The effect of the ISO-14001 environmental management system on corporate financial performance

International Journal of Business Excellence

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 210-230

  Zhao, Jiangning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic capabilities; EMS; Environmental Management System; financial performance; impact; ISO 14001; triple bottom line

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952038819     PISSN: 17560047     EISSN: 17560055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2008.017575     Document Type: Article

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33. The Restricted Group was also selected by defining matching portfolio for assets’ size (50%-200%) used in Corbett et al.’s (2005) study. This group is finalised as 63 ISO companies matched with 63 non-ISO companies (N = 126) with three dependent variables available.
34. The present study also conducted statistical analyses for the original group and restricted group. The results from the original group are the same as main group in both (T ± 2) and (T ± 3) periods. Between the main group and restricted group, the result is the same in (T ± 3) period, but different in (T ± 2) period on ROA (p = 0.0892).