title: Time compression diseconomies in environmental management: the effect of assimilation on environmental performance.
abstract: This research addresses the relationship between an organisation's assimilation of its environmental management system (EMS), the experience it gains through it, and its environmental performance. Assimilation here refers to the degree to which the requirements of the management standard are integrated within a plant's daily operations. Basing ourselves on the heterogeneity of organisations, we argue that assimilation and experience will inform environmental performance. Furthermore, we posit that the relationship between assimilation and environmental performance depends on experience. The attempt to obtain greater assimilation in a shorter time leads an organisation to record a poorer environmental outcome, which we shall refer to as time compression diseconomies in environmental management. We provide empirical evidence based on 154 plants pertaining to firms in Spain subject to the European Union's CO2 Emissions Trading System.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Salamanca, Facultad de Economia y Empresa, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain. Electronic address: lannelongue@usal.es.
authors.forename: Gustavo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lannelongue
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Salamanca, Facultad de Economia y Empresa, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain.
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gonzalez-Benito
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Salamanca, Facultad de Economia y Empresa, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain.
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gonzalez-Benito
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Salamanca, Facultad de Economia y Empresa, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain.
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gonzalez-Zapatero
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004777:Environment; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D058735:Environmental Policy; D005062:European Union; D006801:Humans; D013030:Spain; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Assimilation; EMS; Environmental management; Experience; Time compression diseconomy