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Superior environmental, health, and safety performance: What is it?
Author(s) -
MacLean Richard
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
environmental quality management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6483
pISSN - 1088-1913
DOI - 10.1002/tqem.10105
Subject(s) - citation , environmental quality , library science , state (computer science) , competitive advantage , operations research , sociology , computer science , business , political science , marketing , engineering , law , algorithm
ecutive or stock analyst “What are the best performing corporations, and why?” and they will immediately respond with the names of companies that have superior results, based on a handful of financial parameters. Price-to-earnings ratio, return on equity, total shareholder return, beta, and so on are universal corporate benchmarks. Indeed, definitive, comparative profiles of corporations can be summarized on a single page—in, for instance, reports by Morningstar, ValueLine, Thompson, and Hoovers. Lists of the “Top 100” and “category kings” appear in publications such as Fortune and the Wall Street Journal with only a few columns to differentiate “winners and losers.” Environmental, health, and safety (EHS) performance is an entirely different matter, however. Just what is superior environmental, health, and safety performance?