Research proposal Women’s Leadership and Entrepreneurship in Vietnam

RESEARCH PROPOSAL Women’s Leadership and Entrepreneurship in Vietnam Opportunities and Challenges to identify the changing role of business women in emerging economies which affect their career paths, promotion and achievable limitations

RESEARCH PROPOSAL:

Women’s Leadership and Entrepreneurship in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 3

2 Preliminary review of the literature 3

3 Methodology 5

3.1 Identification of paradigm 5

3.2 Justification for choice of methodology and methods 6

3.3 Scope of the research 6

3.4 Limitations of the research design 7

3.5 Ethical issues 7

4 Expected Outcomes and Timetable 7

REFERENCE 8

1 Introduction

This research proposal aims to identify the changing role of business women in emerging economies which affect their career paths, promotion and achievable limitations This proposal will emphasize on the changing roles of business women into women entrepreneurship in today's corporation in emerging country, focusing on Vietnam This proposal will try to explore the factors and obstacles that impact on their career advancement as well as promoting opportunities Therefore, in order to best serve this purpose, the conduct of research via journal and academic research about the business women, women entrepreneurship within corporation

in Vietnam will provide a broad knowledge about the topic

The remainder of this paper begins with the literature review, which discusses key literature elements, followed by the theoretical framework and research issues that fit into the report Next, it addresses paradigms, research strategies and data, research scope and limitations, and ethical problems in research methodology Eventually, the projections and milestones are discussed

2 Preliminary review of the literature

There are a number of selected literature reflecting the purpose of this research The selected literatures are focused on the roles of women in business in accordance with the opportunities and challenges toward their career path and promotion in Vietnam As an emerging nation in both economic and international relation, Vietnam is an appropriate country of research as the transitional period may impact on the women roles and employ-abilities

Author’s

surname (year

of publication)

Context (industry or sector covered by research)

Sample size or methodology used

Brief (2 short sentences at most) review of key results

Nimalathasan, B.

(2010)

Empowering women through entrepreneurship development in emerging economies

Secondary data, collected from research studies, books, journals, newspapers and

Women are becoming more individually and economically

empowered through business ownership or

ongoing academic working papers

entrepreunership development

Vietnam:

Vietnam leads

asia in women

leadership:

Deloitte global

(2017, Jun 27)

Vietnam leads asia in women leadership

Press release, Deloitte global report

Vietnam has the highest percentage of women leadership in Asia

Hong, K T

(2016)

Women and development

in vietnam: Caught between social tradition and economic globalization

In-depth interview with Khuat Thu Hong, Director of the Institute for Social

Development Studies

Although the role of women in Vietnam are increased and

protected by government policy, they are struggling with socio-economies from traditional perception

Vu, H T.,

Barnett, B.,

Duong, H T., &

Lee, T T (2019)

‘Delicate and durable’: An analysis of women’s leadership and media practices in vietnam

In-depth interviews were conducted with sixteen Vietnamese journalists

Although women are recognised as good leaders, they are limited in the perception of their family roles

An, N Q., &

Kazuyo, Y (2018)

Determinants of female's employment outcomes in vietnam

Secondary data from 2010 Vietnam Households Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) with 11.085 women aged 15 and older

Women employability

is increased, but the chance to get leadership roles is limited

who have a job Zhu, L., Kara,

O., Chu, H M.,

& Chu, A

(2015)

FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP:

VIETNAM

Survey: One hundred and seventy women entrepreneurs in Binh Duong and Binh Phuoc provinces

Women

entrepreneurship has received increasing attention, but they still face majot critical limitations

Regarding the reviews from listed above literatures, there is a assumption that the women and women entrepreneurship are empowered in emerging countries as a whole, and in Vietnam individually (Nimalathasan, 2010) Particularly, Vietnam has been a leading country for women taken the leader roles among Asia (Vietnam: Vietnam leads Asia in women leadership: Deloitte global 2017) Furthermore, in Vietnam, Women leader roles are highly regarded and valued However, there are some limitations and obstacles to enhance their promoting opportunities within their career path In a study, the author identified that the traditional perception of women’s roles in families is the major barrier limiting in broaden social roles (Vu, Barnett, Duong

& Lee, 2019) In a higher position levels, the workforce still maintain the in-confidence toward women entrepreneurship which leads to the difficulty in attracting employees in those business (Zhu, Kara, Chu, & Chu,2015)

3 Methodology

The methodology to be used in this research project will predominantly revolve across the possibility of using secondary data associated with qualitative research comprised of previous research paper on the topic, articles by highly credible authors, and finally data and statistics published in the case study Unique identities In this case, the roles and presence of entrepreneurial women or women will be seen in leadership in emerging countries I'll then collect all relevant qualitative data and secondary data to then do my own data analysis and draw my own conclusion the research project

