Determinants of marketing innovation among SMEs in Vietnam: a resource-based and stakeholder perspective

  • Received June 22, 2020;
    Accepted December 1, 2020;
    Published December 18, 2020
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/im.16(4).2020.07
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    Volume 16 2020, Issue #4, pp. 74-90
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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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    • 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
    • Conceptualization
      To Trung Thanh , Le Thanh Ha , Doan Ngoc Thang, Tran Anh Ngoc
    • Formal Analysis
      To Trung Thanh , Le Thanh Ha
    • Methodology
      To Trung Thanh , Le Thanh Ha , Doan Ngoc Thang
    • Project administration
      To Trung Thanh , Hoang Phuong Dung
    • Software
      To Trung Thanh , Le Thanh Ha , Tran Anh Ngoc
    • Supervision
      To Trung Thanh , Le Thanh Ha , Doan Ngoc Thang, Tran Anh Ngoc
    • Writing – review & editing
      To Trung Thanh , Hoang Phuong Dung, Doan Ngoc Thang, Tran Anh Ngoc
    • Data curation
      Le Thanh Ha , Doan Ngoc Thang
    • Funding acquisition
      Le Thanh Ha
    • Investigation
      Le Thanh Ha , Hoang Phuong Dung
    • Resources
      Le Thanh Ha
    • Validation
      Le Thanh Ha
    • Visualization
      Le Thanh Ha
    • Writing – original draft
      Le Thanh Ha , Hoang Phuong Dung, Tran Anh Ngoc