Vietnam at a Crossroads: Engaging in the Next Generation of Global Value Chains

Hollweg, Claire H.; Smith, Tanya; Taglioni, Daria

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-0996-5

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“…The country is one of the world's most active participants in global value chains (GVCs), rating among the top countries worldwide in the GVC participation index (UNCTAD‐Eora 2019). Between 50 and 60 percent of the valued added in Vietnam is generated through GVCs (Hollweg, Smith, & Taglioni, 2017). Vietnam's global production relationships are driven primarily by foreign investors, many from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, as well as Singapore and China.…”

Section: Market Opportunities and Labor‐related Upgrading In Vietnammentioning

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Labor upgrading and export market opportunities: Evidence from Vietnam

Malesky

Mosley

2021

Economics & Politics

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We explore and provide an empirical assessment of an important mechanism by which global markets can motivate labor‐related upgrading among developing country firms. New market opportunities, which result from exogenous shocks, can some producers to improve their treatment of workers. These improvements come because they are consistent with taking advantage of new opportunities. We focus specifically on how shifts in U.S. trade policy toward China in 2018 affect the willingness of foreign firms operating in Vietnam to engage in upgrading. Our analyses, based on surveys of firms in 2016, 2017, and 2018, suggest that firms respond significantly to changes in market opportunities, especially when they are primed to consider specific supply chain relationships. This market opportunity mechanism for upgrading contrasts with another widely used tool, in which developed country governments condition access to their markets upon improved human and labor rights outcomes. The former operates, in the short to medium term, at the firm level, while the latter seeks to effect change at the country level.

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Section: Market Opportunities and Labor‐related Upgrading In Vietnammentioning

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Labor upgrading and export market opportunities: Evidence from Vietnam

Malesky

Mosley

2021

Economics & Politics

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“…In a similar context, the strong productive polarization and the lack of intermediate logistic knots seem to generate market unbalances between freight transport demand and supply in the country’s urban areas. This is likely to produce substantial transaction costs that obstruct the development of productive linkages and hamper market access (Hollweg et al., 2017). Moreover, the regression results report a positive sign for the coefficients associated with R&D firms, suggesting that the most innovative firms are more likely to exhibit transport constraints.…”

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Institutional and economic transition in Vietnam: Analysing the heterogeneity in firms’ perceptions of business environment constraints

Angelino

Tassinari

Barbieri

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Competition & Change

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Vietnam has experienced a gradual process of institutional transition combined with rapid economic growth since the Doi Moi reform in 1986. In recent years, the government has recognized the need to implement reforms to foster the development of favourable business environment conditions. In this scenario, however, the government seems to assume a uniform demand for business environment reforms, ignoring possible divergences in the constraints faced by different actors of the system. The aim of this paper is to analyse the heterogeneity in firms’ perceptions of business environment constraints. Adopting discrete choice models on firm-level data and subjective assessments on business environment obstacles, we differentiate the nature and severity of firms’ obstacles according to different characteristics of the enterprises, including the firm size, territorial localization and levels of performance and competitiveness. The study is useful as an informative base for defining public interventions calibrated on the different categories and needs of Vietnamese enterprises.

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“…SMEs are playing an increasingly important role in Vietnam. Nevertheless, their integration into GVCs is still limited (Hollweg et al, 2017; OECD, 2021). This unchanged context suggests the relevance of the study for the current development of Vietnam.…”

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Information technology adoption and integration into global value chains: Evidence from small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises in Vietnam

Bui

Hoang

et al. 2021

J of Intl Development

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While it is well known that the adoption of information technology facilitates the integration of enterprises into global value chains (GVCs), it is unclear how this relationship changes in different business environments. This study reveals that while the adoption of information technology facilitates micro-, small-, or medium-sized enterprises which are located in an improved-quality business environment to participate in GVCs, it does not help the micro-sized enterprises located in a low-quality business environment to become integrated into GVCs. Therefore, information technology policies should be complemented by policies which improve the business environment to promote smaller enterprises to be integrated into GVCs.

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Vietnam at a Crossroads: Engaging in the Next Generation of Global Value Chains

Cited by 15 publications

References 15 publications

Labor upgrading and export market opportunities: Evidence from Vietnam

Labor upgrading and export market opportunities: Evidence from Vietnam

Institutional and economic transition in Vietnam: Analysing the heterogeneity in firms’ perceptions of business environment constraints

Information technology adoption and integration into global value chains: Evidence from small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises in Vietnam

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