Gestión ambiental empresarial en el sector de cuero en Bogotá como estrategia competitiva para ingresar al mercado europeo

Abstract

The production of leather in Colombia is one of the most important activities for the textile industry, since the country is characterized by a great cattle source which comes from the raw material for the sector of leather, footwear and leather goods, although not be very competitive, formed a cluster in the city of Bogotá comprising 30,000 formal companies in all the links of the productive chain. This industry is ranked as one of the most polluting in the city due to industrial processes that takes place, mainly in the tannery, where is the process of ribera, tanning, finishing in humid and dry finish that generates strong impacts envelopes water resources, effects on the soil and the air, also impacts on human health. The European Union has a great affinity with products that are responsible for the environment, and can be also noted that it has strict legislation for the entrance of textile products; According to this has been proposed to the sector improvement processes of the productive chain and the enforcement of environmental laws, to competitively enter the European Union. The lack of environmental management has prevented the sector to be competitive in the European Union, due to breach of the rules, requirements and environmental regulations in addition lack of management and corporate responsibility towards the production process, by the earlier, this paper seeks to address the environmental problems of the sector, parameterized on the factors of systemic competitiveness, micro-level, which includes the strengthening of the sector of leather at internal level, which deals with internal environmental policy, innovation, management and improvement in the supply chain, and the level of meso, comprising the externalities of the company, such as environmental legislation, strengthening incentives for the sector and public and private entities. From this, the approach of the research problem it will be qualitative and descriptive in order to conceptualize and define the environmental problem, in addition to emphasizing factors of systemic competitiveness at the level meso and micro.