caa a22 4500 467939802 CHVBK 20180406153008.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10490-006-7167-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10490-006-7167-8 Getting bank financing: A study of Vietnamese private firms [Elektronische Daten] [Ngoc Le, Sundar Venkatesh, Thang Nguyen] Private firms in transition economies are operating in an extremely uncertain environment, with underdeveloped market institutions, poorly defined property rights, and absence of reliable business data. This raises a very basic question of how owners of these firms persuade bankers to make much needed loans. This study employs an institutional perspective and argues that firms' legitimacy positively influences their accessibility to bank financing. Specifically, this study develops a model that links networking, professional management practices, and growth stage with bank financing and tests that model using a sample of Vietnamese private firms. The results support the hypotheses that growth stage and networking greatly influence firms' accessibility to bank financing, and that the impact of networking on financing is contingent on the growth stage. Springer Science + Business Media, LLC, 2006 Vietnam nationallicence Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) nationallicence Bank financing nationallicence Le Ngoc NEU Business School, National Economics University, Giai Phong Road, Hanoi, Vietnam aut Venkatesh Sundar Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand aut Nguyen Thang NEU Business School, National Economics University, Giai Phong Road, Hanoi, Vietnam aut Asia Pacific Journal of Management Kluwer Academic Publishers 23/2(2006-06-01), 209-227 0217-4561 23:2<209 2006 23 10490 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-006-7167-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-006-7167-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Le Ngoc NEU Business School, National Economics University, Giai Phong Road, Hanoi, Vietnam aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Venkatesh Sundar Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nguyen Thang NEU Business School, National Economics University, Giai Phong Road, Hanoi, Vietnam aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Asia Pacific Journal of Management Kluwer Academic Publishers 23/2(2006-06-01), 209-227 0217-4561 23:2<209 2006 23 10490 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer