Over the past decade, the greening of industry has become both an issue in scientific and political debate and a generic substantive development in industry itself. This study is the product of an international collaborative research project investigating exemplary cases of successful environmental management in European companies in Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, and Latvia with the aim of discovering the reasons and dynamics underlying them and the role environmental policy did and could play. Providing the background and context of the research project, the nine case studies concern various companies of different sizes and from different industrial branches and describe the social processes leading to substantive environmental achievements and corresponding environmental management systems. This study also evaluates the success stories in a comparative empirical, as well as theoretical, perspective with an environmental policy orientation. Case studies examine the role of a company's internal and external determinants, explaining successful corporate environmental management on the micro-level.
Author(s): Jobst Conrad
Edition: 1
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 370
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 8
SUMMARY......Page 10
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 16
Background and Context......Page 18
Conceptual Introduction......Page 20
Evolution of Environmental Policy and Environmental Management......Page 36
Project Design, Procedures and Development......Page 58
Success Stories......Page 70
Amecke Fruchtsaft: Economical Pathway into an Ecological Optimum of Returnable-Bottle Systems......Page 72
Diessner Farben und Lacke GmbH und Co. KG: Recycling Paint Sludge and Reducing Pollutants......Page 92
ABC-Coating: Developing and Diffusing Water-Borne Coating Systems......Page 112
Glasuld: Resource Management and Eco-Auditing in Glass-Wool Production......Page 136
Eco-Balance Sheet and Implementation of Eco-Controlling in the KUNERT Group......Page 160
Hertie and The BUND: The History of an Uncommon Cooperation......Page 178
The Environmental Factor in the Designing of Passenger Cars by NedCar......Page 200
The Internalisation of Environmental Management at GE Plastics Europe......Page 220
Environmental Management at the Ciba Corporation......Page 240
Comparative Evaluation......Page 260
Typical and Varying Actors and Structures......Page 262
Comparison with Other Case Studies of Environmental Management......Page 278
Determinants and Dynamics of Successful Environmental Management......Page 296
Perspectives for Environmental Management......Page 308
Any Generalizable Pattern of Successful Environmental Management?......Page 322
Significance of, and Implications and Recommendations for Environmental Policy......Page 330
INDEX......Page 344
