This book presents a comprehensive overview of managers and management in Vietnam, based on extensive original research, including interviews with a large number of managers in Vietnam. It shows how management in Vietnam is best understood from the perspective of Vietnamese managers themselves, rather than in terms of Western or Asian models of management.

Vincent Edwards is Emeritus Professor of International Management at Buckinghamshire New University, and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Anh Phan is Associate Dean of the School of Business Administration, International University, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City

1. Introduction 2. Philosophical Foundations 3. The Evolution and Structure of the Vietnamese Economy 4. Company Contexts 5. The Evolution of Vietnamese Management 6. Sense and Sensibility 7. Development and Self-development: Organizational Insights (1) 8. Development and Self-development: Organizational Insights (2) 9. Development and Self-development: East and West 10. Characterizing Vietnamese Managers and Management 11. Whither Vietnamese management?