Economic efficiency of environmental management system operation in industrial companies

International Conference on Sustainable Cities

地球科学;经济学

Dukmasova, N.^1 ; Ershova, I.^2 ; Plastinina, I.^1 ; Boyarinov, A.^1

Department of Environmental Economics, Ural Federal University Named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, 19 Mira str., Ekaterinburg, Russia^1

Department of Development of the Machine-building Production, Ural Federal University Named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, 19 Mira str., Ekaterinburg, Russia^2

关键词: Competitive advantage;    Economic efficiency;    Electrical equipment manufacturers;    Environmental management system (eMS);    Financial performance;    Industrial companies;    ISO 14001 certification;    Methodological approach;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/72/1/012001/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/72/1/012001

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The article examines the issue of the efficiency of the environmental management system (EMS) implementation in the Russian machine-building companies. The analysis showed that Russia clearly lags behind other developed and developing countries in terms of the number of ISO 14001 certified companies. According to the authors, the main cause of weak system implementation activity is attributed to the lack of interest in ISO 14001 certification on the Russian market. Five-year primary (field) research aimed at the analysis of the environmental priorities of the civilians suggests that the image component of the economic benefits ensures the increase in economic and financial performance of the company due to the increase in customers' loyalty to the products of the EMS adopter. To quantify economic benefits obtained from EMS implementation, a methodological approach with regard to the image component and the decrease in semi-fixed costs due to the increase in the production scale has been developed. This approach has been tested in a machine-building electrical equipment manufacturer in Ekaterinburg. This approach applied to data processing yields the conclusion that EMS gives a good additional competitive advantage to its adopters.