Just a Piece of Paper? Domestic Standards Certification and Small Firm Growth in Viet Nam

E. Calza; M. Goedhuys

doi:10.1080/00220388.2021.1873289

Just a Piece of Paper? Domestic Standards Certification and Small Firm Growth in Viet Nam

E. Calza, M. Goedhuys^*

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Abstract

Using two waves (2013, 2015) of the Micro, Small, and Medium sized Enterprises (MSMEs) survey of Vietnamese manufacturing firms, this paper first explores what drives firms' decision to have a domestic standards certificate, taking into account a rich number of factors related to the cost and expected benefits of certification as well as institutional factors. It further explores the presence of a positive and significant effect of domestic certificates on firm growth, testing whether these serve as signalling devices for desirable attributes under information asymmetry.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1351-1372
Number of pages	22
Journal	Journal of Development Studies
Volume	57
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2021.1873289
Publication status	Published - 3 Aug 2021
Externally published	Yes

JEL classifications

l15 - "Information and Product Quality; Standardization and Compatibility"
o32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D

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