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 containing full and frank interviews with local managers on the country’s business culture. It thus provides those seeking to do business in Vietnam with an unparalleled insight into how and why its businesses in general, and state owned enterprises in particular, are structured and managed, a topic about which little has been previously written. The book also presents researchers and students with a comprehensive, societal approach to the study of organisational behaviour, and offers a distinctive interpretation of the common problems of state owned enterprises in transitional economies that goes beyond the traditional economic explanation.
1. Introduction - p. xviii 2. Part 1: Theories and methods - p. 4 3. Chapter 1: The analytical background - p. 4 4. Chapter 2: The theoretical framework - p. 20 5. Chapter 3: Research methodology - p. 28 6. Part 2: Vietnam’s history, culture, economy, institutions and form of capitalism - p. 39 7. Chapter 4: An overview of Vietnamese history and culture - p. 39 8. Chapter 5: An overview of the Vietnamese economy in transition and the reform of state-owned enterprises - p. 71 9. Chapter 6: The institutional matrix and the typical form of capitalism in Vietnam - p. 91 10. Part 3: The Vietnamese state-owned enterprises during the reform period - p. 111 11. Introduction - p. 111 12. Chapter 7: Authority relations within Vietnamese SOEs - p. 112 13. Chapter 8: The industrial governance of SOEs - p. 126 14. Chapter 9: The management problems of the Vietnamese SOEs - p. 135 15. Discussion - p. 159 16. Chapter 10: Embedded materialism – the limitation of the incentive structure in Vietnamese SOEs - p. 163 17. Chapter 11: Policy implications - p. 175 18. Summary and conclusions - p. 183 19. APPENDICES - p. 189 20. Appendix 1: List of decisions or responsibilities investigated (a replication of the Aston Studies) - p. 189 21. Appendix 2: Questionnaire I(*) – Perceptions about management in SOEs - p. 191 22. Appendix 3: Questionnaire II - The ‘bonus’ phenomenon in economic transactions in Vietnam - p. 193 23. Appendix 4: General information about the sample in the study of economic transactions (Questionnaire III) - p. 195 24. Bibliography - p. 196 25. Index - p. 217
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 containing full and frank interviews with local managers on the country’s business culture. It thus provides those seeking to do business in Vietnam with an unparalleled insight into how and why its businesses in general, and state owned enterprises in particular, are structured and managed, a topic about which little has been previously written. The book also presents researchers and students with a comprehensive, societal approach to the study of organisational behaviour, and offers a distinctive interpretation of the common problems of state owned enterprises in transitional economies that goes beyond the traditional economic explanation.
1. Introduction - p. xviii 2. Part 1: Theories and methods - p. 4 3. Chapter 1: The analytical background - p. 4 4. Chapter 2: The theoretical framework - p. 20 5. Chapter 3: Research methodology - p. 28 6. Part 2: Vietnam’s history, culture, economy, institutions and form of capitalism - p. 39 7. Chapter 4: An overview of Vietnamese history and culture - p. 39 8. Chapter 5: An overview of the Vietnamese economy in transition and the reform of state-owned enterprises - p. 71 9. Chapter 6: The institutional matrix and the typical form of capitalism in Vietnam - p. 91 10. Part 3: The Vietnamese state-owned enterprises during the reform period - p. 111 11. Introduction - p. 111 12. Chapter 7: Authority relations within Vietnamese SOEs - p. 112 13. Chapter 8: The industrial governance of SOEs - p. 126 14. Chapter 9: The management problems of the Vietnamese SOEs - p. 135 15. Discussion - p. 159 16. Chapter 10: Embedded materialism – the limitation of the incentive structure in Vietnamese SOEs - p. 163 17. Chapter 11: Policy implications - p. 175 18. Summary and conclusions - p. 183 19. APPENDICES - p. 189 20. Appendix 1: List of decisions or responsibilities investigated (a replication of the Aston Studies) - p. 189 21. Appendix 2: Questionnaire I(*) – Perceptions about management in SOEs - p. 191 22. Appendix 3: Questionnaire II - The ‘bonus’ phenomenon in economic transactions in Vietnam - p. 193 23. Appendix 4: General information about the sample in the study of economic transactions (Questionnaire III) - p. 195 24. Bibliography - p. 196 25. Index - p. 217
