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EMS Implementation: A Theoretical Process Design Approach

Authors : Ionuț Viorel Herghiligiu, Ioan-Bogdan Robu

Published in: Organizations and Performance in a Complex World

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The organizational sustainability orientation represents the current context need to sustain the future. Hence all the organizational process must integrate a sustainable behavior—that could be fulfilled by implementing an Environmental management system (EMS). The organizational processes identification is not an automatic procedure, but an approach to interpret the company operation. The integration regarding a predefined activity set in a certain process is a choice based on phenomenon monitoring and not on the phenomenon objective existence. Likewise, to implement an EMS through a process perspective it’s very complicated because the literature is limited regarding information’s/knowledge associated with this correlation. Therefore, the main research objective is to develop/propose a theoretical framework regarding the EMS implementation seen as an organizational complex process.

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Metadata
Title
EMS Implementation: A Theoretical Process Design Approach
Authors
Ionuț Viorel Herghiligiu
Ioan-Bogdan Robu
Copyright Year
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50676-6_6