Correlation between technology management and environmental management in the companies

Abstract

This work analyzes the correlation between the technology management of products and processes and the environmental management, in manufacture companies. Leaving from a simplified conceptual model, and doing deployment of the dimensions technology management and environmental management, it was possible to analyze several concepts available in the literature for these fields, involving 78 manufacture companies, through "survey research project" and "qualitative research project", regarding also the technology capability of the organization through the new concepts of microtecnologia and macrotecnologia related in Silva (2003). It concluded that, inside the field searched of companies, there is a positive correlation between the levels of technology capability and environmental capability.

Technology; technology management; environmental management