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Slack resources and innovation in Vietnamese SMEs: A behavioural, stewardship, and institutional perspectiveFrom the book: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam
Innovation Slack Institutional economicsBook Chapter
Capital allocation, credit access, and firm growthFrom the book: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam
Investment and access to finance SMEs Access to creditBook Chapter
IntroductionFrom the book: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam
SMEs Microeconomics Data revolutionBook
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in VietnamMicro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam provides a comprehensive analytic contribution to a crucial topic within development economics...
SMEs Microeconomics Private sectorJournal Article
Subnational home market bias in Vietnam: Evidence from enterprise‐level dataThis paper contributes to the home (market) bias literature where administrative or political borders limit trade across borders. Home bias is well documented at the national and subnational level...
Viet Nam Exporting SubcontractingDatabase
Viet Nam dataViet Nam’s contemporary similarities to a large number of developing countries make its experiences highly relevant for many regional and extra-regional stakeholders. On this page you will find in-depth and high quality reports on firm-level...
SMEs VARHS Social Accounting MatrixPresentation
Launching Ceremony of the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Qualitative Study Report (2018)On 26 March the results and outcomes of the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Qualitative Study Report (2018) , SAM engagement, and four in-depth Studies were presented at a launching ceremony in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The meeting brought...
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Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises 2018 Qualitative StudyThe purpose of this report is to give a nuanced picture of the SME business environment in Myanmar as a complement to the 2017 MSME quantitative survey conducted within the project ‘ Towards Inclusive Development in Myanmar ’...
SMEs Manufacturing Informal sectorWorking Paper
Managerial attributes and enterprise access to formal credit in MyanmarUsing data from a new survey of small and medium-sized enterprises in Myanmar, we analyse enterprise demand for formal credit and the extent to which they are constrained in the formal credit market...
Formal credit Gender Personality traitsBlog
Can natural resources jump-start industrialization?
At the end of last year, I filmed a lecture that will be part of a massive open online course (MOOC) on industrialization in Africa...
Industrialization Structural change Employment and IndustryJournal Article
The exporting and subcontracting decisions of Viet Nam's small- and medium-sized enterprisesThe exporting and subcontracting decisions of a panel of Vietnamese private small- and medium-sized enterprises is investigated...
Viet Nam Exporting SubcontractingBlog
Comprehensive policy change needed in Myanmar to support structural transformation: Insights from the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Survey 2017
The Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Survey 2017 shows that there is a need for comprehensive and immediate change in industrial, financial, and educational policies in Myanmar to support structural change and increase economic growth...
Myanmar SMEs Structural transformationWorking Paper
Certification and business riskThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the scope for international private standards to play a role in reducing business risk. Business risk is measured as variability in revenue, customer base, informal payments, and temporary firm closure...
Risk SMEs BusinessWorking Paper
Slack resources and innovation in Vietnamese SMEs: A behavioural, stewardship, and institutional perspectiveSlack resources are usually identified as an endogenous motivation for firms’ innovation. Still, it is crucial to assess the importance of slack in supporting innovation, especially in different institutional contexts...
Innovation Slack Institutional economicsWorking Paper
Pecuniary returns to working conditions in VietnamUsing matched worker-firm data from three waves of the Vietnam Small and Medium Enterprises data, we examine whether workers are compensated with higher wages for working in vulnerable jobs and unfavourable working conditions...
Wage differentials Working conditions Small and medium enterprisesWorking Paper
Capital allocation, credit access, and firm growth in VietnamIn this paper, we explore the relationship between firm growth, access to finance, and the efficiency of capital allocation in Vietnam over the period 2005–2015...
Investment and access to finance SMEs Access to credit