Determinants of marketing innovation among SMEs in Vietnam: a resource-based and stakeholder perspective
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Innovative marketing practices are essential for firms to increase sales and profitability. This paper aims to investigate the determinants of firms’ marketing innovation based on the employment of resource-based view and stakeholder theory. A probit regression model linking marketing innovation with proxies of firms’ resources and pressures from firms’ stakeholders was tested based on a dataset of 5,857 Vietnamese enterprises taken from a survey by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam in 2016. The findings indicate that firms’ size decreases the probability of marketing innovation by 1%, while internal knowledge gained from internal R&D causes the probability of marketing innovation to increase by 0.18%. Besides, the political connection and collaborations with competitors and private consultants drive the probability that firms implement the marketing innovation up by 0.09%, 0.12%, and 0.09%, respectively. On the other hand, export-oriented firms are more likely to implement marketing innovation by 0.03%, while foreign ownership reduces the chance of this decision by 0.05%. This research also reveals the essential role of the firm’s market pressures to enter into new markets or improve product quality in encouraging marketing innovation by 0.16% and 0.13%, respectively.
Acknowledgment
This research was supported by National Economics University, Grant Number: 343-QĐ-ĐHKTQD.
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JEL Classification (Paper profile tab)M31, M38, O31
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- Table 1. Variable descriptions
- Table 2. Determinants of innovation strategies
- Table 3. Moderating effects of government support by the firm’s political connection
- Table 4. The mediating role of government support by types of government support
- Table A1. Correlation
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