Purpose – Based on a sample of foreign-financed manufacturing firms in southern China, the purpose of this paper is to study the effects of ISO certification on productivity. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the stochastic frontier approach to estimate frontier efficiency...

Purpose – Based on a sample of foreign‐financed manufacturing firms in southern China, the purpose of this paper is to study the effects of ISO certification on productivity. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the stochastic frontier approach to estimate frontier efficiency...