Ползите за бизнеса от внедряването на Системите за управление на околната среда

Haradinova, Anelia and Ivanova, Daniela and Vasileva, Elka (2015): Ползите за бизнеса от внедряването на Системите за управление на околната среда. Published in: Международна научна конференция „Посткризисно управление в бизнеса“, ХТМУ – София, 27 ноември 2015 г. (2015): pp. 41-53.

Abstract

The technological and economic progress in the last couple of decades has posed significant pressure over the planet. Fact that calls for urgent imposing of significant measures for sustainable development – measures that are the baseline for the current ecological policies. One of the most widely distributed and recognizable tools in this area is the Environment System Management (EMS) according to ISO 14001 and EMAS. Worldwide researches on the benefits of their implementations clearly reveal that EMS adds actual value to companies regardless of their size. The main identified advantages include internal processes optimization; innovations encouragement and proportional increase of business; development and introduction of new products and services; penetration and even creation of new markets. On that grounds, the current article provides a review and evaluation of the benefits the Bulgarian companies find after the EMS implementation in the last three years. The described data is based on the results of a survey among 135 Bulgarian companies with working EMS according to ISO 14000 or EMS.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Implementation of the Environment System Management - the benefits for business
• Language: Bulgarian
• Keywords: Environment System Management, benefits, business, Bulgaria
• Subjects: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q59 - Other

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