How Institutions Influence SME Innovation and Networking Practices: The Case of Vietnamese Agribusiness

Thai Thi Minh and Carsten Nico Hjortsø

Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, vol. 53, issue S1, 209-228

Abstract: This paper addresses impacts of the institutional framework on small and medium‐sized enterprise () innovation and networking practices. Through an explorative study of a domestic ‐dominated sector in ietnam, we find that the institutional framework limits incentives for long‐term investments, resulting in exploitative cost‐control strategies rather than product‐oriented innovation. Due to dominating social norms, form trust‐based friendship networks, potentially limiting knowledge acquisition and weakening business rationality. Institutional pressures reinforce negative influences on s' incentives to develop innovation ambidexterity. The findings suggest that new institutional economic sociology provides a promising foundation for understanding how institutional frameworks influence s' innovation practices in emerging economies.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1111/jsbm.12189

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