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Adoption of Environmental Management Systems by Farmers: An Empirical Application to ISO 14001

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Gilles Grolleau  and
Alban Thomas
Gilles Grolleau
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Supagro, Montpellier, France
Alban Thomas
Affiliation:
INRA and University of Toulouse, France
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Abstract

This article undertakes an empirical investigation of the determinants of voluntary adoption of the ISO 14001 environmental management system by French farmers. The adoption model incorporates the expected profitability of implementing the standard and investigates the impact of prior knowledge on the probability of adopting. Two information measures are considered: a “reported information” indicator and an “estimated knowledge” score. The probit parameter estimates reveal that, while the expected profitability of implementing the standard is a significant determinant of adoption, real and perceived prior knowledge measures play a significant but potentially counterintuitive role.

Keywords

environmental management systemISO 14001management-based approachprobit modelO33Q16Q29
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , December 2007 , pp. 523 - 540
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2007

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