International Journal of Quality Innovation

Korean Society for Quality Management (한국품질경영학회)
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A Study of Environmental Management Investment Allocation

  • Tien, Shiaw-Wen (Graduate Institute of Technology Management Chung-Hua University) ;
  • Chang, Ting-Ting (Department of Industrial Management Lunghwa University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Chung, Yi-Chan (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Ta-Hwa Institute of Technology) ;
  • Chen, Ching-Piao (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Ta-Hwa Institute of Technology) ;
  • Tsai, Chih-Hung (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Ta-Hwa Institute of Technology)
  • Published : 2008.08.31
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Abstract

The $21^{st}$ century is a new century of environmental protection. Environmental protection is one of the most important subject matters yet to come. Moreover, as the public pays more attention to environmental problems, enterprises should increase their investment in environmental management. Therefore, determining the investment level for environmental management and allocating the investment to associated environmental management activities has become a major task. The principal and agent theory and sales response functions are used for analysis in this research. The allocation of capital investment in environmental management is found to have significant impact on the aggregate sales response, aggregate profit and investment level. Therefore, in preparing the budget for environmental management, enterprises should focus on investment allocation decisions, determine the investment level and allocation method using integrated means, and apply submarket data in the allocation decision-making process. In other words, in setting the investment level, executive management should take managers' willingness into consideration. In allocating capital investment, managers should identify the optimal allocation method based on submarket characteristics.

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