What drives agrifood firms to register for an Environmental Management System?

Gilles Grolleau, Naoufel Mzoughi and Alban Thomas

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Abstract: This paper examines empirically which factors determine voluntary adoption of Environmental Management System (EMS) certification (ISO 14001 or EMAS) by agrifood industries. A discrete-choice model of EMS certification is applied to a sample of 1,000 French agrifood firms. The findings suggest that management-related factors drive certification more strongly than economic incentives and provides a new perspective on Porter's theory of the double benefit of certification.

Keywords: ECONOMIC POLICY; KNOWLEDGE; GROWTH; EDUCATION; EMAS; AGRIFOOD INDUSTRIES; ENVIRONMENT; ISO 14001 CERTIFICATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 34 (2), pp.233-255. ⟨10.1093/erae/jbm012⟩

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DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbm012

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