Many business organizations are now paying attention to the
natural environment (Forbes and Jermier, 2010). Over the past 30
years environmental concerns have increasingly spread throughout
the body of environmental management literature (Harris and
Crane, 2002). The concepts of ‘management’ and ‘environmental
preservation’ have become essential to the business world due to
the emergence of new outlooks on environmental management
(Silva and Medeiros, 2004). In order to maintain and improve
the quality of the environment through preventing industrial
pollution, a paradigm change in conventional management to
environment management is necessary (Forbes and Jermier, 2010).
The adoption of environmental management and compliance with
environmental regulations can increase the productivity of, as well
as protect, the natural environment; “environmental management