Implementing integrated management systems in chemical firms

Alexandra Simon · Mercè Bernardo · Stanislav Karapetrović · Martí Casadesús Fa

49 citations0/0 files storedTotal Quality Management & Business Excellence

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Quality and Management Systems Quality and Supply Management Management Systems and Quality Improvement

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to study how management system standards can be integrated into a single system in organisations from the chemical industry. Data for this study include a survey carried out in 76 organisations, registered with, at a minimum, both the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards for quality and environmental management, 17 of which were from the chemical industry. Additionally, six case studies are illustrated, revealing the process of integration of three chemical and three non-chemical organisations. The first conclusion to be drawn from this study is that organisations seem to prefer integration over keeping their management systems (MSs) separated, with these MSs evolving towards a state of complete integration. Although there are no significant differences between chemical and non-chemical firms regarding the benefits and difficulties of integration, the interviews and survey answers illustrated a number of benefits experienced by the companies from operating one integrated system, such as synergism promotion and cost savings for the firm, as well as a reduction of the time spent when managing the systems. However, some difficulties, such as the lack of human resources and the lack of employees' motivation, also arose during the integration process.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 49 citations exist upstream.

References

1984Case Study Research: Design and Methods 1991Case Study Research: Design and Methods 2006A synergetic model for implementing an integrated management system: an empirical study in China 1998Integration of quality and environmental management systems 2008How integrated are environmental, quality and other standardized management systems? An empirical study 2008Integrated management systems: experiences in Italian organizations 2005Integrated management system 2008Implementing environmental with other standardized management systems: Scope, sequence, time and integration

Cited by

2021Integrated Management Systems: their organizational impacts 2019Corporate social responsibility and financial profile of Spanish private hospitals 2013An empirical analysis of the integration of internal and external management system audits 2017Integrated management systems – interpretations, results, opportunities 2016Model based integration of management systems (MSs) – case study

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.