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Revista Salud Uninorte
versión impresa ISSN 0120-5552versión On-line ISSN 2011-7531
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ECHEVERRI FLOREZ, Heidi y PATERNINA URIBE, Roberth. Environmental maturity as a strategy for SME competitiveness in health sector. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2016, vol.32, n.2, pp.244-255. ISSN 0120-5552.
Abstract Objective: A scorecard of environmental management was developed for competitive strengthening of Small and Medium Enterprises -SMEs- in the health sector, building on the results that showed the application of a maturity environmental model and environmental characterization of the IPS participants. Materials and methods: For this, it applied an environmental measuring instrument 41 companies in the health sector of the city of Monteria (Córdoba, Colombia) randomly selected, this instrument was designed with content and construct validity, considering corporate environmental variables proposed by Wee - Quazi, for analysis reliability was used Cronbach 's alpha coefficient. Results: It defined optimal clustering of firms studied by common features through cluster method of multivariate analysis and found 8 groups of similarities between them. Conclusions: The model measures the maturity of environmental management systems obtained a Cronbach 's alpha of 99.3 %, which verifies its reliability for the analyzed IPS know what aspects are most relevant to implementing good environmental practices.
Palabras clave : environmental management; measuring instrument; environmental madurity.