Environmental Benchmarking in the Electronics Industry: Integration in Business Processes for Design Improvement
The integration of environmental issues in mainstream business processes in the electronics industry is a process with ups and downs. In addition to known approaches to study this process, which are mainly of a technical and strategic nature, company cultural and peopleoriented aspects have been usedto come to a more complete understanding on how this integration process can or should be studied. A framework for analysis is proposed, introducing explaining factors taken from occupational and organizational psychology. A detailed case study, focusing on improving an established but suboptimal environmental benchmarking process in a major electronics firm, is reported on. It illustrates the benefits of the new research approach, when an increased attention for communication issues directly influences optimal goal-setting and operationalisation of the environmental benchmarking process. Based upon the results for the case study, the generic value of this new approach for studying the integration of environmental issues in mainstream business processes is discussed.
Frouke van den Berg Casper Boks Jaco Huisman Ab Stevels
国际会议
The 4th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology(第四届固体废物管理与技术国际会议)
北京
英文
336-351
2009-11-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）