There is ample evidence in the literature by Chan, Ionescu-Somers, Rothenberg, and others indicating that above and beyond all other pursuits, achieving regulatory compliance is the primary and principal role of the environmental manager in industry. Markusson enriches the related body of knowledge by exploring the characteristic of “environmental championing,” defined as “any effort made by an (individual or collective) actor in a firm to promote environmental issues.” However, until fairly recently, there had been little that discussed
the professional goal of the environmental manager as an independent and commonly held meaning of the profession itself.