Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

The integrated approach to environmental management has been adopted across countries to meet the economic and environmental demands for comprehensive management and sustainability. In 2017, South Korea has instituted Integrated Environment Permitting System(IEPS) to effectively regulate industry’s impacts on environment, promote technological innovation, and improve the cumbersome practices of environmental permits and licenses, following Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control(IPPC) in EU and Integrated Environmental Management Systems(IEMS) in US.

Assuming that policy instrument and policy understanding are related to policy evaluation and the effects are mediated between factors, this research examined the relationship of incentive, regulation, information and literacy to perceived effectiveness of integrated management by the regulated. Using Structural Equation Model(SEM) and Stepwise Regression with data from 115 enterprises which are required to obtain permits by the new management system, the findings indicate the non-mediated effects between factors and positive relationship with evaluation on the effectiveness of policy. the implications of these findings are further discussed and suggested to be in practice.