In 2012 Vietnam recorded that around 55.000 enterprises went bankrupt. Currently, only 312.600 enterprises are still in operation outof the 694.000 enterprises established since the enactment of Vietnam’s Law on Enterprises in 1999. This paper presents the results of an empirical study of business leaders through business decisions they made during 2008-2012 to ensure their companies’ survival; their forecast and expectations for when the recession is over and the competencies needed for successful leadership in times of recession.
An issues to be taken in consideration in Vietnam’s higher education is a lack of education-industry linkage. To promote this linkage, the acticle goes to a deep analysis of benefits for two sides, mechanism of linkage and conditions for a success. The benefits are a cost-saving thanks to an access to needed human resource for the busineses on the one hand and a final framework of requested skills as well as an assisstance in financial resource for schools. Mechanism of linkage is start from bussinesses with an identification of skill package and then school will work with business to define training technology and other training inputs. However, for a sucessful linkage attentions sho...
