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The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification
This study examines the relationship between the level of socioeconomic development of the EU 28 countries and the adoption of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 environmental management system. First, through a multivariate comparative analysis of the secondary data obtained...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227000/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28133397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-015-0297-7 |
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description | This study examines the relationship between the level of socioeconomic development of the EU 28 countries and the adoption of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 environmental management system. First, through a multivariate comparative analysis of the secondary data obtained from the public statistics, a Hellwig’s synthetic indicator is created to rank the level of socioeconomic development of the EU 28 countries. Then, using the total number of certificates issued in 2012 and the increase from 2011, this study has found a correlation between the level of national socioeconomic development and the adoption of ISO 14001 system in their businesses. Although there was no relationship between the number of ISO 14001 certificates in 2012 and the level of socioeconomic development at the national level, a weak negative correlation was observed between the increase of certification from 2011 to 2012 and the level of national socioeconomic development. The results suggest a higher interest in ISO 14001 adoption by the firms from the less developed countries than those from the more developed states. |
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spelling | pubmed-52270002017-01-25 The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification Fura, Barbara Wang, Qingfang Qual Quant Article This study examines the relationship between the level of socioeconomic development of the EU 28 countries and the adoption of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 environmental management system. First, through a multivariate comparative analysis of the secondary data obtained from the public statistics, a Hellwig’s synthetic indicator is created to rank the level of socioeconomic development of the EU 28 countries. Then, using the total number of certificates issued in 2012 and the increase from 2011, this study has found a correlation between the level of national socioeconomic development and the adoption of ISO 14001 system in their businesses. Although there was no relationship between the number of ISO 14001 certificates in 2012 and the level of socioeconomic development at the national level, a weak negative correlation was observed between the increase of certification from 2011 to 2012 and the level of national socioeconomic development. The results suggest a higher interest in ISO 14001 adoption by the firms from the less developed countries than those from the more developed states. Springer Netherlands 2015-12-21 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5227000/ /pubmed/28133397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-015-0297-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Fura, Barbara Wang, Qingfang The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification |
title | The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification |
title_full | The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification |
title_fullStr | The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification |
title_full_unstemmed | The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification |
title_short | The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification |
title_sort | level of socioeconomic development of eu countries and the state of iso 14001 certification |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227000/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28133397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-015-0297-7 |
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