Research On Mechanisms Of ISO14001 Environmental Management Systems On Firm Performance

Since the human came into industrial development,environmental degradation has been increasingly serious. The main producer of environmental problems is firm, so firm environmental management has gradually become a hot research topic. Although a broad consensus has achieved for the necessity of environmental management systems, the environmental management system and firm performance relationship in the nearly 20 years of research has not reached a consensus. In fact, the author thinks that the existing researches generally examine the ISO14001 environmental management system as a binary variables, study the influence of the certification or not on enterprise performance, while ignoring the implementation degree of environmental management system after certification will exist obvious differences and further lead to different firm performance.Therefore, taking the manufacturing enterprises as research object, through theoretical and empirical research, discussed under the background of China’s environment, from the perspective of ISO14001 environmental management system implementation in firm to analyze the influence mechanism of environmental management system on firm performance. Firstly, based on a vast amount of literature collating, we divided ISO14001 implementation degree into three dimensions: daily application, commitment, and integration,constructed a theoretical model of from voluntary adoption driver-implementation degree-firm performance and build hypothesis. In empirical aspects, we investigate the data through the questionnaire survey of Chinese manufacturing enterprise environmental management system, and use SPSS software for the factor analysis, variance analysis and regression analysis methods to verify theoretical model assumption, in order to identifythe mechanism of environmental management system and enterprise performance.Results of empirical research strong support the construction of the theoretical model and relevant hypothesis:(1) The voluntary adoption drivers of ISO14001 environmental management system are not the significant factors affecting enterprise performance, the different implementation degree determines the significant difference of the firm performance.(2) Driving forces to the enterprise implementation of the different degree has significant effects.(3) The implementation degree of ISO14001 in different dimensions impact on enterprise performance.