Table Of Content‘Always thoughtful and at times inspirational, this is a uniquely integrated
account of managers and management in Vietnam.’
Peter Lawrence, Emeritus Professor, Loughborough University
‘We all need to know more about the new economic reforms in Vietnam and their
implications for global business. This clearly-written book is one of the best on
Vietnamese management at hand. It will surely fill a gap in the market.’
Malcolm Warner, Professor and Fellow Emeritus, Wolfson College and
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Co-author of New Human
Resource Management Models in China and India, London: Routledge, 2012
‘This is a comprehensive book on the nature and substance of Vietnamese
management. It provides a philosophical foundation of Vietnamese manage-
ment, including Confucianism, Marxism–Leninism, capitalism and nation-
alism as well as portraying the role of different managers and their development
among different ownership systems under the economic transformation. This is
a valuable book for an audience who wants to have a better understanding of
transitional economy in general and management practices in a socialist market
economy in particular.’
Professor Ying Zhu, Director of the Centre for Asian Business,
University of South Australia
Managers and Management
in Vietnam
This book presents a comprehensive overview of managers and management in
Vietnam, based on extensive original research, including interviews with a large
number of managers in Vietnam. It shows how management in Vietnam is best
understood from the perspective of Vietnamese managers themselves, rather
than in terms of Western or Asian models of management. It discusses the range
of enterprises in the Vietnamese economy, which, until 1986, was dominated
by large state-owned enterprises and Soviet-style central economic planning,
and where there is now a much greater variety, with a mix of privatized state-
owned enterprises, foreign-owned companies, joint ventures and a very large
number of relatively small private companies, all operating in a social market
economy where party ideology emphasizes a balance between economic growth
and workers’ rights. The book demonstrates how the tensions arising from this
economic landscape are reflected in the views and actions of managers as they
balance economic and social goals in their work, and how their activities are
constrained further by the enduring influence of local culture that is not always
amenable to imported ideas and methods. As many managers have worked in
different kinds of companies, the book also reveals a great deal about manage-
ment in different contexts and also about how companies have changed as the
reform process has evolved.
Vincent Edwards is Emeritus Professor of International Management at
Buckinghamshire New University, and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of
Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Anh Phan is Associate Dean of the School of Business Administration,
International University, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City
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