3.2 Justification for choice of methodology and methods

Secondary research, particularly qualitative research is the most appropriate choice of mine in doing this research Secondary research is based on proven data that has been analyzed and filtered previously Qualitative analysis can come in many forms and have several advantages The research material published in the research reports and similar documents are included in the secondary research The public libraries, databases, data obtained from surveys already completes, respectively will make these documents available Many government and non-governmental agencies often store data, which can be used and processed for research purposes

The reasoning behind the use of secondary research is the fact that 6 months are not sufficient

to reflect the idea of a properly performed primary peer-check study Qualitative research is also easy for users to access, but secondary sources might have both deliberate and unconscious inconsistencies in each report (Sparrow, p 2014) Therefore, the use of several secondary sources over a long period of time will help to mitigate this possibility of prejudice to reduce the possibility of analyzing the use of preliminary data (Sparrow, P 2014)

Vietnam is the country selected to do the research on the women's leadership and entrepreneurship regarding the nature of its transitional periods of economics Vietnam is noted

as a significant emerging nation in Asia recently It leads to the integration in terms of business and perception in the society Therefore, the role of women in Vietnam has seen a rapid change Furthermore, the government policies are recently promoting and protecting the equality of women in the workforce which enhance the opportunities to women attending the business Hence, in Vietnam, the opportunities and challenges to business women are the integration of traditional concepts and internationalization Research on Vietnam economies would provide the image of the positive and negative aspects of women opportunities during a special period of an emerging nation

The scope of this research is a top down identification of the women leadership in Vietnam It would start with the nature of the economy condition that impact on the women’s leadership and entrepreneurship Then, the opportunities in both policies and economic factors on the women’s promoting aspects are explores It would be finalized with the major challenges to their career path The result of this research will then the discussion on predict of the future prospects of Vietnamese women’s leadership

3.4 Limitations of the research design

Although this research is conducted data published on authorized journals and sources, the research on the Vietnamese economies are limited There are not many researchers doing research on this nation Furthermore, secondary information may be changed over time from official publishing websites, which makes it difficult to compare data if it is not the same over time Documents may also be lacking in authenticity and validity, making it difficult to check if the data is partial If data collected for different research purposes is used, these samples cannot be considered in sufficient detail by the population researchers Administrative information not initially obtained for analysis may not be usable or accessible in the normal study formats

With respect to the ethical questions that may arise, the secondary data that I collect and analyze will be accurately cited in this study to avoid any plagiarism This study should be done with reliable resources that can be examined and analyzed in the context of the company problem

4 Expected Outcomes and Timetable

The expected outcomes from this research is to clarify three primary research objective Firstly,

it would express the nature and condition for the development of Women’s leadership and entrepreneurship in Vietnam Then, the research expects to figure out the opportunities toward women’s leadership enhancement and career advancement Finally, the obstacles in the transitional period of Vietnam impacting on Women’s leadership opportunities will be explored

In order to accomplish the above expected outcomes, the timetable below is the schedule for the different stage of the research that need to follow

Activity Plan

start

Plan duration

Number

of week

Jan-2019

Feb-2019

Mar-2019

Apr-2019

Identifying

Important

Literature

Analysis of

current

literature

Looking for

other

literature

Analysis of

new

literatures

Compiling

data into

drought

draft

Creation of

Meeting

Creation of

Meeting

Creation of

Finalisation

and

submission

REFERENCE

An, N Q., & Kazuyo, Y (2018) Determinants of female's employment outcomes in vietnam

Journal of International Women's Studies, 19(5), 95-112 Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.dbonline.cesti.gov.vn/docview/2057938734?accountid=39958

Hong, K T (2016) Women and development in vietnam: Caught between social tradition and

economic globalization Regions & Cohesion, 6(2), 110-119

doi:http://dx.doi.org.dbonline.cesti.gov.vn/10.3167/reco.2016.060207

Nimalathasan, B (2010) Empowering women through entrepreneurship development in

emerging economies Universitatii Bucuresti.Analele.Seria Stiinte Economice Si

Administrative, 4, 63-70 Retrieved from

https://search-proquest-com.dbonline.cesti.gov.vn/docview/1672864431?accountid=39958

Sparrow, P (2014) Secondary Market Research: Advantages and Disadvantages [online] Ianswer4u.com Available at:

https://www.ianswer4u.com/2012/05/secondary-market-research-advantages.html

Vietnam: Vietnam leads asia in women leadership: Deloitte global (2017, Jun 27) Asia News

Monitor Retrieved from

https://search-proquest-com.dbonline.cesti.gov.vn/docview/1913383997?accountid=39958

Zhu, L., Kara, O., Chu, H M., & Chu, A (2015) FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EVIDENCE

FROM VIETNAM Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, 26(3), 103-128 Retrieved from

https://search-proquest-com.dbonline.cesti.gov.vn/docview/1679958985?accountid=39958