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Manuscript type: Research paper. Research aims: This study aims to investigate the impact of institutional distance between home and host countries on the choice of multinational enterprise's (MNE) entry mode into Vietnam. Design/ Methodology/ Approach: Transaction cost theory was adopted to develop the hypotheses. The data of 82 MNE subsidiaries located in Vietnam were extracted from the World Bank Enterprise Survey. Probit regression was employed to estimate the impact of the institutional distance between home and host countries on the choice of the MNE's entry mode. Research findings: The empirical results support the hypotheses, revealing that MNEs are more likely to enter Vietnam via acquisition

This study is aiming to identify profit efficiency and its determinants among peanut farming households in Tra Vinh province, Vietnam, based on the data collected from 182 peanut farming households in three districts of Tra Vinh province. The Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier profit function incorporating profit inefficiency effects was employed to analyze the data, using the Frontier 4.1. The results revealed that the profit efficiency was ranged between 29.80 to 96.76 percent, an average of 59.06 percent. Significant factors that were found negative affect the peanut farm profit were prices of fertilizer, pesticide, wage rate; whereas, the price of seed and land area (fixed factor) were found negative effect the peanut farm profit. Significant determinants that were found positive effect the profit efficiency of peanut farmers were gender, education attainment, peanut farming experience, farm size, credit access, training, and farmer’s association membership.