Firm exporting and productivity: what if productivity is no longer a black box

Vu, Ho; Holmes, Mark J.; Tran, Tuyen Quang; Lim, Steven

doi:10.1080/1406099x.2016.1187382

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“…Figure 8 is a chord diagram illustrating how papers on organizational management are linked to those on other topics. These studies highlight the heavy reliance of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on financial capital, so much that capital constraint was seen as the biggest concern for enterprises (Thu Hien & Santarelli, 2014;Tran, Abbott, & Yap, 2017;Vu, Holmes, Tran, & Lim, 2016). Beyond the financial capital required for entrepreneurship, nonfinancial resources also received positive attention among researchers.…”

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Multi-faceted insights of entrepreneurship facing a fast-growing economy: A literature review

Vuong

Hoang

et al. 2020

Open Economics

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This study explores entrepreneurship research in Vietnam, a lower-middle-income country in Southeast Asia that has witnessed rapid economic growth since the 1990s but has nonetheless been absent in the relevant Western-centric literature. Using an exclusively developed software, the study presents a structured dataset on entrepreneurship research in Vietnam from 2008 to 2018, highlighting: low research output, low creativity level, inattention to entrepreneurship theories, and instead, a focus on practical business matters. The scholarship remains limited due to the detachment between the academic and entrepreneur communities. More important are the findings that Vietnamese research on entrepreneurship, still in its infancy, diverges significantly from those in developed and emerging economies in terms of their content and methods. These studies are contextualized to a large extent to reflect the concerns of a developing economy still burdened by the high financial and nonfinancial costs.

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Section: Research Topicsmentioning

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Multi-faceted insights of entrepreneurship facing a fast-growing economy: A literature review

Vuong

Hoang

et al. 2020

Open Economics

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“…A negative impact of imports on employment can be explained as follow. The Vietnamese economy is numerically dominated by SMEs, with 96% of the total number of enterprises that typically have limited technology and a low level of development (Cuong, Sang, & Anh, 2007;Doan, Nguyen, Vu, Tran, & Lim, 2016;Vu, Holmes, Tran, & Lim, 2016)). As a result, cheap imports with similar technology, especially from China, may create intensified competition within industries, and Vietnamese firms face higher direct competition Table 3.…”

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Does rising import competition harm Vietnam’s local firm employment of the 2000s?

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Van

Nguyen

et al. 2017

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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This study considers for the first time the role of rising import competition on employment in Vietnam. Using a time differenced and instrumental variables approach, our study shows that import competition results in employment contraction. Firms operating in industries that face greater import competition have reduced employment. We also find strong evidence of a negative impact of import competition for small and very small firms, as well as in the period before Vietnam's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. Our results also reveal that previous studies at the industry-level can provide biased estimates because of not controlling for the heterogeneity of firm characteristics.

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“…Small-and medium-sized enterprises are dominant and essential subjects within the Vietnamese economy. SMEs amount to about 90% in 2000-2008, even 97% in 2008 of the total enterprises in Vietnam (Vu et al, 2016). Moreover, SMEs play considerable roles for the economy (Hung, 2007;Trung et al, 2009;Kokko & Sjöholm, 2005).…”

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Human Resource Management Practices and Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam

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Dung²,

Phuong³

et al. 2016

SSRN Journal

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Using a panel sample of manufacturing firms from small-and medium-sized enterprise surveys between 2009 and 2013, we estimate the causal effects on firm outcomes of human resource management practices at the firm level in Vietnam. Employing a fixed-effects framework for the estimation, we find that on average a firm that provides the training for new workers gains roughly 13.7%, 10% and 14.9% higher in output value per worker, value added per worker and gross profit per worker respectively than the counterpart. Moreover, an additional ten-day training duration for new employees on average leads to 4.1% increase in output value per worker, 3.0% rise in value added per worker and 3.0% growth in gross profit per worker. We also uncover that a marginal 10% of HRM spending results in about 2% and 1.6% rises in output value per worker and value added per worker, respectively. Nevertheless, we find no statistically significant impacts of incentive measure on firm outcomes. The estimated results are strongly robust to various specifications.

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Firm exporting and productivity: what if productivity is no longer a black box

Cited by 35 publications

References 47 publications

Multi-faceted insights of entrepreneurship facing a fast-growing economy: A literature review

Multi-faceted insights of entrepreneurship facing a fast-growing economy: A literature review

Does rising import competition harm Vietnam’s local firm employment of the 2000s?

Human Resource Management Practices and Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam

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