Beyond Compliance

• Date: November 04, 2009
• Source: blogs.harvardbusines

Corporate understanding of green compliance has been limited to complying with the regulations prescribed by the binding government agencies. They saw to it that their processes kept emissions well under the mandate or limit or eliminate the use of banned substances in their products.

Current trends in green compliance have seen corporate do things beyond the mandate. Environment friendly initiatives are finding its way into core corporate strategies. General awareness among the end users is also setting trends for companies to rework their conduct of business with more eco sense.

Corporate initiatives are driving the enforcement of regulations with more vigor. Any demand from the end user affects the entire chain of stakeholders. These trends are also helping government agencies in re-looking at their existing regulations or bring in better regulations.

More on this, with illustrations from the corporate world that has brought about this change, read on

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/leadinggreen/2008/08/what-compliance-means-now.html