Vietnam Symposium in Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Innovation 2025

8:00 - 8:30 (30min)

Registration & Coffee

Conference Hall

8:30 - 9:30 (1h)

Digital Technologies, Business Model Innovation & Innovation Ecosystem Management in Institutionalized Industries

Ballroom

Keynote Speech 2 - Professor Wim Vanhaverbeke

9:30 - 10:00 (30min)

Coffee break

Conference Hall

10:00 - 11:30 (1h30)

D1: Household Finance

Ballroom

Chou Shu-Ching, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan

› The Impact of Tax Reform on Corporate Real Estate Investment - Chou Shu-Ching, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Present Bias, Fast Cash Loans, and Financial Literacy in the United States - Wang Solomon, St Mary's University, United States 11:00-11:30 (30min)

10:00 - 11:30 (1h30)

D2: Sustainability and Risk Management

Apricot Room

Woon Leong Lin, Taylor's University, Malaysia

› The Green Fallacy: Investigating the Relationship between Greenwashing and Firm Risk - Bhutani Bhagya, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› The Impact of Eco-Product and Eco-Process Innovation on Sustainability Risk Management in the Malaysian Furniture Industry: The Moderating Role of Market Turbulence - Woon Leong Lin, Taylor's University, Malaysia 11:00-11:30 (30min)

10:00 - 11:30 (1h30)

D3: Entrepreneurship and Alternative Finance

Orchid Room

Toth Russell, University of Sydney, Australia

› Payment Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Racial Disparities: Evidence from Money Service Business - Tran Hieu, University of Massachusetts, United States 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Incentivizing Customer Referrals for Bank Loans to Female Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Vietnam - Toth Russell, University of Sydney, Australia 10:30-11:00 (30min)

› Does Labor Market Flow Help or Hurt Firm Innovation? Evidence from OECD Countries - Nguyen Yen Ngoc, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada 11:00-11:30 (30min)

11:30 - 12:30 (1h)

E: Publishing in Entrepreneurship and Management: Editors’ Insights

Ballroom

Special Session - Mai Thai, Director of the Social Business Creation, HEC Montreal, Canada

12:30 - 14:00 (1h30)

Lunch Break

Conference Hall

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

F1: Boards, ESG, and Firm Performance

Ballroom

Dinh Minh, University of Inland Norway, Norway

› Does Female Presence on Corporate Boards matter for Firm`s Cost of Equity? Evidence from Indian Firms - Bhagawan Praveen, Krea University, India 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Earnings Management as an outcome of failure to reduce post-acquisition agency cost - Gopalaswamy Arun Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› The Impact of ESG Risk on Stock Returns, and risks: An Empirical Analysis of the Energy Sector - Dinh Minh, University of Inland Norway, Norway 15:00-15:30 (30min)

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

F2: ESG and Sustainable Finance

Apricot Room

Song Jun Myung, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

› Spillovers between green bonds, oil, and stock markets in the U.S and the European stock markets - Al-Yahyaee Khamis, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; Muscat University, Oman 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› The Economic and Financial Implications of Land and Water Pollution: Evidence from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake - Song Jun Myung, Hitotsubashi University, Japan 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Barriers to the expansion of community off-grid solar systems: Evidence from rural India - Thaker Keyur, Indian Institute of Management Indore, India 15:00-15:30 (30min)

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

F3: Entrepreneurship and Financial Innovation

Orchid Room

Choudhary Priya, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

› ENTREPRENEURIAL RESILIENCE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SERIAL ENTREPRENEURS, HYBRID ENTREPRENEURS, AND NON-ENTREPRENEURS - Hanif Muhammad Shehzad, University of Central Punjab, Pakistan 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Impact of Mobile Banking on Liquidity and Credit Risk - Choudhary Priya, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India 14:30-15:00 (30min)