In Search Of ISO: An Institutional Perspective On The Adoption Of International Management Standards
- Topics:
- ISO Standards
- Tags:
- Adoption,
- Business Operations,
- ISO,
- Iso standards,
- Management Standard,
- Process Improvement,
- Quality,
- Standards
- Source:
- Stanford Knowledgebase
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Overview: This paper analyzes the determinants of the cross-national adoption of the international Environmental Management System standard ISO 14001 using a panel of 102 countries from 1996 to 2000. It uses new institutional economics to develop hypotheses on the impact of the institutional environment on the cost of adopting the management standard. A hypotheses was developed using the institutional sociology perspective to address the role of the institutional environment in affecting demand and legitimation processes related to the standard. The results of the statistical analysis show that both rationales of cost minimization and legitimation play a role in the adoption of the standard. Using both theories improves our understanding of institutional forces affecting the early adoption of emerging management standards. It is important to analyze the factors that explain the adoption of an international standard at its early stage, as they may differ from the factors that explain its later diffusion. Research has shown that imitation in the network of trade relations may play an important role in the adoption of management standards after several years.
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Format: PDF | Size: 161KB | Date: Feb 2003 | Pages: 53
