Is your integrated management system really integrated?

How integrated are environmental, quality and other standardized management systems? An empirical study

“…In the same way, Pojasek [11] labels each of the levels, in accordance with the British Standards Institution (BSI) classification: ''Combined'' signifies ''separate MS are being used at the same time in the same organization'', ''integratable'' refers to the identification of common elements, ''integrating'' denotes the integration of these common elements and finally ''integrated'' means ''one system incorporating all common elements''.…”

“…According to Karapetrovic and Willborn [9] and Karapetrovic [10], an IMS is characterized by a complete loss of the unique identities of these subsystems and can be defined as a ''set of interconnected processes that share a pool of human, information, material, infrastructure, and financial resources in order to achieve a composite of goals related to the satisfaction of a variety of stakeholders''. For Pojasek [11], ''a genuinely integrated system is one that combines management systems using an employee focus, a process view, and a systems approach, that makes it possible to put all relevant management standard practices into a single system''. Combining these definitions, we can summarize integration as a process of linking different standardized MSs into a unique MS with common resources aiming to improve stakeholders' satisfaction.…”

The support of Quality Management to sustainable development: a literature review

“…The use of multiple MSs in a single business has created the need for organizations to explore an IMS where the overlapping or similar procedures, practices, and tools of various management systems could be applied more efficiently. Pojasek (2006;p. 96) defined the term 'integration' in this context as "a genuinely integrated system is one that combines various management systems using an employee focus, a process view, and a systems approach".…”

“…Further, an integrated management system is seen as one way to identify aspects of a QM system that could be supportive of sustainability in general. Aboulnaga, 1998;Bernardo et al, 2009Bernardo et al, , 2012de Oliveira, 2013;Fresner and Engelhardt, 2004;Jabbour, 2010;Jonker, 2000;Jørgensen et al, 2006;Karapetrovic and Casadesús, 2009;Karapetrovic and Willborn, 1998;Kuei and Lu, 2013;Li, 2013;Matias and Coelho, 2002;Matias and Coelho, 2011;Pojasek, 2006;Pun and Hui, 2002;Rebelo et al, 2014;Rocha et al, 2007;Rodríguez-Ant on et al, 2012;Salomone, 2008;Santos et al, 2011;Seghezzi, 2001;Simon et al, 2011;Tarí and Molina-Azorín, 2010;To et al, 2012;Dale, 1998, 1999a,b;von Ahsen and Funck, 2001;Zeng et al, 2007;Zeng et al, 2011 II. QM as support to environmental management system implementation and to managing sustainability (22 articles)…”

Integrated Management Systems: A Model for Maturity Assessment

“…The major obstacles and drawbacks concerning the IMSs implementation was a topic addressed by the work of Bernardo, Casadesús, Karapetrovic, and Heras ( 2012 ) and Beckmerhagen, Berg, Karapetrovic, and Willborn ( 2003a ). Karapetrovic ( 2002Karapetrovic ( , 2007, Karapetrovic and Casadesús ( 2009 ) and Sampaio, Saraiva, and Domingues ( 2012 ) discussed the strategies adopted during the implementation of an IMS, whereas the integration degrees were focused by Heras ( 2008 , 2012 ), Karapetrovic ( 2011 ), Jørgensen, Remmen, andMellado ( 2006 ) and Pojasek ( 2006 ). Models to integrate MSs were proposed, among others, by Karapetrovic and Willborn ( 1998 ), Renfrew and Muir ( 1998 ) and Zeng, Shi, and Lou ( 2007 ) and the specifi cs of the audit function were dissected by Beckmerhagen et al ( 2003b ), Bernardo, Casadesús, and Heras ( 2009), Domingues, Sampaio, and Arezes ( 2011, 2014a and Kraus and Grosskopf ( 2008 ).…”