The study aims to explore the impact of internal social capital banking on the operations of commercial banks in Vietnam. The study is executed in two phases. Phase 1 uses the expert method to build scales and design survey questions. In phase two, scale test and structural equation model analysis (SEM) are performed with a sample of 243 questionnaires for directors and deputy directors of branches of 32 commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City. It also analyzes the contribution of the structure of the relational network within the bank and the quality of the relational network. The research results show that internal banking social capital affects all three operations; namely mobilization, lending and service provision of the banks. Based on the research results, the study proposes an analytical framework to improve the quality of internal banking relationships.

Financial information that meets the user’s requirements must be accurate, sufficient, timely and reliable. Consequently, national laws and international auditing standards require the auditor to provide confidence in the audited financial information. To achieve this, the auditor independence must be ensured. The objective of this study is to identify factors affecting the auditor independence in financial statements audit in Vietnam. The identified factors are audit tenure; the provision of non-audit services; economic dependence; employment with audit clients; competition within the external audit market; the risk to the auditor from the provision of poor-quality audit services, and the disclosure of financial relations. Data of the study were collected through a survey of auditor, audit firms and users of financial statements such as managers, investors, accountants, etc. The findings are the basis for proposing recommendations to more enhance the auditor independence and audit quality in financial statements in VietNam.

This article examines 57 companies listed on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange from January 1, 2015 to March 31, 2020, to check whether or not investors' sentiment impacts the return of these stocks. Investor's daily sentiment towards each stock was measured by the psychological line index. The results of the study using both regression methods, Fama-MacBeth and General Least Squares, show that the influence of investor sentiment to return stocks in the stock market was significant and could not be ignored. Besides, the psychological factor of investors, their trading behavior causing stock supply-demand imbalance were all important factors affecting stock return. The study also found that the effect of firm size on stock returns was more pronounced when both investor sentiment and behavior were used in research models. The finding from this study suggests that individual investors who trade stocks every day can use psychological line index, which is one of the groups of decision-making indicators.

The article analyzes the impact of financial structure on the performance of 70 industry listed enterprises in the period 2009-2019. The research results show that the business performance of the industrial enterprises listed on the Vietnamese stock market had a negative correlation with the capital structure, asset structure, inventory structure, receivable structure, firm age and positively correlated with firm size, sales growth rate. These results help business administrators make appropriate financial decisions to improve the efficiency of business performance.

Banking financial performance (BFP) has been recognized as a causation of human resource management (HRM). The causal linkages from HRM practices to BFP are different. Nevertheless, almost none of the studies has ranked and compared this difference among the practices of HRM in enhancing BFP. The current study applied an analytic hierarchy process to rank the relative importance of HRM practices. For the robustness of the results from the process of analytic hierarchy, the current work employed an analytic hierarchy process to reassess the relatively important levels of HRM practices on BFP as well. The findings are robust across both of the techniques. The practice of training and development (TT) plays the most critical part in BFP, followed by the practice of performance evaluation (PN) and the practice of reward system (RM) as the third most important. In contrast, the practice of recruitment and selection (RN) takes the least important position in BFP. Moreover, the findings also provide statistical evidence on the causal links from the practices of HRM to BFP. This work makes some contribution to how managers should decide on HRM practices in order to obtain the best possible BFP.

This study conducted a survey on 243 branches of 32 commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City in 2016 to explore and measure the composition of social capital affecting capital activities, using capital activities and service provision activities of commercial banks. The paper uses Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), CFA affirmation analysis and the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results show that social capital directly affects all three activities of commercial banks. In addition, the study found that capital activity has a direct impact on using capital, activities of using capital directly affect the provision of services, and capital activities indirectly impact on service provision.

This study attempts to explore the relationship between Human Resource Management Practice, Corporate Social Responsibility, and food processing enterprises’ performance. The sample size was collected from 438 employees and managers in 278 food processing enterprises. Structure Equation Model is the analytical method used in the study to analyze the relationship among the variables in the theoretical framework. The results from this study show that Human Resource Management Practice had a direct impact on some aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility including employees, customers and the environment. The practice of Corporate Social Responsibility had a positive correlation with Organizational Commitment. However, only Corporate Social Responsibility targeted at customers is found to have a direct impact on business performance. This study also shows that although Human Resource Management Practice did not directly affect business performance, it still had an indirect impact through the practice of Corporate Social Responsibility and Organizational Commitment.

This paper investigates the relationship between business barriers and the degree of internationalization of manufacturing enterprises in Peru. Using a panel data survey of 869 companies over the year 2006, 2010 and 2017, with Tobit regression model, the empirical results show that competition and transportation have negative impacts on internationalization process, whilst factors like international certification, tax administration, custom clearance and bribery cost have positive impacts. In addition, the factors that belong to individual managers affecting the internationalization of firms are not statistically significant. The study will give policy makers more information to support Vietnamese businesses in the process of internationalization.

This paper focuses on analyzing the impact of financial depth on corporate performance. The study data is collected by the author from World Bank statistics and financial statements of companies in the logistics sector, which is a relatively young industry but has great potential for development in Vietnam. Using the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) to estimate the study model, the author finds out a significant impact of financial depth on corporate performance. In particular, the financial depth from a banking perspective has a positive impact on corporate performance. However, the financial depth from a stock market perspective has not brought positive results to the corporate performance. Not only that, the author also finds out significant impacts of financial leverage and firm size control variables on corporate performance. Therefore, it can be said that the financial depth from the perspective of banks plays an important role in stimulating the corporate performance. Meanwhile, the financial depth from the perspective of the stock market has not shown this role, this is the difference between this study result and the previous studies. The results of this study are important for logistics managers and policymakers in Vietnam.

The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on customer loyalty in the case of Vietnam Airlines, the flag carrier in Vietnam, in which CSR is a multi-dimensional construct including economic, legal, ethical, philanthropic and environmental responsibilities. The study was accomplished by implementing a survey on a sample of 370 Vietnamese passengers using 24 Likert-type items drawn from theoretical literature. The multiple regression model was applied to analyze the impact of five latent independent variables on the dependent variable - customer loyalty. The results indicate that for the case of Vietnam Airlines, all five CSR dimensions significantly and positively affect customer loyalty and legal responsibility should be emphasized as the most important dimension. The findings convey practical implications for airlines to boost customer loyalty by identifying relevant CSR dimensions on which airlines should focus in their corporate strategy.