Purpose In Turkey, where the environmental impact assessment (EIA) has been applied since 1993, there have been numerous amendments in the legal and administrative process of the EIA. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of those amendments to the EIA process....

Purpose Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is one of the best approaches to identifying, preventing, minimising, compensating for any unfavourable impacts on the environment and also encouraging sustainability. This paper aims to investigate the barriers to EIA implementation for construction...

Increasingly, manufacturers and service providers face the challenge of improving the environmental performance of their products. A number of studies have shown the importance of environmental goals and measures for successful environmental design efforts in firms. This paper provides a...

This study investigated the total quality management (TQM) strategies of Nigerian companies with regard to emphases on dimensions of TQM strategies, the impact of environmental factors on TQM strategies, and the empirical relations of TQM strategies, impact of environmental factors on TQM...

Economic “development” involves processes that often jointly produce both goods and “bads” – economic, environmental and social. The bads, however, are often technologically invisible; not least in terms of the way decisions are informed and accounted for. This paper takes as its case...

Asserts that an environmental quality assessment programme is essential in ensuring sustainable development. Management needs a programme to enable it to provide value in its product and service delivery at high quality while also ensuring the safety and health of both the users of its services...

When people buy color TVs, there is one color they really look out for – green. Or so Sony found out in the mid‐1990s when a Dutch consumer magazine gave one of its models a poor environmental rating. Market share fell by 11.5 percent while that of competitors’ TVs which received good...

The purpose of the present research is to develop a reliable and valid scale to distinguish and measure the three environmental factors of dynamic structural framework, control of workplace decisions, and fluidity in information sharing that are conceptually related to and affect an employee's...

Environmental issues have gained increasing attention in Singapore because of its small size and lack of natural resources. Since the 1970s, the Ministry of the Environment has striven to make Singapore environmentally‐friendly. The 2000 Global Competitiveness Report published by the World...

The topic of environmental protection has always been of great concern in Germany, the establishment of environmental data sources started in the 1970s. The development of environmental information system technology in Germany is outlined and two examples are given: the Environmental Planning...