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dc.contributor.authorLe, Viet
dc.contributor.authorVu, Xuan-Binh Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorNghiem, Son
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-05T12:31:04Z
dc.date.available2019-07-05T12:31:04Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0313-5926
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.eap.2018.03.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/372935
dc.description.abstractSmall and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in the Vietnamese economy; hence more understanding of their efficiency is of interest for a variety of various stakeholders in Vietnam. This paper estimates technological gaps and identifies factors affecting variations in the technical efficiency of SMEs in Vietnam using firm-level survey data in 2008 in a stochastic meta-frontier framework. We found that, on average, SMEs can increase their current outputs by eight percent using the same quantity of inputs. Firms operating in major cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are found to be more efficient and possess better technology. Our evidence indicates that most SMEs in Vietnam use relatively low-level technologies, evidenced by the higher return from labour and raw materials than that from capital.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.sponsorshipTownsville Hospital and Health Service
dc.description.sponsorshipGriffith University
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom84
dc.relation.ispartofpageto91
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEconomic Analysis and Policy
dc.relation.ispartofvolume59
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconomics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconometrics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconomic theory
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode38
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode380199
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3802
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3803
dc.titleTechnical Efficiency of Small and Medium Manufacturing Firms in Vietnam: A Stochastic Meta-Frontier Analysis
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.rights.copyright© 2018 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland. Published by Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorVu, Benjamin


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