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Is an Environmental Management System able to influence environmental and competitive performance?

April 26, 2017able competitive Environmental influence Management PERFORMANCE system

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Is an Environmental Management System able to influence environmental and competitive performance?

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) (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa) Fabio Iraldo (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa & IEFE – Institute for Environmental and Energy Policy and Economics, Bocconi University, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa & IEFE – Institute for Environmental and Energy Policy and Economics, Bocconi University) Abstract The EMAS Regulation (Reg 761/01 EC) is an EU scheme for the implementation of an Environmental Management System (EMS) by any organization, implemented by the European Commission since the year 1993. The EMS has been originally proposed both by the European Commission and by ISO as the frontrunner of a series of policy tools that were conceived to enable companies to simultaneously pursue environmental objectives and competitive targets (in a synergetic way). Based on the unique dataset of the EVER project, this paper investigates whether or not an EMS implemented within the EMAS Regulation has an effect on firm performance both from an environmental and a competitive point of vi