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 Introduction Preliminary review of the literature 3 Methodology 3.1 Identification of paradigm .5 3.2 Justification for choice of methodology and methods 3.3 Scope of the research 3.4 Limitations of the research design .7 3.5 Ethical issues Expected Outcomes and Timetable REFERENCE 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 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 sector covered research) or by Sample size or Brief (2 short methodology sentences at most) used review of key results Nimalathasan, B Empowering Women are becoming (2010) women Secondary data, through entrepreneurship collected from development in emerging research studies, economies books, journals, more individually and newspapers and business ownership or economically empowered through Vietnam: Vietnam leads asia in women Vietnam leads asia women leadership ongoing academic entrepreunership working papers development in Press release, Vietnam has the Deloitte global highest percentage of report women leadership in Asia leadership: Deloitte global (2017, Jun 27) Hong, K T (2016) Women and development In-depth interview in vietnam: Caught with Khuat Thu between social tradition and economic globalization Hong, Director of the Institute for Although the role of women in Vietnam are increased and protected by Social government policy, Development they are struggling with Studies socio-economies from traditional perception Vu, H T., Barnett, B., Duong, H T., & Lee, T T (2019) ‘Delicate and durable’: An In-depth interviews analysis of women’s were conducted leadership and media with sixteen practices in vietnam 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 Secondary data Women employability employment outcomes in from 2010 Vietnam is increased, but the vietnam Households Living chance to get Standards Survey (VHLSS) with 11.085 women aged 15 and older leadership roles is limited who have a job Zhu, L., Kara, O., Chu, H M., & Chu, A FEMALE Survey: One ENTREPRENEURSHIP: hundred and EVIDENCE FROM VIETNAM seventy women (2015) entrepreneurs in Binh Duong and Women entrepreneurship has received increasing attention, but they still face majot critical limitations Binh Phuoc provinces 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) Methodology 3.1 Identification of paradigm 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 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 nongovernmental 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 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 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 3.3 Scope of the research 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 3.5 Ethical issues 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 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 Plan Number Jan- Feb- Mar- Apr- start duration of week 2019 2019 2019 2019 Identifying Important Literature Analysis of current literature Looking for other 10 11 12 13 literature Analysis of new literatures Compiling data into drought draft Creation of first draft Meeting supervisor Creation of 2nd draft Meeting supervisor Creation of final draft 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://searchproquest-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 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