Application Of Integrated Management Systems In Entrepreneurship

Quality can be defined as a degree of authenticity when using a product or service. By development of technology there has been a development in system quality. By all general globalization the demands of consumers and the number of competitors have grown, there for initiation of system quality isn't considered a competitive advantage any more. By development of management system there was a need to merge more management systems in to one system – integrated management system. Integrated management system can be a combination of two or more management systems: Quality Management System (ISO 9001), Environmental Management System (ISO 14001), Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS 18001), Information Security Management System (ISO 27001), Energy Efficiency Management System (ISO 50001) and others. One of the most important fact for every organization is ensuring the quality and reliability of products, health, safety and satisfaction of employes, compliance of enviromentally friendly standards for environment, proving the safety of classified data and reducing energy consumption. Primary goal of paper is to show the frequency application of integrated management systems in Croatian companies practice. The other goal of paper is to show which are the management systems that are most often integrated in Croatian business practice. Qualitative research methodology was used in work while the informations were collected combined from primary and secondary sources. Two working hypotheses were set up based on analysis of the literature. First hypoteses is that the most companies in the Republic of Croatia with the instaled management system have implemented an integrated management system. The second hypoteses is that the most companies integrate Quality Management System (ISO 9001) and the Environmental Management System (ISO 14001). Introductory part of the work shows the short theoretical review on the most important management systems and the second part shows the research result of application of integrated management systems in the Republic of Croatia.