Firm’s Absorptive Capacity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing Firms

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2018-0015" target="_blank" >10.2478/revecp-2018-0015</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Firm’s Absorptive Capacity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing Firms
Original language description
Absorptive capacity is an essential factor for the development of any firm. Hence, numerous researchers use it when proposing different approaches and measurements. However, due to the ambiguity of definition of absorptive capacity, some studies focused on the within-firm aspects of absorptive capacity while some looked at the inter-firm aspects. Consequently, there are several proxies for absorptive capacity, which are unlikely to reach an agreement. Therefore, this study aims for the simplified measurement by defining the absorptive capacity of a firm as the gap in persistent efficiency between the firm and the best foreign firm in the same industry. The persistent efficiency of a firm is estimated by using single stage maximum likelihood method. This measurement is applied to the case of Vietnamese manufacturing firms from 2007 to 2015 to estimate the domestic absorptive capacity. The results show that domestic firms in the manufacture of tobacco products sub-sector have the best absorptive capacity and the manufacture of beverages sub-sector have the worst one. Finally, the validity of the proxy is confirmed when the study finds the positive correlation between absorptive capacity and a firm’s age, size, technology level and skills of its workers.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50204 - Business and management

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical
Národohospodářský obzor - Review of Economic Perspectives
ISSN
1213-2446
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
18
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
301-325
UT code for WoS article
000444277300005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85053682435

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