Integration of management systems: towards a sustained success and development of organizations

Rebelo, Manuel Ferreira; Santos, Gilberto; Silva, Rui

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.04.011

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“…Asif et al (2009) present a methodology to achieve excellence in which the integration of MSs is a key step. Rebelo et al (2014aRebelo et al ( , 2014bRebelo et al ( , 2016) also propose a model with the aim of improving the organizations' competitiveness, value added and sustainable success.…”

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A qualitative study on integrated management systems in a non-leading country in certifications

Bernardo

Gotzamani

Vouzas

et al. 2016

Total Quality Management & Business Excellence

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The aim of this study is to analyze the integration of management systems in a country with low certifications number and growth rate and propose a research agenda towards improving the competitiveness of organizations that implement multiple management systems. The main research questions focuses on the implementation process itself and the effect of low level of national certification to the integration process. To serve this research purpose, an exploratory research is designed in Greece (a country with relatively low certification counts and rates to the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 management standards). A case study approach is employed to enable deeper and comprehensive reasoning. A cross-case analysis is presented to explore patterns, similarities and differences among organizations. Findings show that 4 out of 5 organizations analyzed are integrating its management systems at different levels, the integration methodology applied is similar for all organizations but audits are the most dissimilar aspect. This study is one of the first that addresses management systems' integration in Greece exploring contingency factors.Keywords: Audits, Greece, integration of management systems, ISO 9001, ISO 14001. IntroductionOver the past two decades, there was an enormous increase of management systems (MSs) standards certification, especially across Europe and Asia (see ISO, 2015). The most widespread Empirical research has focused mainly on the process of integration analyzing different aspects, including but not limited to the design and implementation of organization's integration strategy (Bernardo et al., 2012a;Mohannad et al., 2013), the integration methodology organizations use (Rebelo et al., 2014a(Rebelo et al., , 2014bGarengo and Biazzo, 2013;Kauppila et al., 2015), the current level of integration (Bernardo et al., 2009;Abad et al., 2014;Mezinska et al., 2015), and the integration of MSs' audits (Bernardo et al., 2010;Simon et al., 2014;Hoy and Foley, 2015). This research has been done, in majority, using surveys in those countries with a high level of certificates (Douglas and Glen, 2000;Bernardo et al., 2009;Abad et al., 2014; among others).Taking all the above into account, the purpose of this research is to shift focus to a country that is ranked moderately low in terms of MS certifications. To this end, Greece is selected as the 2 representative country being less advanced in terms of IMS research and ISO certifications compared to over-researched and high certification rated countries, such as Spain or UK. Five Greek case organizations are selected and analyzed qualitatively with respect to the main integration aspects, i.e., the integration strategy and methodology, the integration level and the integration of audits. Furthermore, IMS maintenance and evolution avenues are discussed and future research agenda is proposed to improve the competitiveness of the organizations via integrating their MSs. To better illustrate this research objectives the following research questions The "integration str...

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A qualitative study on integrated management systems in a non-leading country in certifications

Bernardo

Gotzamani

Vouzas

et al. 2016

Total Quality Management & Business Excellence

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“…The analysis of scientific literature on qualimetry revealed [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] that it is not acceptable for QMS assessment to apply existing methods of evaluation due to various reasons:…”

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“…The proposed approaches to the development of quality management systems are constantly evolving [12], the tools and management methods are developing, information technologies are progressing, as well as communication systems, new management concepts emerge and rapidly spread [13], however there appears the necessity of solving a scientific and practical task of developing a methodology for assessing QMS as the object of qualimetry.…”

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“…As a result of the analysis of existing studies [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16], one can conclude that for the development of methodology of quantitative assessment of the processes of quality management system of enterprises, it is necessary to look for dependencies, which would take into account the above mentioned drawbacks.…”

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Development of qualimetric approaches to the processes of quality management system at enterprises according to international standards of the ISO 9000 series

Trisch

Gorbenko

Доценко

et al. 2016

EEJET

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“…There is unprecedented demand for sustainability, and the implementation of management systems (MS) and lean manufacturing systems (LMS) is trending; however, organizations have faced difficulties in managing them and their respective tools, mainly in the integration between such systems [6]. For some authors, the integrated management system (IMS) can conduct companies to sustained success [7]; however, companies still face remarkable difficulties in operating multiple MS simultaneously [8]. Instruments to implement strategies and manage CS are still rare [9]; the IMS may provide foundation to corporate social responsibility (CSR), nevertheless the current literature on the integration of CSR into business processes remains limited and requires further research discussed in practice [10].…”

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Lean Integrated Management System: A Model for Sustainability Improvement

Souza¹,

Alves²

2018

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This paper presents an innovative model to improve corporate sustainability via the integration of Quality, Environment, Social Responsibility and Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems with the Lean Manufacturing System; this may help organizations to improve corporate sustainability in a structured manner. This research introduces the Lean-Integrated Management System for Sustainability Improvement -LIMSSI, which is based on the rational use of resources and energy, while engaging and empowering people. It was structured considering the difficulties of organizations in performing sustainability-improvement activities, avoiding loss of organizational efficiency due to waste, duplication, and increments of bureaucratic processes, to generate synergies. The LIMSSI may improve corporate sustainability performance, rendering companies more sustainable and competitive.

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Integration of management systems: towards a sustained success and development of organizations

Cited by 124 publications

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A qualitative study on integrated management systems in a non-leading country in certifications

A qualitative study on integrated management systems in a non-leading country in certifications

Development of qualimetric approaches to the processes of quality management system at enterprises according to international standards of the ISO 9000 series

Lean Integrated Management System: A Model for Sustainability Improvement

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