Theoretical And Empirical Research On Environmental Management Of The Firm

As man has been lavishing the natural resource and letting out the contamination to the environment discretionarily after entering the industrial society, the environment has been deteriorating gradually. The environmental problem has a great deal with the operation of the firm; as a result, environmental management of the firm has been the core issue in the field of research. Now there are conflicting views for the relationship between environmental management and competitiveness of the firm. One is the 'traditionalist' view regarding that environmental management increases the cost and blemishes the competitiveness, and the other known as the 'revisionist' view regards that innovation can be inspired by environmental management, so it is a "win win" relationship between environmental management and competitiveness of the firm.The research tries to investigate environmental management of the firm through theoretical and empirical research with the Chinese firm. The research firstly analyzes the relationship between environmental management and competitiveness of the firm with evolutionary economics as a theoretical framework, and makes an conclusion that the resource of the firm, especially the organizational capability is the key explanatory factor for the relationship between environmental management and competitiveness of the firm. In macroscopical level, the research points out that environmental management of the Chinese firm has a good trend by the harmony between the firm and the environment from 1998 to 2003, and then classifies the regions of China into three by the harmony with the efficiency of 2003, and analyzes their characteristic, in the end, countermeasures are put forward for each kind of the regions. In microcosmic level, based on evolutionary theory of the firm, the research develops the theoretical model and uses the firms in Zhujiang Delta as samples to analyze the influential ingredients of the attitude and the behaviour of environmental management through an environmental management survey and investigate the relationship of the resource of the firm, the market structure, the attitude, the behavivour of environmental management and the performance of the firm. Empirical results reveal (l)that the market structure influences the attitude, the behavivour of environmental management and the performance of the firm; the resource, especially the capability is significantly positive with the attitude, the behavirour of environmental management and the performance of the firm; (2)that the attitude is highly significant and positive of the behaviour of environmental management; (3)that...