering, to categorize environmental management attitudes. Subsequently, Kernel Density estimation and Multinomial Logistic Regression were employed to conduct comparative analyses of environmental performance indicators within each cluster and identify the determinants shaping environmental management attitudes.
 Findings - The research revealed the existence of five distinct clusters of companies with varying environmental management attitudes. Through Multinomial Logistics Regression, it identified that variables such as greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, total assets, return on assets, and other significantly influence environmental management attitudes.
 Research Implications - By uncovering common characteristics and determinants within major countries and industries, this study offers valuable insights in promoting domestic environmental management in the context of rapidly changing international trade and investment environments. The findings provide policy implications and suggestions for fostering proactive environmental management practices among domestic companies.

The Importance of Green Management and its Implication in Creating Sustainability Performance on the Small-Scale Industries in India

Objective: This paper examines how stakeholder demand, organisational resources, knowledge, environmental uncertainty management, and product uniqueness affect green marketing and India's small-scale industry's sustainability. The study is important in green management because it examines concurrent relationships between stakeholders' demand, organisations' resources, knowledge, environmental uncertainty management, product uniqueness, and sustainability performance. Sustainability performance variables measure financial and non-financial performance in this study. Method: This study will quantitatively explain the phenomenon using numerical data and linear equation methods. Madhya Pradesh, with 7.54 percent of India's SSIs, hosted the study. Madhya Pradesh's forest-based industry and environmentally friendly development made these sites ideal. Researchers chose large cities since SSIs were more prevalent there in prior years. Bhopal, Jabalpur, and Gwalior will contribute data. Result: Green management affects SSIs' sustainability performance due to stakeholder demand, knowledge, environmental uncertainty management, and product uniqueness, but not organisational resources. Conclusion: Stakeholder demand, organisation resources, expertise, managing environmental uncertainty, and product uniqueness affect green management and SSI's sustainability performance. Green management boosts SSI's sustainability.

Assessing environmental, social, and governance performance and natural resource management policies in China's dual carbon era for a green economy

As the globe faces urgent environmental concerns and the need to move toward a greener and more sustainable economy, the idea of sustainability has received a lot of attention recently. Evaluation of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and natural resource management (NRM) policy options are crucial given the urgent environmental issues the world is facing and the requirement for sustainable development. The objective of this study is to assess China's ESG performance and NRM policy options in the dual carbon era for developing green economy. The dual carbon places a focus on the need of lessening carbon emissions and encouraging low-carbon activities and technologies. A hybrid multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods i.e. Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS)-GREY are used to evaluate and prioritize the criteria, sub-criteria, and alternatives. The FAHP method is used to assess the criteria and sub-criteria of ESG performance. Moreover, the TOPSIS-Grey method is employed to prioritize the NRM policy options. The findings of FAHP analysis reveal that environment is the most crucial criteria, followed by governance and social performance. While the TOPSIS-Grey analysis show that green finance and investment, policy and regulatory reforms, and circular economy practices are the most suitable NRM policy options. China can significantly advance toward a more ecologically and socially responsible future while fostering economic growth and prosperity in the dual carbon era by implementing the recommended sustainable practices and policies.