“…Corbett and Kirsch, 2001;Gavronski et al, 2008;To and Lee, 2014) and the adoption of environmental management systems in various countries also increased during this time. These countries included the USA (Babakri et al, 2003), Slovenia ( Selih, 2007), Spain (Rodríguez et al, 2007(Rodríguez et al, , 2011, China (Hui et al, 2001;Zeng et al, 2005;Qi et al, 2011), Germany (Morrow and Rondinelli, 2002), Australia (Zutshi and Sohal, 2004), Turkey (Turk, 2009), Brazil ( Avila and Paiva, 2006;Pombo and Magrini, 2008;Gavronski et al, 2008;Campos, 2012;Trierweiller et al, 2013), Japan (Nakamura et al, 2001), among others.…”