TY - JOUR
T1 - Is ISO 14001 a gateway to more advanced voluntary action? The case of green supply chain management
AU - Arimura, Toshi H.
AU - Darnall, Nicole
AU - Katayama, Hajime
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development for funding a portion of this study. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the US Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for Environmental Economics and the authors are grateful to the seminar participants for their helpful comments and suggestions. The authors also thanks two anonymous referees for providing insightful comments and suggestions on an early version of this paper. Toshi Arimura thanks the Sophia University-wide Collaborative Research for its financial support and Akira Hibiki for the data collection. Nicole Darnall is grateful for the European Commission's Erasmus Mundus program at the Central European University and Lund University for hosting her during the completion of this paper. Hajime Katayama thanks the hospitality and support of Center for the Environment and Trade Research at Sophia university, where a significant portion of the work was done. All conclusions and any errors are the responsibility of the authors.
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - Using Japanese facility-level data, we estimate the effects of ISO 14001 certification on the promotion of more advanced practices, namely green supply chain management (GSCM). Our results show that ISO 14001 promotes GSCM practices. Facilities with environmental management systems (EMS) certified to ISO 14001 are 40% more likely to assess their suppliers' environmental performance and 50% more likely to require that their suppliers undertake specific environmental practices. Further, government programs that encourage voluntary EMS adoption indirectly promote GSCM practices. These programs increase the probabilities that facilities will assess their suppliers' environmental performance and require suppliers to undertake specific environmental practices by 7% and 8%, respectively. Combined, these findings suggest that there may be significant but previously unnoticed spillover effects of ISO 14001 and government promotion of voluntary action.
AB - Using Japanese facility-level data, we estimate the effects of ISO 14001 certification on the promotion of more advanced practices, namely green supply chain management (GSCM). Our results show that ISO 14001 promotes GSCM practices. Facilities with environmental management systems (EMS) certified to ISO 14001 are 40% more likely to assess their suppliers' environmental performance and 50% more likely to require that their suppliers undertake specific environmental practices. Further, government programs that encourage voluntary EMS adoption indirectly promote GSCM practices. These programs increase the probabilities that facilities will assess their suppliers' environmental performance and require suppliers to undertake specific environmental practices by 7% and 8%, respectively. Combined, these findings suggest that there may be significant but previously unnoticed spillover effects of ISO 14001 and government promotion of voluntary action.
KW - Discrete choice model
KW - Endogeneity
KW - Environmental impacts
KW - Environmental management systems
KW - Government assistance programs
KW - Green supply chain management
KW - ISO 14001
KW - Positive spillover
KW - Voluntary actions
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jeem.2010.11.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jeem.2010.11.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79951553961
SN - 0095-0696
VL - 61
SP - 170
EP - 182
JO - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
JF - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
IS - 2
ER -