Breaking the link between quality and the environment: Auditing for sustainability and life cycle assessment
批判了将环境问题纳入质量管理的趋势,指出BS7750等标准忽视了可持续发展的广泛方面,主张改变企业文化、采用新审计方法、强调生命周期评估并加强环境立法。
Abstract This article outlines the trend in business towards the integration of environmental issues into quality management. It outlines how standards like BS7750 and the EU eco‐management and audit scheme are based on a paradigm which stresses environmental management as a continuous cycle of incremental improvement which ignores many of the wider aspects of sustainable development. In an attack on the dominant ideology surrounding environmental management the article stresses the need to change corporate cultures, to move towards new auditing methodologies, to put increasing stress on life‐cycle assessment, and to increase (and not deregulate) environmental legislation.