Trade and Entrepreneurship in Vietnam's High Growth Enterprises

This paper studies the role of international trade and openness in support of local entrepreneurship in high growth enterprises in Vietnam during its fast development in the past two decades. In addition to descriptive analysis of historical data, the paper develops a new methodology, the endogenous enterprise growth model, to empirically explore the major global engines and barriers to an enterprise growth. Best practice policy for sustainable business development, regional co-operation and crisis management is finally recommended for informed debate and policy implementation analysis.