The Effecting Factors for Implementing Proactive Environmental Management in Taiwan’s Steel Industry

• Main Authors: Fu Wen-Yen, 傅文淵
• Other Authors: Kao Ming-Rea
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1999
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01237333390553867536

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 企業管理學系 === 87 === Steel industry is characterized with the features of capital and technical intensity, with heavy energy consumption and heavy pollutants. Responding to the global environmental concerns increasingly and many enterprises are integrating their production and marketing into greening business. The issue ” how to reduce the impacts of environment through the improvement of equipment and processes” become a strict challenge for Steel industry. Steel industry has to operate a series of effective strategic management to make the balance between environmental protection and business survival. The steel industry is one of the most important and basic businesses for economic development. This study explored the effecting factors for steel enterprises to implement proactive environmental management, the motives why they practice them. It also compared the difference in each variable among the company and the correlation between key factors. This research was conducted through a mail questionnaire from April to May 1999. By purposive sampling, 133 steel enterprises which capital is more than 60 millions NT$ were drawn from the list published by China Credit Information Service, Ltd.. 51 enterprises had returned effective questionnaires and the return rate was 44.36%. The results are summarized below: 1.The greening actions relating with the proactive environmental management most frequently implemented are: office environmental activities, establishing waste recycle and reuse procedures, conducting environmental training courses for employees. The actions such as, environmental(green) accounting system, ISO 14001 certificate applying and product life cycle assessment for enterprises were implemented occasionally. 2.Under different production processes, scale of enterprises, setting responsible department or not and receiving ISO 9000 series certificate or not that reaches significance level among the actions related with the proactive environmental management, corporate culture and environmental driving forces. 3.By Factor Analysis, there are three key factors effecting the corporate culture, namely, top management support, environmental value and employee’s environmental cognition. There are three key factors as well effecting the driving forces of proactive environmental management, namely, stakeholders’ forces, regulatory demands and competitive requirements. 4.The Pearson’s Correlation Analysis results is shown as following : The employee’s environmental cognition has positive correlation, but, which did not reach significance level with the proactive environmental management. The top management support, environmental value, stakeholders’ forces, regulatory demands and competitive requirements have positive correlation which reaches significance level. 5.Steel industry will face the severe potential impacts of Framework on Climate Change in the next decade, enterprises have to prepare corresponding countermeasures, through energy saving, equipment and processes improving, innovative technology, waste reduction、 recycle and reuse, and pollution preventive ,etc., in order to reach enterprises survival and sustainable development.