Have trends in corporate environmental management influenced companies' competitiveness?

Over the past sum of two units to three decades, corporate environmental management has gradually unraveled into a more mature discipline. Many companies have incorporated environmental considerations into their activities in order to eliminate or bring the impact of these activities upon the natural environment. The question is, however, whether managers perceive corporate environmental initiatives as a challenge leading to novel strategic options and, eventually, increased competitiveness, or whether they regard it as notwithstanding another burden. Based on a number of scans this paper discusses contemporary turns in the implementation of environmental management combination of parts to form a wholes in Danish industry up to the beginning of the