AD Sarode
VS Bhaskarwar
Abstract
With the rise in the public concern on environmental protection, more Indian industries startto apply environmental managementfor their activities. As a result, an Environmental management system has needed to be implemented in Indian industries. The literature has indicated various sets ofrequirements for corporate environmental management in Indian industries. But no study has yet identified and statistically established the reliability and validity ofa set ofcriticalfactors for Indian industries. This paper aims to develop and validate a set ofcritical factors of environmental management. Using a thorough synthesis of the environmental management literature the authors identified a set ofcritical factors. Performance measures for each of these factors were developed through literature review. A survey methodology was used; statisticalcomputing package Minitab 16 is used to establish reliability and validity.
Keywords- Environmental management system, Criticalfactors, Performance measures.