The common reimbursement time on an investment in an EMS is lower than two years. Legal compliance tends to be difficult to implement, however on the other hand it works properly in every day practice. To develop an EMS into a sustainability management system, the two most important challenges are to enhance coordination between the EMS and the organization’s strategies and to synchronize the EMS with central value chains.
In 1980 in The Third Wave, Toffler characterised this shift to relentless change as the defining characteristic of the third section of civilization . Markets pushed by technical requirements or by “network effects” may give the dominant agency a near-monopoly. The similar is true of networked industries in which interoperability requires compatibility between customers.
The British and US industries are in different phases of maturity in figuring out and responding to sustainability. Some UK retailers have begun growing broad-based accountability techniques …