Foreign Direct Investment Absorptive capacity of Vietnam

FDI is one important source for development in Vietnam. FDI can generate positive and/or negative impacts on host countries. Hence, the main aim of the dissertation is to improve the absorptive capacity of Vietnam at the provincial level in order to fully take advantage of the positive impacts of FDI. At the firm level, the author puts forward a new measurement of the absorptive capacity of firms. Then, it is constructed as one dimension of absorptive capacity at the provincial level. At the provincial level, there are six dimensions of absorptive capacity. They are the level of openness, infrastructure, financial development, human capital, institutions and absorptive capacity of domestic firms. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, the dissertation shows the following findings. At the firm level, absorptive capacity can boost the effect of horizontal effects from FDI and there are thresholds of absorptive capacity of domestic firms. At the provincial level, the importance of the dimensions of provincial absorptive capacity is as follow infrastructure, the absorptive capacity of domestic firms, human capital and financial development. The dissertation brings three academic contributions which are the framework to analyse absorptive capacity, the new measurement of absorptive capacity of firms and the evidence to connect the absorptive capacity of firms and absorptive capacity of provinces. In terms of political contribution, the dissertation shows the list of prioritized dimensions of absorptive capacity of suggests several policy implications improve this capacity in Vietnam.

ISBN:	978-80-7454-921-2
EAN:	9788074549212
Počet stran	42 stran
Datum vydání	17. 09. 2020
Pořadí vydání	První
Jazyk	anglický
Vazba	e-kniha - pdf
Autor:	Hoang Duong Vu
Nakladatelství	Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně
Tématická skupina	999 - nezařazeno
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