Ownership, technology gap and technical efficiency of small and medium manufacturing firms in Vietnam: A stochastic meta frontier approach

Nguyen, T.; Le, Q.; Tran, T.; Nguyen, M.

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ISSN 1929-5812 (Online) - ISSN 1929-5804 (Print) Quarterly Publication Volume 8 Issue 3 pp. 225-232 , 2019

Ownership, technology gap and technical efficiency of small and medium manufacturing firms in Vietnam: A stochastic meta frontier approach Pages 225-232 Download PDF

Authors: Thi Minh Nguyen, Quoc Hoi Le, Thi Van Hoa Tran, Minh Ngoc Nguyen

DOI: 10.5267/j.dsl.2019.3.002

Keywords: Ownership, Technology gap, Technical efficiency, Small and medium manufacturing firms, Vietnam

Abstract: The ownership - efficiency relationship in a firm has always been an important topic. In this paper, we focus on the state owned versus non-state-owned status of Vietnamese manufacturing firms, to shed light into the relationship between these two variables when using a more state-of-the-art method as a stochastic meta-frontier method. Applying the method for two periods: one during the global economic crisis and the other after the end of the crisis, the study determines that in both periods, there was a strong evidence that non-state-owned firms performed much better than state owned counterpart. We also found that the difference became even larger during the harsh time and sub-industries with non-state-owned firms could outperform the state-owned firms, significantly.

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 Nguyen, T., Le, Q., Tran, T & Nguyen, M. (2019). Ownership, technology gap and technical efficiency of small and medium manufacturing firms in Vietnam: A stochastic meta frontier approach.Decision Science Letters , 8(3), 225-232.

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