Aim/purpose - The aim of the paper is to identify the features of ‘green’ small and medium-sized enterprises operating in Poland. Design/methodology/approach - The paper is based on a quantitative approach and a group of 200 small and medium-sized enterprises operating in Poland were...

Many firms go reduce their impact on the environment more than is legally required - that is, they overcomply with environmental regulations. There is clearly a cost to this, so there has to be a benefit too. I suggest that firms are consciously internalizing external costs, with a view to...

This paper analyzes how national institutional factors affect the adoption of the international environmental management standard ISO 14001, using a panel of 139 countries from 1996 to 2006. The analysis emphasizes that during the emerging phase of the standard, the potential lack of consensus...