Implementing Proactive Environmental Management
Lessons Learned from Best Commercial Practice
ResearchPublished 2001
Like many large organizations, the Department of Defense (DoD) faces a serious challenge trying to balance core military, financial, and environmental goals. Over the last 15 years, DoD and other large, complex, global organizations have turned increasingly to proactive environmental management to balance such competing goals more successfully. Proactive approaches give organizations strategic flexibility but are difficult to implement. The authors first summarize how commercial firms have implemented proactive environmental management in weapon system design, logistics, base management, and environmental cleanup, then draw implications for DoD's environmental management efforts in these areas. The authors then propose an approach based on total quality management to define and monitor the details of this implementation effort.
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- Year: 2001
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Camm, Frank, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Beth E. Lachman, and Susan A. Resetar, Implementing Proactive Environmental Management: Lessons Learned from Best Commercial Practice, RAND Corporation, MR-1371-OSD, 2001. As of September 11, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1371.html
Camm, Frank, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Beth E. Lachman, and Susan A. Resetar, Implementing Proactive Environmental Management: Lessons Learned from Best Commercial Practice. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2001. https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1371.html. Also available in print form.
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