6-Uncertainty about the Benefits:

6-Uncertainty about the Benefits: 

Most of the companies are not sure about the outcomes and benefits of EMS adoption and maintenance. Uncertainty about the benefits has been ranked on third 3.38 out of five on scale by respondent in a survey conducted by Babakri et al (2003 p 751). Adoption ISO standard can be boasted through incentives and rewards like reduction in tax, provision of soft loans. Such initiative definitely can result in improvement of product quality, reduction in cost, enhancement in company’s image, facilitation in non tariff trade barrier. Furthermore, implementation of EMS and maintenance can helpful to gain market share by attracting and gaining confidence of environment conscious buyers’ and builds pressure on competitors. Moreover, with sound environmental and business practices, not only the ties with insurance companies can be dealt with lower premium but also likewise benefits can improve the productivity and development of the organization (Quazi 1999).

As a supporting element Massoud et al (2010) points that the government agencies and institutes with financial assistance, provision of technical support, training and education, ease of capacity building are considered the significant aspects for positive impact.

Although, EMS is a voluntary, flexible system for the goodwill of the organization, yet its conformity is still a challenge for different countries even developed one like America, Japan. It is pointed that the ISO/TC207 is a willing to address the issues regarding EMS in future like changing corporate culture, theme of sustainable development, awareness about environmental issues and obstacles in implementation.

EMS basically provides foundation to identify the environmental aspects of the activities, products, processes and functions and their impacts on the environment, community and organization itself.

 Lawrence et al (2002) points that all environmental aspects has sound influence on aim and objectives of the organization set through corporate policy urge the top management to remain committed for continual improvement. However, it is argued that no technique is specifying for assessment and identification of aspects and their impacts.

. In addition, the elements as discussed in previous section as constraints have bad impact on the environment indirectly in terms of scarcity of EMS adoption by firms. Moreover, a significant point of EMS implementation is the identification of environmental aspect and investigation of its impact whether it is negative or positive. It is helpful in finalizing the objective and targets to prioritize the aspects (Zutshi and Sohal: 2004)