The Political Economy of Industrial Development in Viet Nam

Vu-Thanh, Tu-Anh

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198796954.003.0009

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“…The country's gradual transformation to a market economy is reflected in the shift from heavy industry to light industry, such as apparel, food and beverages, leather and wood products [46,47]. Currently, light and heavy industrial products and handicraft goods constitute 85% of total export value [48].…”

Section: Industrialization and Associated Environmental Problemsmentioning

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Greening Industry in Vietnam: Environmental Management Standards and Resource Efficiency in SMEs

Fadly

2020

Sustainability

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Over the past decade, enterprises have sought to minimize their ecological footprints through cleaner production strategies. Evidence can be gathered to support either the view that adopting environmental management standards (EMS) is a cost burden on firms and is detrimental to competitiveness, or that adopting standards increases savings giving firms competitive advantage in the long run. To resolve this seeming paradox in an emerging country context, the relationship between adopting EMS certificate and resource efficiency is examined empirically using a panel sample of 1333 manufacturing SMEs in Vietnam for the (2011–2013) period. Applying an instrumental variable approach, the results indicate that certification leads to resource savings reflected by less use of electricity, fuel and water for each unit of output. Additionally, there is a heterogeneous effect of certification on the extent of resource saving depending on the sector of operation. The paper also highlights determinants of certificate adoption among SMEs which should be considered in the promotion of environmental certificates, especially in developing countries. To successfully roll out the adoption of environmental certificates on a larger scale, better knowledge among business owners on potential competitive and environmental sustainability gains from EMS must be disseminated.

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Section: Industrialization and Associated Environmental Problemsmentioning

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Greening Industry in Vietnam: Environmental Management Standards and Resource Efficiency in SMEs

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2020

Sustainability

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Export incentives, domestic mobilization, & labor reforms

Evans

2020

Review of International Political Economy

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Theorizing continuity and change in socialist regulation

Gillespie

2023

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How does regulation change in authoritarian polities that tightly control public discourse and social mobilization? Socio-legal theories assume that regulation changes through intersubjective dialogical exchanges that persuade regulators to alter how they perceive social problems and the appropriate regulatory responses. Although this framework captures regulatory change in transparent dialogical spaces, it misses much of the regulatory story in the opaque discursive processes that order authoritarian polities. This article turns to sociological institutional theory-a non-dialogical theory to understand regulatory change in Vietnam's authoritarian polity. It investigates how commercial regulation in Vietnam has responded to an emerging mixed-market economy, at the same time the state has suppressed public dialogical challenges to socialist ideology. It concludes that regulatory change occurs when regulators respond to economic and social crises and layer new ideational components onto old programmatic ideas, converting them to new uses. | INTRODUCTIONHow does regulation change in authoritarian polities 1 that tightly control public discourse and social mobilization? Socio-legal theories assume that regulation changes through intersubjective dialogical exchanges that persuade regulators to alter how they perceive social problems and devise appropriate regulatory responses (Chua & Engle, 2019;Nobles & Schiff, 2013). Although this framework captures regulatory change in transparent dialogical spaces, it is less wellequipped to explore the opaque processes that shape regulatory change in authoritarian polities.

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The Political Economy of Industrial Development in Viet Nam

Cited by 3 publications

References 2 publications

Greening Industry in Vietnam: Environmental Management Standards and Resource Efficiency in SMEs

Greening Industry in Vietnam: Environmental Management Standards and Resource Efficiency in SMEs

Export incentives, domestic mobilization, & labor reforms

Theorizing continuity and change in socialist regulation

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