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Guerilla capitalism : the state in the market in Vietnam /

Aimed at globalising companies, institutional investors, business researchers, students and practitioners. Guerilla Capitalism analyses the nature of the business system and behaviour of state owned enterprises in Vietnam. Written by an expert author, the book is based on first hand case studies con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nguyen, Lan, Dr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Chandos, 2009.
Colección:Chandos Asian studies series.
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  • Cover; Guerilla Capitalism:The state in the market in Vietnam; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; TABLE OF FIGURES; Preface; About the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: Theories and methods; Chapter 1: The analytical background; 1.1. The soft budget constraint; 1.2. Principal/agent theory; 1.3. Boisot and Child's C-space framework; 1.4. Hofstede's culture dimensions; 1.5. Institutional theory; Chapter 2: The theoretical framework; 2.1. Theoretical framework and research issues; 2.2. Formal and informal; 2.3. Assumptions about human behaviour; Chapter 3: Research methodology.
  • 3.1. MethodologyData sources and data collection methods; Part 2: Vietnam's history, culture, economy, institutions and form of capitalism; Chapter 4: An overview of Vietnamese history and culture; 4.1. Overview of Vietnamese history; 4.2. Overview of Vietnamese culture and society; Chapter 5: An overview of the Vietnamese economy in transition and the reform of state-owned enterprises; 5.1 The legacy of French colonialism; 5.2. The Soviet-style development model 1955-1980; 5.3. The reforms; 5.4. The Vietnamese economy since the reform process and the position of SOEs in 2002.
  • 5.5. The reform process in Vietnam
  • 'adjustment to a given world'Chapter 6: The institutional matrix and the typical form of capitalism in Vietnam; 6.1. The formal laws and institutions in Vietnam; 6.2. Informal norms in economic transactions; 6.3. Guerilla capitalism; Part 3: The Vietnamese state-owned enterprises during the reform period; Chapter 7: Authority relations within Vietnamese SOEs; 7.1. Research process and assessment methods; 7.2. The Aston data of centralisation of decision making; 7.3. The Central Domain; Chapter 8: The industrial governance of SOEs.
  • 8.1. The governance structure
  • a formal framework8.2. The nature of the relationship between the enterprise and the higher hierarchical levels; Chapter 9: The management problems of the Vietnamese SOEs; 9.1. Other people's money
  • the 'bonus' problem; 9.2. The shoe enterprise; 9.3. Additional evidence from the shoe enterprise and from the garment and the light bulb enterprises; 9.4. Other people's money: reconsidered; Discussion; Action and structure; Transactions; Chapter 10: Embedded materialism
  • the limitation of the incentive structure in Vietnamese SOEs.
  • 10.1. Marx's labour theory of value10.2. Payment practice in the Vietnamese SOEs; 10.3. Embedded materialism, incentive structures and the problems of Vietnamese SOEs; Chapter 11: Policy implications; 11.1. Privatisation / equitisation; 11.2. Further reform of the SOEs; Summary and conclusions; 1. Summary; 2. Contribution of the research; 3. Limitations; 4. Further research; Appendix 1: List of decisions or responsibilities investigated (a replication of the Aston Studies); Appendix 2: Questionnaire I(*)
  • Perceptions about management in SOEs.