우리나라 제조기업의 환경경영시스템 도입에 대한 영향요인 연구

This research empirically investigated the influence factors on the adoption of environmental management systems(EMS) in Korean manufacturing firms. In this study, the external factors (cause factors), the internal factors (facilitatingfactors) and the firm specific characteristics were integrally considered. In the factor analysis, the third item (regionalsociety) of the external factors and the first item (environmental law) of government regulation were confounded withthe items of the other factors. Thus, the confounded items were removed. In the second factor analysis, no itemswere replicated. The results of a multiple regression analysis showed that the influence factors such as governmentregulation, normative pressure, top management support, environmental strategy and employees’ recognition, and ratioof large shareholders have a significant impact on the construction of EMS. However, the effects of the other firmspecific characteristics were not statistically significant. We also examined whether both the number of environmentalpersonnel and the allocation of environmental resources, which are directly related with the adoption of EMS, havea moderating impact on the relationships between other internal factors and the construction of EMS. With a subgroupanalysis, the moderating roles of the number of environmental personnel were empirically confirmed. Through a multipleregression analysis, the direct effects of the external factors on the adoption or construction of the internal factorswere demonstrated. The effects of government regulation, normative pressure and imitative pressure on the internalfactors were significant and positive. Finally, in this study, the fact that the adoption of EMS can improve the environmentalperformance of a firm was also empirically found.