Factors Affecting the Support of Industrial Businesses’ Performance in Vietnam’s Digital Economy

Duong Phuong Thao Pham (), Duc Huynh, Kim-Linh Le and Thao-Anh Le
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Duong Phuong Thao Pham: Department of Research-Development and Global Engagement, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam
Duc Huynh: Department of Research-Development and Global Engagement, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam
Kim-Linh Le: Department of Research-Development and Global Engagement, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam
Thao-Anh Le: Department of Research-Development and Global Engagement, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam

Sustainability, 2025, vol. 17, issue 17, 1-23

Abstract: This study analyzes the factors that affect the technical efficiency (TE) of firms in the supporting industry in the context of Vietnam’s digitalized economy. Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), Fixed Effect Models, and System-GMM methods are applied to reach the findings that the quality of human resources, capital intensity, and firm size have positive effects on TE. Furthermore, exogenous environmental factors, such as the domestic demand of an industry impacting all upstream businesses, which use inputs that are products of that industry (BSpill-ratio), and the FDI backward effect (BFSpill), also exhibit positive effects. These confirm that the linkage between domestic supporting industry suppliers and FDI assembly enterprises plays an important role in improving TE. Vietnam’s digital transformation since 2020 has also created some interesting changes in the correlation coefficient. Location, sectors, competitiveness, and investment environment are also considered, and the results suggest that they are all determinants to be considered in management policies at both the firm level and the government level. Our contribution in this study is new policies aligned with many major changes in the world economic context, such as the tough tariff policy implemented by recent presidential administrations and a series of reforms of the Vietnamese Government, as well as strong digital transformation in Vietnam. The key findings of this research are important as they confirm which factors are really determinants for the Vietnamese government to implement investment policies for this industry effectively.

Keywords: Technical efficiency; supporting industry; digital economy; digital transformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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