By adopting the theory of planned behaviour, our study develops research model to analyse the effect of structural support on the entrepreneurial cognitive process among university students in Vietnam. Authors employ a meta-analytic path analysis with a sample of 2218 students at 14 universities in Vietnam in order to show that although structural support has positive effect on attitude towards entrepreneurship and perceived behavioural control, it also has negative influence on subjective norms and entrepreneurial intention. Interestingly, different with some previous studies, authors investigate the significant and direct relationship between subjective norms and entrepreneurial in-tention in the economic transitional context of Vietnam. Moreover, analogously to many researches adapting the planed behavioural control, attitude toward entrepreneurship is still seen as the strongest influencing factor on entrepreneurial intention, followed by perceived behavioural control and subjective norms.

In Vietnam, the role of commercial banks is extremely important, but the real situation does not really meet the requirements of the economy. The State Bank of Vietnam has implemented many solutions to stabilize the monetary market and regulated internal control and internal audit of credit insti-tutions. Therefore, in order to survive and develop in a sustainable way, each commercial bank itself needs to build good governance policies so that its activities are always effective. The most suitable solution is given: good completion of internal control to improve the operational effectiveness of internal control. This article studies the major factors affecting the effectiveness of internal control in joint stock commercial banks in Vietnam, in order to help them understand the factors affecting, improving and ensuring the effective operations of the banks, aiming at the goals of stabilizing the financial economy of the country.

The objective of the paper is to verify the impact of management profile on the implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Nam Dinh garment and textile enterprises, Vietnam. Being conducted on 168 managers of Nam Dinh textile and garment enterprises, using SPSS 22 and Smart PLS 3.0 software, the study shows that management profile had a positive impact on CSR implementation. Also, the importance of ethics and social responsibility had an intermediate role in the relationship between management profile and CSR practices. In addition, the study has examined the moderate role with statistical significance of CEOs’ age and professional qualifications. The younger the CEO is, the more CSR he/she carries out and the higher the CEOs’ professional level is, the more CSR is accomplished.

This study aimed to investigate the effect of management control system enabling with capabilities that can improve the performance of SMEs. This study was conducted among the managers of SMEs of local food products in Banten Province, Indonesia. The number of respondents in this study was 85 SME managers. This study used structural equation modeling as an analytical tool and PLS Smart software to process the data. The findings of this study show that there was a positive effect of the use of enabling management control system (MCS) on creativity; there was a positive and significant effect of the use of Enabling MCS on cost efficiency; there was a positive and significant effect of the use of Enabling MCS on performance; there was a positive and significant effect of creativity on innovation; there was a positive and significant effect of cost efficiency on performance; and finally there was a positive and significant effect of innovation on performance. The implication of this study is that it can provide a choice of control system for SME management, which up to now still uses conventional control system. The use of Enabling MCS can create a capability for the managers of SMEs of local food products to win the competition. This is due to the uniqueness of Enabling MCS that can increase creativity and also cost efficiency.

Performance appraisal is an ongoing process between managers and employees. In fact, the fairer the process in designing the performance appraisal, the better the employee satisfaction. However, realizing fairness in performance appraisal process is a tedious task. The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between how employees may perceive fairness of performance appraisal system and how this would affect work performance and intention to leave. This investigation is likely to be executed among physicians working in the health sector in Qatar. In order to achieve this objective, a model is framed and investigated where about one hundred physicians respond to a questionnaire which was designed in order to assess the performance appraisal satisfaction. Statistical results show a partial positive relationship between organizational justice (in-terview, and outcome) and performance appraisal satisfaction. Moreover, partial positive relation-ship between performance appraisal satisfaction and work performance is statistically proven. Differently, a weak relationship is noticed between intention to leave and perceiving fairness in performance appraisal.

This study develops a mediated model to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention among Vietnamese students. This model also focuses on examining the role of subjective norms on shaping entrepreneurial intention. By using a meta-analytic path analysis with a sample of 2218 students at 14 universities in Vietnam and based on the theory of planned behaviour, authors find that subjective norms did not directly influence on entrepreneurial intention but it had strong indirect effect on entrepreneurial intention through entrepreneurial self-efficacy, attitude toward entrepreneurship and perceived behavioural control. Moreover, the relationship between self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention was also mediated by attitude towards entrepreneurship and perceived behavioural control. In terms of direct effect, the result illustrates that attitudes towards entrepreneurship had the strongest effect on entrepreneurial intention among Vietnamese students, followed by entrepreneurial self-efficacy. These findings also show that the theory of planned behaviour could be effectively applied in the context of transitional economics in Vietnam.

The paper examined the impact of microeconomic factors on the abnormal return of listed stocks on the Vietnam stock market. The research team performed regression analysis based on the data collected from 149 companies listed on Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange between 2012 and 2017. The research results show that the variables of profitability, capital structure and the growth rate all had positive impacts on the abnormal return of listed companies. Meanwhile, the size of enterprises was proven to have the reverse impact on the abnormal return.

The use of technology in business in the era of 4.0 is a difficult task for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) due to lack of resources and other market problems. To attract customers to buy a product, the marketing of a product is usually influenced by various factors, such as price, product quality, and brand. In this study, the researchers analyzed the impact of price, product quality, and product brand on customer’s buying interest. This research is a case study conducted in Fahmi Mandiri SMEs aiming to increase the income. The method used is multiple regression analysis and the data is collected through questionnaires distributed to the customers. The results show that the biggest partial correlation influencing customer buying interest are price of a product and product brand. The quality of a product does not affect customers' buying interest significantly, because consumers will trust the quality of a product when the product brand is known and has the right price.

This article has been retracted in Management Science Letters 2020 10(17),2.

This paper investigates the changes in stock market returns before and after the announcement of a sample of three instalments, or ‘volumes’, (I, X, and XVI) of the Indonesian government’s Eco-nomic Policy Package (EPP), between 2015 and 2017. It tracks Abnormal Return (AR) and Cumulative Abnormal Return (CAR) on the Composite Stock Price Index (JCI) and ten sectorial indices of the Indonesia Stock Exchange. By testing for the direction and significance of differences in AR and CAR, the paper aims to clarify whether those announcements provided sufficient informational content to sway prices. The study finds that the impact of the policy announcements was recorded primarily by individual sectors, but did not elicit a significant market-wide response. Moreover, the majority of economic sectors consistently reacted negatively. This shows that, overall, capital markets did not feel those government policies contain sufficient measures to remove obstacles to busi-ness activity.

The prediction of stock prices movement has always been a concern for investors when they make investment decisions. Most of stock markets all over the world provide data on price to earnings ra-tio (P/E) and price to book value ratio (P/B). How reliable these data are for investment is not clear-ly known. This study examines how accounting data of P/E and P/B can predict the stock prices. The study selects data from 218 firms listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange as sample over the peri-od 2007-2016 and they are analyzed by multiple linear regression. The study shows that price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) had no effect on stock prices for each year and also in all periods, but price to book value ratio (P/B ratio) had positive effect on stock prices, which means that the higher the P/B ratio, the more expensive the stock price. The decision of firm management is to maximize price to book value ratio (P/B ratio) which means to maximize the shareholders’ wealth. However, on the contrary, investors always seek the lower P/B ratio to get the desirable gains. Nevertheless, since the statistical analyses show there are many other variables affecting the stock prices movement, the investors should not rely only on P/B ratio for making investment decisions.