Vào 14h00 ngày 20/06/2025 tại P501 Nhà A2, Đại học Kinh tế Quốc dân tổ chức lễ bảo vệ luận án tiến sĩ cho NCS Nguyễn Thu Hương, chuyên ngành Kinh tế học (bằng tiếng Anh), với đề tài “Adoption of eco-innovation by agricultural co-operatives in Vietnam “.
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE DISSERTATION
- Dissertation title: Adoption of eco-innovation by agricultural co-operatives in Vietnam
- Specialization: Economics (E-PhD)
- Specialization code: 9310101
- PhD candidate: Nguyen Thu Huong
- Supervisor: Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Thanh Ha
- Institution: National Economics University
Original contributions on academic and theoretical aspects
This dissertation makes four significant theoretical contributions to the existing literature.
Firstly, despite growing interest in eco-innovation, there remains a lack of empirical research that applies a comprehensive theoretical framework integrating its various drivers—such as external context, firm-level characteristics. Addressing this gap, the research applies the Motivation–Opportunity–Ability (MOA) framework to examine how factors related to motivation, opportunity, and ability influence the adoption of eco-innovation across three types of agricultural cooperatives: technology-driven, market-driven, and authority-driven. By doing so, this research contributes to the eco-innovation literature by establishing a theoretical link between external contextual factors and internal organizational capabilities, offering an integrated understanding of the conditions that support successful eco-innovation adoption.
Secondly, this dissertation contributes to the literature on eco-innovation as there is limited research investigating how agricultural co-operatives implement eco-innovation. Specifically, it explores how the underlying drivers behind the formation of agricultural co-operatives influence the ways in which they adopt eco-innovation. The study identifies three distinct modes of eco-innovation adoption, each corresponding to a specific type of co-operative: technology-driven, market-driven, and authority-driven. By examining these modes, the research outlines the implementation steps, highlights the challenges faced, and identifies the support mechanisms required for the successful adoption of eco-innovation within each co-operative type.
Thirdly, this study extends the Natural Resource-Based View (Hart, 1995) in the context of agricultural co-operatives. By doing this, this study also contributes to the eco-innovation literature as there is a lack of agreement among scholars about the empirical impact of eco-innovation on the economic performance of organizations.
Lastly, previous studies have primarily focused on external moderating variables, such as market turbulence and environmental instability, in examining the relationship between eco-innovation and firm performance. However, there is a noticeable lack of research on the boundary conditions related to ability-based factors that may moderate this relationship, particularly in the context of agricultural co-operatives. This research, therefore, contributes to theory development by suggesting the contingent effects of ability-related factors, including financial capital, green human capital and external social capital on the relationship between eco-innovation and economic performance as the contingent effects of these factors have been overlooked in the previous research.
Recommendations derived from the findings of the dissertation
This research identifies three types of agricultural co-operatives—technology-driven, market-driven, and authority-driven—each characterized by specific MOA configurations and corresponding eco-innovation modes. Findings also show that eco-innovation positively impacts economic performance. Moreover, this relationship is contingent on ability-related factors, including financial capital, green human capital, and external social capital. This research, therefore, recommends co-operatives to increase investment in eco-innovations. Moreover, co-operative managers need to tailor their strategies based on the co-operative type and corresponding eco-innovation mode to effectively adopt and implement eco-innovation. In addition, co-operatives should leverage their financial capital, green human capital, and external social capital to maximize the economic benefits of eco-innovation. Governments should play a supportive role by stimulating market demand, encouraging vertical and horizontal cooperation, and providing financial, technical, marketing, and human resource support to facilitate eco-innovation adoption and promote the sustainable development of agricultural cooperatives.
TÀI LIỆU ĐÍNH KÈM: Nguyen Thu Huong
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