European environmental legislation in electronics and its potential impact on Far Eastern suppliers

Low, Ming Kaan; Williams, David J.

doi:10.1109/eptc.1998.756003

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“…Environment regulations make reverse logistics critical for operations where “take‐back” clauses will force purchase decisions based on transport logistics rather than cost. Low and Williams (1998) analysed cost and energy data from UK commercial freight carriers in the UK electronic industry, to conclude that there would be unintentional barriers created due to environment legislations as purchase decisions will be modified towards lowest procurement cost instead of earlier lowest manufacturing cost. Prendergast's (1995) primary survey of UK marketing executives from consumer goods firms to understand the relationship between packaging, environment and logistics, revealed that other than substantial cost increase as a direct effect of environment directives of producer pay principle, the respondents were concerned that logistical complexity under the environment directive would create trade barriers.…”

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“…The environmental impact of products and practices has become an important issue of debate and concern over the past few decades and through a combination of public pressure and government intervention in the form of legislations stakeholders (companies, institutions, consumers and others) are being forced to consider the environmental impact of their actions. Several studies conducted in the general area of regulatory impact since 1990s show significant direct impact of these regulations on economy and business which includes product and process redesign to include environment friendly materials and processes; systems for life cycle management in the form of waste management, recycling and reuse; and government structures and mechanisms to monitor compliance (Kim, 2002; Hug, 2001; Low and Williams, 1998; Jaffe et al , 1995; Rutledge and Vogan, 1994). However legislations have the potential to produce secondary and tertiary impacts on various stakeholders which are either not clearly visible or take time to show their influence (Economic and Social Research Council, 2004; Fraser et al , 2003; Griffin et al , 2001; Rosenzweig et al , 2001; Deudney and Mathew, 1999) and this holds true for environmental legislations as well.…”

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Environmental regulations

Gurtoo

Antony

2007

Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal

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PurposeThe purpose in this paper has been to draw from literature to understand the not‐so‐direct or non‐implicit impacts of environmental regulations and propose some consequences on economic and business activity. In more general terms this research facilitates understanding on the broad concerns about the consequences of environment legislations, that is, the nature and magnitude of their capacity to produce significant change in industry and business structures in the long run, through indirect and not‐so‐obvious routes.Design/methodology/approachThe discussion of the indirect and unintended consequences is based on systematic review of literature that includes studies in the area of international trade, technology, interactions at the national and regional level, industrial processes and dynamics, psychology, communication and organisational systems.FindingsReview evidence reveals indirect and unintended impacts at the levels of economy and industry such as unintended negative effects on the environment itself, discrimination and additional international trade barriers, evolution of new commercial structures like secondary and used goods markets and recycling and refurbishment as a new industry, need for secondary level legislative support, decreased entrepreneurship and small firm activity, and emergence of circular supply chain models and strategic‐collaborative inter firm competition models.Practical implicationsThe paper suggests possible future business and economic scenarios. Some of the possible models include emergence of a new industry in recycling and waste management, growth of secondary goods market for domestic consumption and trade, and emergence of a circular supply chain model where consumers and competitors play an interactive and collaborative role for survival and productivity. However it is imperative to empirically test these finds before generalisations.Originality/valueThe paper is a comprehensive review of an inadequately studied theme of indirect and unintended effects of environmental regulations. As environment issues become increasingly important it becomes more and more critical for both researchers and practitioners to understand what are these indirect impacts and the directions these indirect environment impacts will compel business and economies to move towards. It sets an agenda for future research.

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Environmental regulations

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2007

Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal

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“…Πνιιέο είλαη νη εξγαζίεο πνπ έρνπλ γίλεη ζηε ζπγθεθξηκέλε πεξηνρή φπνπ θαη απνηππψλνπλ ηα πιένλ εθαξκνδφκελα ζελάξηα ηειηθήο δηαρείξηζεο ζε δηάθνξεο πεξηνρέο ηνπ θφζκνπ (Boks et al, 1998, Babu et al, 2007, Wenzhi et al, 2006 ή πεξηγξάθνπλ ηηο επηπηψζεηο ηεο λνκνζεζίαο ζηηο επζχλεο πξνκεζεπηψλ θαη πειαηψλ (Low et al, 1998, Walther et al, 2005 θαζψο θαη ζην ζπλνιηθφ πξφβιεκα δηαρείξηζεο ηεο ζπγθεθξηκέλεο θαηεγνξίαο απνξξηκκάησλ (Toffel et al, 2008).…”

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