Environmental Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Vietnam: Characteristics and Determinants of Success

The paper identifies and analyses characteristics, determinants of pollution abatement activities of manufacturing firm in Vietnam to meet environmental protection requirements. Logistic models are used for a number of newest sub-datasets of enterprise annual survey conducted by Vietnam General Statistic Office, covering approximate 5000 manufacturing firm in Vietnam in the year 2009. The study reveals that small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or private-owned enterprises (non-SOEs) have made greater efforts to reduce emission as compared to the large ones (LEs) or state-owned, foreign investment enterprises (SOEs, FIEs) respectively. However the former sector has been less successful than the latter in satisfying environment standards. Environmental system management, firm size, environmental staffs, the foreign firms are the driving forces for firm becoming the government environmentally or ISO 14001 certified. In contracts, private local ownership, fluid and solid emission volume has significantly negative sign of coefficient. Firm's pollution abatement expenditure, in both absolute and relative terms, is not the important factors for its pollution treatment success.

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