Grön företagsanalys - Ett ramverk för utvärdering av miljöintegrering

Sammanfattning: Purpose: To develop a model, questions and criteria that can be used to assess and benchmark the environmental management performance of firms. Delimitations: An evaluation is not supposed to take more than two weeks to conduct and prerequisites the companies’ full cooperation. Methods: Qualitative and quantitative data was collected from interviews, internal documents and literature studies to determine what aspects are most important when conducting an evaluation. After gathering the data a model was developed. Finally, the model was tested using two different companies to determine if the model was practical to use and if it could capture the essence of a client’s environmental management performance. Conclusion: A model that measures the level of corporate environmental integration needs to consider two aspects, firstly how large portion of a company that is covered by environmental management, secondly the environmental management’s ability to support value creation. A model with ten categories is put forward to measure the level of integration. The categories measures companies internal (i.e. the direct effect), and external (i.e. the indirect influence) environmental management performance. When used together the categories also evaluate the environmental management strategy and its ability to support firm’s value creation.