There is a common- ality among envi- ronmental and qual- ity management programs in indus- try. The study dis- cussed in this article examines the rela- tionship between quality management and environmental man- agement, with a particular interest in environ- mental management systems and support for en- vironmental management practices within Chinese organizations of various sizes. We find support for the basic hypothesis that there is a relationship between whether organiza- tions have quality-based programs and their sup- port or adoption of environmental management practices, and that the strength of this relation- ship depends on the size of the organization. Quality Management and Environmental Management Development of QM and EM Since the mid- to late 1970s, organizations have been paying much attention to quality management (QM) in order to maintain and improve competitiveness. Reflecting this acceptance of quality practices at the international level, by the end of 2000, 350,000 entities throughout the world had re- ceived ISO 9000 certification (Matias & Coelho, 2002). Environmental Quality Management / Spring 2004 / 53 © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/tqem.20004 Qinghua Zhu and Joseph Sarkis The Link between Quality Management and Environmental Management in Firms of Differing Size: An Analysis of Organizations in China Different-sized organizations exhibit different QM/EM relationships