The impact of petty corruption on firm innovation in Vietnam

Corruption has been found to have complex effects on firm innovation. Limited theoretical and empirical evidence to date has been rather inconclusive. This study employs econometric estimation techniques to analyze data from small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Vietnam to assess the impact...

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1. VerfasserIn: Nguyen-ngoc-Anh (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Doan Quang Hung ; Nguyen Ngoc Minh ; Binh Tran-Nam 1954-
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2016
In: Crime, law and social change
Jahr: 2016, Band: 65, Heft: 4/5, Seiten: 377-394
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Firm Innovation
Foreign Firm
Informal Payment
Process Innovation
Product Innovation
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Zusammenfassung:Corruption has been found to have complex effects on firm innovation. Limited theoretical and empirical evidence to date has been rather inconclusive. This study employs econometric estimation techniques to analyze data from small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Vietnam to assess the impact of petty corruption on firm innovation. The empirical results tend to support the "greasing" impact of corruption on innovation. Specifically, informal payments by Vietnamese firms are shown to encourage overall innovation, product improvement, innovation and new innovation. In view of the commonplace business practice of paying small informal fees to speed up transactions in the inefficient public sector in Vietnam, this finding is not entirely unexpected, though troubling.
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 393-394
ISSN:1573-0751
DOI:10.1007/s10611-016-9610-1