The negative effects of the global crisis can be seen on SME’s because of their size and their difficulty to access finance. SME’s need to be aware of the impact that their activities have on the environment which will turn into a great opportunity to explore the economic advantages that...

The ISO 9000 series of quality management systems standards is widely diffused, with more than 560,000 sites certified in 152 countries as of December 2003. Anecdotal evidence suggests that global supply chains contributed to this diffusion, in the following sense. Firms in Europe were the first...

The environment is an essential element of human existence and is the result of combining natural elements with elements created by human activity. All this interact and influence the living conditions and opportunities for future development of the whole society. Quality of products and...

We study the global diffusion of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certification using a network diffusion framework. We start by investigating the presence and nature of contagion effects by defining alternative cross-country networks and testing their relative strength. Second, we study how the rate of...

The first part of this paper deals with the term of sustainable development as a most popular and important global trend for protecting the worlds eco system. The second part of the paper describes three most important standards for the certification of forest industry that is FCS, PEFC, and ISO...

Resumen El presente documento presenta los resultados finales de la ejecución de la investigación que en su desarrollo integró tres metodologías de investigación, análisis interpretativo de fuentes sobre organización y empresa a la luz del concepto de tecnorregión (Ariza, Gómez & León,...

Instruments for environmental management offer flexible solutions to polluters for solving environmental problems and the change of their behavior towards proactive, preventive approach.. These instruments may initiate changes in concepts, terminology and interpretation that is of fundamental...

Verschiedene Normen befassen sich mit Teilaspekten gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung. Mit ISO 26000 liegt nun erstmalig eine Norm zur ganzheitlichen Umsetzung gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung in Managementprozessen vor. Anders als z.B. ISO 14000 und SA8000 ist ISO 26000 jedoch nicht als...