This article aims to construct and empirically verify a model that demonstrates the association between social capital dimensions, knowledge sharing, and firm performance. For data collection, a questionnaire was delivered to medium and small enterprises across Ho Chi Minh City using convenience sampling. To verify the proposed relationships, the data collected from 543 middle and top managers of medium and small enterprises were then examined using Structural Equation Modelling. Overall, explicit and tacit knowledge sharing are fostered as a result of all social capital dimensions. In a similar vein, both types of knowledge sharing influence firm performance. The study proposes a guide as to how firms should achieve better performance by promoting social capital and knowledge sharing.

This article is carried out to identify factors influencing on financial risk of construction firms listed on Vietnam's stock market. The panel data is extracted from financial statements of 142 listed construction firms between 2012 and 2019. Using regression analysis, financial risk was measured by Alexander Bathory model, it was found: the financial risk was significantly and positively correlated with inventory turnover, negatively correlated with debt structure, return on assets, quick ratio, accounts receivable turnover, fixed assets ratio and weakly correlated with fixed asset turnover, return on sales. These evidences provide useful new insights for business managers and governmental authorities.

Using data from the 2018 Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, the current study ex-amines factors associated with housing conditions in rural Vietnam. We used both descriptive statistics and regression analyses. Controlling for other factors in the regression models, the study finds that households with better education and occupation were more likely to have larger sizes of housing area per person, higher value of the house and permanent houses. Also, the housing conditions are much better for the Kinh population (the ethnic majority) than that for ethnic minorities. In addition, we find that the opportunities for obtaining better housing outcomes vary largely across regions. Our research findings suggest that improving the access of ethnic minorities to education and better job are expected to improve the housing conditions.

This study attempted to identify decisive factors having important impacts on international tourists’ satisfaction in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). By conducting a survey of 2,073 foreign visitors in HCMC, this paper explored nine determinants and their effect levels on international tourists’ destination satisfaction. Quantitative approach was mainly applied with statistical techniques used as exploratory factor, reliability, and multiple regressions analyses. The result indicated that eight out of nine factors significantly affect international tourists’ satisfaction. The nine determinants of foreign tourists’ satisfaction include cultural and historical attraction, tourist service infrastructure, local cuisine, safety and security, entertainment, destination image, negative attributes, perceived price, and natural environment; in which destination image had the strongest effect on satisfaction of international tourists in HCMC. These findings provide practical implications for practitioners, policy makers, and Department of Tourism HCMC.

From the stakeholder theory, the research evaluates the efficiency and impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) implementation for various stakeholders including government, la-bor, customer, community on corporate reputation. A 2-stage Data Enveloped Analysis (DEA) model was employed using a quantitative method of questionnaire survey among a sample of 208 foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises in Hanoi, Vietnam: Stage 1: Using DEA model to evaluate the efficiency of CSR implementation to improve the reputation of enterprises; Stage 2: Using multivariate regression model to assess the impact of CSR implementation on stakeholders in order to improve the reputation of enterprises. The result of the study should give managerial implications for the government and FDI firms in understanding the current state of CSR efficiency, as well as to formulate more target policies to promote FDI firms’ efficient commitment to CSR.

The research aims to test the impact of corporate social responsibility toward employees on employee motivation in Vietnamese businesses. Based on 804 samples, results show that, be-sides the factors of opportunistic behavior, all factors of trust and social responsibility had positive impacts on employee motivation. In particular, the trust has the largest level of influence. The study also pointed out the opposite effect of the trust and social responsibility factors of enterprises toward employees on opportunistic behavior in enterprises. The authors propose a number of recommendations to increase employee motivation in businesses in emerging economies, including Vietnam.

This article investigates the causal connection between social capital (SC), knowledge transfer, innovation and firm performance. Based on existing literature on social capital, we develop a research model showing that three dimensions of social capital, including network ties, trust and shared visions, have positive relationships with company performance via two mediators, namely knowledge transfer and innovation. Using a sample of 153 Vietnamese firms, including one to two respondents from each firm, our study applied structural equation modeling to confirm the hypotheses. The results show that all three dimensions of social capital were positively related to firm performance with knowledge transfer and innovation acting as mediators. Knowledge transfer and the company's innovation were found to have a strong as-sociation with each other. Academically, this paper offers an opportunity to investigate social capital in terms of other factors in one specific industry. Practically, our findings motivate firms to focus on improving knowledge transfer on both quantity and quality prospects to boost firm performance.

The objective of this study is to analyze the role of gender in decision making in rural areas and to measure the level of equality between husband and wife in the family in rural Trieu Son district, Thanh Hoa province. The research results show that there are differences in decision-making in production management, income-generating production activities, and in developing household economic resources in terms of gender. The highest importance factors affecting this issue include gender and educational background.

In the current market economy with fierce competition, the number of newly established businesses is increasing, but the number of businesses that are unprofitable or have low profit also accounts for a large proportion. Accordingly, one of the main reasons for low operational efficiency is an outdated management method and low-cost efficiency. Previous studies on cost management focused primarily on traditional cost methods. Different from previous studies, this study explores the relationship between the application of the cost-based method (ABC costing-method) and the improvement of business performance in manufacturing firms in Ho Chi Minh City. The authors conducted quantitative research by analyzing the Structural equation modeling (SEM) with AMOS - SPSS with secondary data collected from the survey of managers of 620 firms. The research results show that if businesses make good use of the ABC costing-method, their business performance will be significantly improved.

This study is conducted to investigate the impact levels of determinants on customers' decision to use payment services via mobile devices in Hanoi, Vietnam. Data were collected from a survey of people living in Hanoi city of Vietnam who may or not use mobile payment services. Based on the theory of technology acceptance and use (UTAUT) developed, we design a research model with six determinants including expected efficiency, effort expectations, social impact, safety and security, perceived costs and supplier reputation. The results show that determinants of expected efficiency, expected effort, social impact, safety and security and supplier reputation (except perceived costs) had positive impacts on the decision of customer. However, the degree and order of impact varies between two groups of unused and already used customers. In particular, the determinants of effort of expectation, safety and security, reputation of suppliers had the strongest impacts on the decisions of customers in both groups in using payment services through mobile device. Based on the findings, we give suggestions for managers and service providers in developing this kind of service in Hanoi, Vietnam as a case study for emerging countries.