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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Schaltegger, Stefan"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Application of Software and Web-based Tools for Sustainability Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
    (Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2014) Johnson, Matthew; Viere, Tobias; Schaltegger, Stefan; Halberstadt, Jantje
    Recently, new approaches to organizational level sustainability management and reporting have emerged in the form of software and web-based applications. At first glance, it appears that such software and web-tools are applicable in small and medium-sized enterprises since they offer userfriendly and cost-effective alternatives to implement, manage and report on company-wide sustainability activities. Nevertheless, it remains academically and practically uncertain if such technologies will be adopted by a great number of SMEs. Using the Technology-Organization- Environment (TOE) model as a theoretical framework and empirical data from a recent survey with 1,250 German SMEs, this paper investigates various firm-internal and external factors that might influence managers’ decisions to adopt or reject this new technology. As a result, this paper can help determine which factors play a role in the adoption of sustainability management software and web-tools in SMEs.
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    The Influence of Certified Environmental Management Systems on the Environmental and Economic Performance of Firms
    (Environmental Communication in the Information Society - Proceedings of the 16th Conference, 2002) Wagner, Marcus; Schaltegger, Stefan
    This paper studies if a certified environmental management system leads to significant improvements of environmental performance and economic performance. The analysis is based on data collected from financial databases, corporate environmental reports and emission inventories for firms in the paper manufacturing and electricity generation industries in the Netherlands, Italy, Germany and the UK. Based on this data set, the paper reports how EMS certification influences the environmental and economic performance of firms. The paper finds that two hypotheses formulated about the link between environmental management system certification and environmental and economic performance, as well as the relationship of the latter two are rejected. Based on the data analysed, it can therefore not be concluded that there is a statistically significant link between certification of environmental management systems on one side and environmental and economic performance on the other. The implications of this finding, particularly for environmental policy making as well as implications for government policy are discussed.