“…The study of the diffusion phenomenon of MS standards is not new. Several authors have studied the diffusion of the ISO 9001 (Franceschini et al , 2004; Viadiu et al , 2006; Albuquerque et al , 2007; Chen and Liu, 2009; Cots and Casadesús, 2015; Marimon et al , 2009; Sampaio et al , 2011; Salgado et al , 2016), ISO 14001 (Albuquerque et al , 2007; Casadesús et al , 2008; Viadiu et al , 2006; Qi et al , 2011; Delmas and Montes-Sancho, 2011; Heras-Saizarbitoria et al , 2015; Hikichi et al , 2017; To and Lee, 2014), ISO/TS 16949 (Franceschini et al , 2011) and SA 8000 (Llach et al , 2015) standards. In addition, comparison of these generic MS standards with sectoral standards has been analyzed (Alonso-Almeida et al , 2013; Bernardo, Escalante, Roca and Arbussà, 2017).…”