Indicators for evaluating green management practice of enterprises

Title : Indicators for evaluating green management practice of enterprises

Abstract:

It is recognized that enterprises occupy about 50% of the total pollution/destruction of nature which is termed an environmental problem. Enterprises have been the major contributors to environmental problems through their management system for maximizing profit with less consideration of their impacts on nature. Ironically, enterprises have become victims of environmental problems. The examples are that environmental problems are making it increasingly difficult for enterprises to secure resources and are driving up production cost. Such a conflicting situation with which enterprises are faced is termed the paradox of enterprise. Green management is a new strategy of enterprises to integrate environmental sustainability into their business management.

In the above context, this paper aims to develop a set of indicators for evaluating green management practice of enterprises. In order to achieve the objective, this paper will be organized into four sections as below.

• Section 1: The mechanisms of nature being polluted/destroyed by enterprises will be explained in terms of three processes – extracting resources, producing goods and services, and distributing goods and services.
• Section 2: <What Green Management Is> will be examined from five key aspects. They are its definition, strategies for its promotion, the roles of government in vitalizing it, and the benefits enterprises can derive from it.
• Section 3: <What Indicator Is> will be explained. The explanation will cover the definition, the characteristics, and the roles of indicator.
• Section 4: <Indicators for evaluating green management practice> will be developed. The proposed evaluation indicators will be classified into five categories. They are the indicators related to green management strategy, green management system, social and ethical responsibility, saving resource/energy, and the emission of greenhouse gas/environmental pollution.

Biography:

Dr. Dai-Yeun Jeong is presently the Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center and an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea). He received BA and MA Degree in Sociology from Korea University, and PhD in Environmental Sociology from University of Queensland (Australia). He was a Professor of environmental sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea) from 1981 to 2012. His past major professional activities include a Teaching Professor at University of Sheffield in UK, the President of Asia-Pacific Sociological Association, a Delegate of South Korean Government to UNFCCC and OECD Environmental Meeting, etc. He has published 13 books including Environmental Sociology.