Several factors can lead a company to adopt environmental
management practices (Berry and Rondinelli, 1998). According to
González-Benito (2006), stakeholder pressure is the main factor
driving organizations toward more advanced environmental
management. More advanced environmental management can
also improve a company’s financial performance (Molina-Azorin
et al., 2009) and increase the company’s manufacturing
competitiveness, promoting cost reductions, quality improvements
and the generation of new products and processes