The practice of environmental management, reasons and motivations in a metal-mechanics company in Queretaro, Mexico

Abstract

The environmental management is a point of convergence between the economic interests and the environmental responsibility in an organization; this practice is strategic to achieve an industrial development that stimulates economic growth and generation of jobs, while it prevents and corrects environmental problems of their productive processes –overexploitation of natural capital, high levels of pollution and toxic waste generation, among others-. The aim of this paper is to analyse the environmental
management in a metal mechanic company. The methodological strategy is qualitative to study a medium company considerate as a prototype. The results provide enough evidence to verify that the organization has incorporated successfully the environmental management to its business model; their motivations are economic and the environmental responsibility goes beyond the regulatory compliance.