Land acquisition and resettlement issues related to hydropower and irrigation works have always been one of the hot issues in Vietnam mountainous areas for many years. Although the Government has introduced many policies to ensure the rights of resettled people, as well as protect their lives, the effectiveness of these policies seems to be still insignificant, because many resettled people still face many difficulties in their daily life, especially income. The research is conducted within the project titled “The urgent issues in resettlement implementation for the ethnic minorities in Vietnam mountainous areas” and funded by National Council for Science and Technology Policy in 2016-2020 (CTDT/16-20) under Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs. Applying Likert-scale and Propensity Score Matching (PSM), this study shows that 34% of the resettled households have a lower income, specifically estimated to be 8.0 - 13.1 million VND/household/year or 1.7 - 3.0 million VND/person/year lower than the income of the controlled group. However, agricultural income is not significantly different between resettled households and controlled households. This article only focuses on clarifying the impact of the resettlement policy on the general income and agricultural income of ethnic minority households; while methods to create jobs, increase income, and reduce poverty sustainably for ethnic minority households in the resettlement sites should be conducted in another research in the future.

The study has surveyed 285 manufacturing enterprises in central Vietnam as a representative sample, through which the research has analyzed the current status of operation of manufacturing enterprises in Central Vietnam. The research results also pointed out 5 factors: (1) Labor; (2) Enterprise size; (3) Financial management capacity (4) Capital structure and (5) System of policies and legislation in descending order of affecting the performance of enterprises through regression model. Besides, the study has given specific policy suggestions through the current situation and research model to improve business performance for manufacturing enterprises in Central Vietnam in the future.

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 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.

This study was designed to identify factors affecting management capacity of business leaders, and identified factors such as macro-environmental factors, internal factors, knowledge of business leaders and traditional family result factors, as well as skills of business leaders. These factors have different levels of effects on the management capacity of business leaders. The findings are the basis for proposing recommendations to more enhance the management capacity of business leaders. Data for the study was collected from a survey of business leaders in Bac Ninh province, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and multivariate regression was used for analysis in this study.

Green banking encourages sustainable economic development and stimulates environmentally friendly activities. The objective of this study is to assess determinants of green banking adoption in Vietnam. Data of the study was collected through a survey of officials and employees at commercial banks in Vietnam. The results of correlation and regression analysis indicate that the influence of macro factors on the level of green banking is the strongest, followed by the bank's financial capacity, government's supportive policies and green investment needs of business organizations. Conversely, the capacity of officials and the bank leader awareness on green banking do not significantly affect the level of green banking adoption in Vietnam.

The paper uses the FEM and REM models to test the role of commercial bank development on economic growth in Vietnam. The research data is taken from the World Development Indicator (WDI) of the World Bank (World Bank - WB) and the annual reports of 30 Vietnamese commercial banks in the period of 2007 - 2018. Experimental research results show the very important role of commercial banks in Vietnam's economic growth during this period.

The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the financial performance of textile and garment export enterprises in Vietnam. We conducted an analysis on 396 textile and garment enterprises exporting in Vietnam and the results show that CSR had a positive impact on financial performance through a positive impact on corporate reputation, a positive impact on employee commitment and positive impact on government support. Since then, corporate reputation, employee commitment and government support also had a strong positive impact on the financial performance of these export textile enterprises. Finally, based on the results of testing the research hypotheses, we propose solutions for Vietnam textile enterprises in general, export textile enterprises in particular and recommend solutions for Government to support businesses to implement CSR more effectively, ensuring sustainable development for the economy.

This article analyzes the impact of macroeconomic and bank-specific factors affecting the profitability of Vietnam banks, which is an emerging economy with the banking industry considered to be young but plays a very important role for the development of the economy. The study data was collected during the period of 2013-2018. The Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) is used to estimate the study model to ensure that the results obtained are of high confidence. The study results show that the bank profitability was positively affected by macroeconomic (such as economic growth and inflation) and bank-specific factors (such as bank capital, bank size, and liquidity risk), which is an interesting finding in Vietnam. The results of this study are important for bank managers and researchers.