Drivers of productivity in Vietnamese SMEs: The role of management standards and innovation

Calza, Elisa; Goedhuys, Micheline; Trifković, Neda

doi:10.35188/unu-wider/2017/292-2

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“…These survey data have also been used by previous studies regarding SMEs in Vietnam (see e.g. Nguyen et al , 2019; Calza et al , 2019; Sharma and Tarp, 2018).…”

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Role of managerial traits in firm-level corruption: evidence from Vietnam

Ashyrov

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to examine the link between behavioural and personality traits of firm representatives and bribery in the case study of Vietnam; second, to study whether corruption is associated to firm performance through managers’ personality traits. Design/methodology/approach This study uses novel data from micro, small and medium firms in Vietnam for investigating the relationship between behavioural and personality traits of representatives of firms and bribery. Stratified sampling method is employed to ensure an adequate number of firms in each province with different ownership types. Ordinary least squares and logistic estimation techniques are used in this analysis. Findings This paper finds that traits of risk loving and innovativeness are positively associated to the likelihood of paying bribe whereas managers’ internal locus of control is negatively related to the probability of paying bribe. This paper reveals that managers, who have risk loving characteristics and get engaged to bribe payments, are related to lower firm performances. Research limitations/implications Despite the fact that this paper provides robust and statistically significant empirical analysis, results from this paper are constrained with use of cross-sectional survey data, which has been conducted in 2015. Although this paper can provide strong correlations, it does not establish causal linkages and one should therefore be careful in interpreting the observed patterns as causal impacts. Originality/value The role of managerial personality traits in corruption interactions has not yet been explicitly proposed and empirically investigated. This paper attempts to fill this void by examining the relationship between managerial traits and corruption tendencies among SMEs in Vietnam.

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“…These survey data have also been used by previous studies regarding SMEs in Vietnam (see e.g. Nguyen et al , 2019; Calza et al , 2019; Sharma and Tarp, 2018).…”

Section: Empirical Setting and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Role of managerial traits in firm-level corruption: evidence from Vietnam

Ashyrov

2019

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“…According to Carvalho et al (2017), there are two main approaches concerning companies' innovativeness. The former considers as innovative firms those that introduced innovation in recent years, thus focusing on innovation outputs or proxies such as patents (Calza et al , 2019; Carvalho et al , 2018; Keil et al , 2008). The latter considers innovativeness as a propensity to innovate or a set of capabilities that support companies' innovation such as creativity, strategy, knowledge, network and risk management (Forsman, 2011).…”

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Innovativeness and coopetition in tourism SMEs: comparing two coopetitive networks in Brazil

Carvalho

Cruz

Carvalho

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PurposeThis research aims to analyze the relations between coopetition and innovation, by comparing two coopetitive tourism SMEs networks in Brazil.Design/methodology/approachThe first network comprises 23 SMEs in Honey Island, a natural reserve, and the second network comprises 21 out of 25 SMEs in the Campos Gerais region, recognized by its strong agribusiness. Innovativeness variables included innovation inputs, capabilities, and outputs; and four types of relations that foster innovation were considered, namely, commercial, informational, knowledge, and partnerships. Social network analysis was employed as well as statistical analyses such as Kolmogorov–Smirnov, Mann–Whitney, Spearman correlation and Fischer's Z transformation.FindingsResults show that coopetition is related to SMEs innovativeness. Commercial relations centralities correlated with many innovation outputs, information and knowledge centralities with some innovation inputs and outputs, and partnerships also with capabilities.Research limitations/implicationsBesides contributing to the literature of innovation in tourism, this paper also contributes to the literature on coopetition and innovation by investigating how different types of coopetition relationships foster innovation inputs, capabilities, and outputs.Practical implicationsManagers may benefit from these findings by fostering specific innovation inputs, capabilities, or outputs by means of different coopetition relations. Similarly, regional tourism policy planners may also improve the innovativeness of tourism small businesses by fostering coopetition networks.Originality/valueThis paper not only compares the innovativeness of two small business coopetition networks in the tourism industry but also analyses quantitively in detail how different types of coopetition relations are related to different innovativeness variables.

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“…More innovative firms, that is, those that tend to invest in innovative activities, such as introducing new or modifying existing products or technologies, are found to be more likely to adopt standards (Calza et al 2019;Manders et al 2016). This relationship is not simple, as standards and innovation can have synergistic benefits, but may also compete for resources, which is why the interplay depends on the importance of signalling in the business model of the firm, firm motivation, the sector and the region in which the firm operates.…”

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Certification and Business Risk

Trifković¹

2020

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam

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This chapter investigates the scope for international private standards to play a role in reducing business risk among the small and medium enterprises in Vietnam. Business risk is measured as variability in revenue, variability in customer base, practice of making informal payments, and temporary firm closure. The results show lower levels of business risk among certified firms, especially for firms in the middle deciles of the risk distribution. This finding is robust to the use of different business risk measures. Certification also correlates negatively with risk for technologically advanced firms, as well as firms located in rural areas and northern provinces of Vietnam. The results suggest that firms could find protection from business downsides by investing in internationally recognized quality management tools.

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Drivers of productivity in Vietnamese SMEs: The role of management standards and innovation

Cited by 9 publications

References 47 publications

Role of managerial traits in firm-level corruption: evidence from Vietnam

Role of managerial traits in firm-level corruption: evidence from Vietnam

Innovativeness and coopetition in tourism SMEs: comparing two coopetitive networks in Brazil

Certification and Business Risk

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