“…Crosby (1976) introduced the concept of quality management maturity as an element that helps managers understand the function of quality, and he stated that long-term activities must be planned, as well as the fact that the involvement of each person-and not just the quality managers-is essential. In this way, quality management has focused on looking for more efficient and effective processes (Juran, Gryna, and Bingham, 2005) and there are many practices that can be implemented, however, there is little information depicting which are more relevant than others in different contexts, therefore, it is important to be able to find "which practices should be emphasized by organizations at difference stages of QM maturity" (Sousa and Voss, 2002, p. 15) and consolidated a model for evaluation of the management system's maturity level (Sfreddo et al, 2018).…”