1. Full name: Do Thi Van Dung                          2. Sex: woman

3. Date of birth: 02/12/1987                                4. Place of birth: Vinh Phuc province

5. Admission decision number: 2260/QĐ-ĐHKT - 22/06/2015

6. Changes in academic process:

- Decision No. 3811/QD-ĐHKT dated December 29, 2017 on adjustment of doctoral thesis scientific instructors;

- Pursuant to Decision No. 3702/QD-ĐHKT dated December 28, 2018 on allowing PhD students to extend the time in the training program;

- Pursuant to Decision No. 4270/QD-ĐHKT dated December 31, 2020 of the Rector of the University of Economics on the return of PhD students to working agencies or localities;

- Pursuant to Decision No. 4098/QD-ĐHKT dated December 22, 2021 on allowing PhD student Do Thi Van Dung to return to the University to defend the thesis;

7. Official thesis title: Factors affecting the financial capacity of small and medium enterprises in the context of integration

8. Major:           Finance – Banking                                 9. Code: 9340201.01

10. Supervisors: Ass. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Hieu

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis: Systematize the theoretical basis of financial capacity and factors affecting the financial capacity of small and medium enterprises; Identify the criteria to measure the financial capacity of Vietnam’s small and medium enterprises; Develop a model to analyze the impacts of factors on the financial capacity of Vietnam’s small and medium enterprises.

12. Practical applicability: The research results help to determine the impact of factors on the financial capacity of Vietnam’s small and medium enterprises; compare the different characteristics of financial capacity of Vietnam’s small and medium enterprises. Accordingly, several recommendations for businesses and regulatory agencies are proposed in order to enhance the financial capacity of Vietnam’s small and medium enterprises.

13. Further research directions:

* About content:

- Expanding influencing factors: human resource factors, enterprise technology or macro environmental factors, industry environment, etc.

- Expanding the indicators to measure the financial performance of enterprises: ROS, ROCE, CPR or Z-score criteria if studying about equitized enterprises.

* About the method:

- The research sample of 400 enterprises in the 5-year period from 2015 to 2019 as in the thesis, although it has met the requirements, is not a large number, especially the time field can be extended to 10 years. In addition, the information fields are collected from secondary data sources of the General Statistics Office, so there are many limitations when it is not possible to obtain more accurate data (for example, the ratio of export revenue to total revenue). revenue, share price for joint stock enterprises, etc.)

- Data collection method: Improved by direct survey or interview with enterprises combined with the current secondary data collection method.

14. Thesis-related publications:

- Do Thi Van Dung, Nguyen Van Viet, (2018). Integration of small and medium enterprises into the global value chain – Principles and best practices. Asia-Pacific Journal No. 521 July 2018 [pp. 50 – Tr51].

- Do Thi Van Dung, (2018). Integrated Small and Medium Enterprises in Global Value Chain Based on The Best Principle and Plan. The Journal of Middle East and North Africa Sciences. April 2018 [page 9 – p10].

- Do Thi Van Dung, (2020). Benefits of e-commerce in Vietnam in the current period. Asia-Pacific Magazine No. 568 July 2020 [pp. 22 - p.23].

- Do Thi Van Dung, Dao Truong Thanh, (2020). Evaluation of Financial Capacity of small and medium enterprises in Hanoi. International journal of multidisciplinary research and analysis May 2020 [p 602 – tr607].

- Nguyen Hoai Anh, Do Thi Van Dung and Nguyen Dieu Linh, (2021). Evaluation of the Profitability of Construction Firms Listed on the Hanoi Stock Exchange. Asian journal of economics and Finance10/2021 [tr373-tr383].