The Greening Strategy of SMEs with Economical, Technical, and Environmental Viewpoints

Even though there are several differences and disadvantages for SMEs, there are also some advantageous aspects for them, including the possibility of adopting simpler life cycle engineering methods and avoiding organisational problems that are typical in large-sized company. They should make their own suitable strategies based on understanding the relation of economical, technical, and environmental aspects. The framework with economical, technical, and environmental aspects is an approach for analysing environmental activity of general organisations. Relative importance of three aspects is dependent on several conditions of company such as capital sufficiency, technical outstandingness, and strictness of governmental legislation. In any case all the three aspect should not be ignored; the temporal situation will be changed and three aspects ultimately act as basic axes for environmental management. The environmental decision support system (DSS) can be a relatively cheap and cost-effective tool to SMEs, to find the information flows to describe the requirement of decision support. The information is used for the environmental improvement of product systems, to support corporate policy detail targets via appropriate documentation and communication. The characteristics of DSS for small and larger organisations would be quite different, because the situation of problem is different. DSS for SMEs should be simple, act as information acquisition tool, and it must consider the technical side. For SMEs it is valuable to recommend to start an environmental design pilot project, to ask for external assistance, and to join forces horizontally as well as verticall