| MODELLING DRIVERS OF EXCELLENT ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PETER NEERGAARD, LARS GRONHOLDT, & ANNE MARTENSEN Issue 25 (Vol. 13 No. 1) pp. 75-85 Increasing stakeholder demands have resulted in environmental management becoming an important topic in management. But how do companies achieve significant improvements in their environmental management? This paper tries to identify and analyse factors that are crucial to achieve success in environmental management. A literature review provides a number of hypotheses for factors explaining environmental results. Some factors relate to the initiation of the environmental work. Other factors relate to managing environment in day-to-day business. A number of hypotheses are developed concerning the importance of each factor and they are tested in an empirical study. The empirical study consists of a survey based on answers from 199 Danish companies. The hypotheses are tested by logistic regression. The results show that the theoretical guidelines are followed and furthermore pave the way for achieving excellent results. Implications for improving environmental management and directions for future research are discussed. |