| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 環境管理研究所 === 90 === ISO 14000 series as an environmental standard’s benchmark for excellence and a catalyst for improvement and success. ISO 14000 are becoming the practices for stakeholder quizzing the performance of environmental and financial, highlight both its strengths and weaknesses, in order to deliver tangible performances improvement for an organization. Every organization, no matter public and private or what its size, purchases goods and services. And, large organizations have considerable influence over the practices of their suppliers. As environmental purchasing practices have become more common in large organizations, the implications for companies in the supply chain have similarly increased. And, how can environmental purchasing practices that have produced tangible business benefits for a large number of companies worldwide, and being integrated with other environmental sound strategies, receive a great of challenge.
In this thesis, a support model which describing a relationship framework of environmental purchasing and ISO 14000 implementation, is presented. The Top 2000’s large organizations in Taiwan were surveyed which related to the topics of ISO 14000 implementation and promoting environmental purchasing. Related to the topic of ISO 14000, this support model showed an average acceptance in the part of departmental unit, staffing and expenses, which found in most of the environmental management issues of the organizations being studied. To the topic of environmental purchasing, the staffing and management-style of procurement department have delivered considerable implications to the model. Besides, different kind of industries also indicated variously conceptual in their daily purchasing context. As example, services industry showed remarkable concern of “sales of hazardous scrap and used materials” than manufacturing industry. Organizations with ISO 14000 certificated showed substantial concern to supplier chain relationships, such as “provide design specifications to suppliers that include environmental requirements for purchased items” and “company-wide environmental audits”. Size of registered capital, labor force and marketing segmental of organizations also indicated variously of conceptual in the procurement content, particular right in the context of “collaboration with suppliers to provide materials, equipment, parts, services that support environmental goals”, “environmental audits of suppliers” and “company-wide environmental audits”.
In this thesis, a support model which describing a relationship framework of environmental purchasing and ISO 14000 implementation, is presented. The Top 2000’s large organizations in Taiwan were surveyed which related to the topics of ISO 14000 implementation and promoting environmental purchasing. Related to the topic of ISO 14000, this support model showed an average acceptance in the part of departmental unit, staffing and expenses, which found in most of the environmental management issues of the organizations being studied. To the topic of environmental purchasing, the staffing and management-style of procurement department have delivered considerable implications to the model. Besides, different kind of industries also indicated variously conceptual in their daily purchasing context. As example, services industry showed remarkable concern of “sales of hazardous scrap and used materials” than manufacturing industry. Organizations with ISO 14000 certificated showed substantial concern to supplier chain relationships, such as “provide design specifications to suppliers that include environmental requirements for purchased items” and “company-wide environmental audits”. Size of registered capital, labor force and marketing segmental of organizations also indicated variously of conceptual in the procurement content, particular right in the context of “collaboration with suppliers to provide materials, equipment, parts, services that support environmental goals”, “environmental audits of suppliers” and “company-wide environmental audits”.
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