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Ali, SM, Belal, HM, Roy, S, Rahman, MT and Raihan, AS (2022) Examining the Role of Soft Dimensions on the Implementation of ISO 14000 Environmental Management Systems: A Graph-Theoretic Approach. Annals of Operations Research. ISSN 0254-5330
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Abstract
Organizations worldwide are now embracing different standards while approaching environmental management systems (EMS) to be environmentally and economically sustainable. The ISO 14001 EMS has captured much attention by offering efficient environmental practices organization-wide and throughout the supply chain. Human factors (HFs) are crucial behind implementing ISO 14001 EMS since research articles about ISO 14001 strongly emphasize different HFs. This study proposes a framework that solely focuses on those HFs. Influential HFs are extracted through content analysis of related literature and categorized into 5 main HFs. Opinions from experts in the relevant field about interrelationships and inheritances of the HFs are collected and converted into quantitative data. Incorporating the graph theoretic and matrix approach (GTMA), the data delivered permanent values corresponding to the main HFs and their best and worst possible values. Among the main HFs, EMS Training has been found to have the most scopes for improvement, followed by Employee Empowerment and EMS Teamwork. This study demonstrates a framework about how to assess the role of HFs behind internalizing ISO 14001 EMS and enables organizations to go for competitive benchmarking and to define and adjust goals for environmental management.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ISO 14001; EMS; Human resource factor; Graph-theoretic and matrix approach (GTMA); Emerging economy; Operations Research; 01 Mathematical Sciences; 08 Information and Computing Sciences; 15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
| Divisions: | Business & Management (from Sep 19) |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2022 10:56 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Sep 2022 09:45 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1007/s10479-022-04898-8 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/17320 |
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