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The impact of external environment, stakeholders’

pressures and environmental strategy on

environmental management control systems

Sophie Marquet-Pondevillea, Valérie Swaenb, Yves De Rongéb

a FUNDP - University of Namur, Faculté des Sciences économiques, sociales et de gestion, Rempart

de la Vierge 8, 5000 Namur, Belgium

bUniversité catholique de Louvain, IAG-Louvain School of Management, Place des Doyens 1, 1348

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Abstract

Our research aims at answering two major questions: (1) what are the

environmental management control systems that a manufacturing company can

develop and implement to follow up its environmental objectives? and (2) to what

extent some contextual and strategic factors influence the development and

implementation of these environmental management control systems? We present the

results of a survey of 256 manufacturing companies and their contemporary practices

with respect to environmental management. This survey has been analyzed using

PLS-graph.

Keywords

Environmental information system; formal environmental management control

systems; informal environmental management control systems; environmental

strategy; stakeholders’ pressures; environmental uncertainty; survey; PLS-approach.

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Introduction

Corporate environmental responsibility is today both a high profile notion

perceived as strategic in the business world and a prominent concept in academia.

The diffusion of environmental practices among corporations is notably due to the

traditional activity of pressures groups (Brammer & Milligton, 2003) but also to the

emergence of the ‘markets for virtues’, such as socially responsible investment, that

creates an effective commercial incentive to adopt environmental policies (Vogel,

2005). A growing number of companies are also recognizing the importance of

environmental threats such as the climatic change due to the warming of the earth’s

atmosphere and are developing strategies and programs to create products and

production processes more environmentally friendly. For instance, in recent years,

General Electric launched its environmental framework, started a Greenhouse Gas

Inventory and audited the Environment,

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