There is much evidence that good management practice is an important factor that positively affects firms' productivity around the world. However, little evidence on effect of management practices on Vietnamese firms has been drawn. This paper provides results of such a study. The quality of management activities is found to be poor and be positively related to the turnovers of firms, the ages of firms, the numbers of employees, investment capital, and human capital. Also, management practice scores change significantly according to the influencing factors including level of competition, degree of decentralization, types of ownership, types of customer firms are serving, advancement of export market, and types of product firms are selling.

Vietnam recently introduced a policy to promote climate-smart agricultural technologies (CSATs) to enhance farmer resilience and adaptation to climate change. This study sought to identify factors influencing the adoption and the continuation of CSATs adoption among smallholder farmers. The study surveyed 215 farmers in My Loi Village, Ha Tinh Province in North-Central Vietnam, where CSATs have been adopted and practiced since 2014. Logistic and ordinary least square regression models were applied to analyze the data. The results showed that attendance to training on CSATs, presence of a fellow farmer as a source of information, rice cultivation, farming experience and number of crops grown significantly influenced the adoption of CSATs. Farmer adoptions of CSATs, in contrast, were negatively influenced by more working men in the family and membership in a farming organization. The continuous adoption of CSATs was promoted by training, support from agriculture extension officers, upward mobility of farmers, farm ownership and the number of crops grown. Meanwhile, families with a larger number of male workers were less likely to continuously adopt CSATs. Policy-related recommendations were proposed to encourage farmers to adopt CSATs in the region. They included: (i) raising public awareness on CSATs through provision of high-quality information and training; (ii) enhancing technical assistance through the agricultural extension staff to all farmers, especially women; (iii) considering local context and smallholder farmer socioeconomic factors when developing climate-smart actions and programs.