Integrated Management Systems: Literature Review and Proposal of Instrument for Integration Assessment (original) (raw)

Standards facilitate the access to new markets because they reduce the divergences in management. The number of companies that have adopted global standards, such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 has increased in the last decade. The union of two or more standards is called Integrated Management System (IMS). The integration of standards is important because it improves communication, eliminates conflicts, reduces bureaucracy and costs, improves both decision-making process and resource util ization and promotes a better alignment with strategic planning. In this research, a Systematic Literature Review about Integrated Management System is firstly presented. It has the purpose of understanding what has being published in this area. After, a proposal of a tool is presented aiming at assessing the degree of integration of management systems based in the Maturity Model's Theory. Based on the Systematic Literature Review, few publications have been found and Spain is the country that has conducted more studies on such an issue. Although this number has increased since 2010, more research into IMS is necessary in other countries, especially on topics, such as performance evaluation, integration strategies, auditing and maturity of integration. It is expected that the tool presented in this research can help organizations to evaluate the degree of mature.

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