Factors Affecting the Achievement of Environmental Standard Certificates (ESC) at Small and Medium Vietnamese Enterprises

Abstract

This research focuses on factors affecting the ability to achieve Environmental Standards Certification (ESC) at Vietnamese small and medium enterprises. Logit regression was used with crossectional data of 2649 Vietnamese small and medium enterprises. The results show that customer requirement, administration level, owner/manager characteristics (ethnicity and environmental law knowledge), the type of firms, the size of enterprises, government inspection, and union affect the ability to achieve ESC. From the results, some solutions have been suggested in order to increase the ability to obtain ESC of small and medium enterprises and thus contribute to Vietnam's environmental protection.