Strategic Importance Of Environmental Aspects In The Enterprises With ISO 14001

Abstract

Environmental issues are becoming increasingly important to compete in the International arena and enterprises are more concerned than ever on this topic due to the exigencies of diverse stakeholders. In this regard, taking into account particularly the demand of customer and environmental regulation in developed countries, environmental topics become almost mandatory in the improvement of products and process, from the design stage of these process or products to the end of its life. In this work we analyse if Basque firms with ISO 14001 certificate (apparently going ahead in environmental topics and in which these issues are supposed to have a greater relevance) have more or better organizational resources to apply this environmental demand. We also study if environmental issues become strategic target for these firms.