<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wang, Xiaoling</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lin, Haiying</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Weber, Olaf</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Does Adoption of Management Standards Deliver Efficiency Gain in Firms’ Pursuit of Sustainability Performance? An Empirical Investigation of Chinese Manufacturing Firms</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SustainabilitySustainability</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">694</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8, 694</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1-18</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Building on longitudinal data from 73 Chinese manufacturing firms during 2009–2012,&lt;br/&gt;we assess whether and how firms gain higher efficiency in achieving their sustainability goals by&lt;br/&gt;adopting management practice standards (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and/or OHSAS 18001). We propose&lt;br/&gt;four pathways for firms to gain sustainability efficiency in their certification journey: participation,&lt;br/&gt;qualitative integration, quantitative expansion, and temporal accumulation. Our results confirm that&lt;br/&gt;firms certifying management standards gain higher efficiency in pursuing their sustainability goals&lt;br/&gt;than firms without these standards. We also find some support for increased efficiency effect in firms&lt;br/&gt;with diverse management systems over firms with only a single certificate in 2011. Finally, our results&lt;br/&gt;highlight the experiential and temporal accumulation effect of such efficiency gains, that is, firms with&lt;br/&gt;prior certification experience or having a longer certification history demonstrate higher efficiency&lt;br/&gt;gains in pursuing their sustainability goals.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>