Green financing for sustainable development: Insights from multiple cases of Vietnamese commercial banks

Abstract

Although the public sector is seen as the main party responsible for taking action on climate change and sustainable development, private commercial banks are in a unique position to support or shift the funding focus on green investment. By employing a qualitative research approach based on six commercial banks, this paper aims to investigate the current practices of how commercial banks are contributing to advance green business initiatives. Accordingly, this research examines and identifies the facilitators and challenges in domestic and foreign commercial banks in Vietnam which support green business initiatives. In addition to addressing the recent calls for the investigation of the role of commercial banks in facilitating green finance, our study expands the emerging literature by demonstrating the current efforts of Vietnam's commercial banks in fostering green finance during the Covid‐19 pandemic.

Business intelligence and analytic (BIA) stage-of-practice in micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs)

“…To enhance reliability in the data analysis and support the investigation of theory from empirical data via valid interpretation (Glaser and Strauss, 1967;Nguyen et al, 2022a), two authors collected and interpreted data while other researchers conducted the data analytical distance. This approach is made to ensure a balance between the distance from and the closeness of data analysis.…”

“…Thus, the case studies research approach is ideally suited to expanding the managerial theoretical boundary (Hoang et al ., 2021). Finally, the employment of the multiple case studies approach can generate more convincing insights due to the findings drawn intensely from multiple pieces of empirical evidence (Ramanathan et al ., 2017; Nguyen et al ., 2022a). Therefore, multiple research cases enable the broader investigation of the phenomenon and the theoretical evolution.…”

“…This study intends to shed light on how MSMEs tackle the BIA adoption in the context of MSMEs. To this end, we employ the multiple case research design and interpretivism approach for expanding the theoretical boundary of the "strategic management field" in BIA adoption in MSMEs by providing "ground-breaking insights" (Gibbert et al, 2008(Gibbert et al, , p. 1465Nguyen et al, 2022a). The adoption of an interpretivism philosophy allows a greater level of in-depth investigation of intertwined practical factors regarding the adoption of BIA in MSMEs.…”

Blockchain technology applications in retail branding: Insights from retailers in the developing world

“…In order to examine the impacts of blockchain implementation in retailers on brand communication, customer experience, and retail‐customer relationship, we developed a novel research to study the breadth and depth of contextuality of developing countries (Gioia et al, 2013; Nguyen et al, 2022), as well as gathering and analyzing empirical data that spans across many retailers. Our data were collected from both 21 experienced senior managers through in‐depth interviews and also 21 customers of blockchain adoption retailers through 3 focus group discussions.…”

“…This exploratory research comprises four cases of retailers, all of which gradually implemented a blockchain application in their operation. The implementation of multiple cases research design enhances the generalization of our research result rather than the adoption of a single case study (Eisenhardt & Graebner, 2007; Nguyen et al, 2022). Another benefit resulting from the use of multiple cases is the possibility of comparing results from a variety of contexts to expand the theoretical boundary beyond a single case (Gibbert et al, 2008).…”