MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
FOREIGN TRADE UNIVERSITY
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SUMMARY OF PHD THESIS
STUDYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADERSHIP SKILLS
AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE OF VIETNAMESE TEXTILE AND
GARMENT COMPANIES
Field: Business Administration
Code: 9340101
TR N TH BÍCH NHUNGẦ Ị
THIS THESIS IS COMPLETED AT: ......................................................................
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Supervisor: ASSOC. PROF, DR NGUYEN XUAN MINH
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This thesis will be defended at:
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LIST OF AUTHOR’S PAPERS
1. Tran Thi Bich Nhung, 2017, Criteria for evaluating business performance
of Vietnamese textile enterprises, Foreign Economic Review, No. 95/2017,
ISSN 1859 - 4050.
2. Tran Thi Bich Nhung, 2018, Leadership skills of enterprises in Ho Chi
Minh City, Foreign Economic Review, No. 102/2018, ISSN 1859 - 4050.
3. Tran Thi Bich Nhung, Tran Thi Phuong Thuy, 2018, Vietnam’s textile and
garment industry: an overview, Business & IT, Vol. VIII(2), pp. 45-53,
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14311/bit.2018.02.05.
4. Tran Thi Bich Nhung, Le Thai Phong, 2019, The effects of leadership skills
on firm performance: The case of textile and garment firms in
Vietnam. Management Science Letters, 9(12), pp.2121-2130.
5. Tran Thi Bich Nhung, 2019, Leadership skills: a study in Hochiminh City,
Vietnam, Business & IT, Vol. IX(2), pp. 29-40, DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14311/bit.2019.02.03.
6. Tran Thi Bich Nhung, Lê Thai Phong, 2020, Leadership skills at Vietnam
Textile and Garment enterprises, Vietnam Journal for Indian and Asian
Studies, No 3 (88) March/2020, ISSN 0866-7314.
7. TABLE OF CONTENTS
8. LIST OF TABLE AND FIGURE
9. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION....................................................................1
1.1 Reason for choosing the topic ............................................................................1
1.2 Literature review.................................................................................................1
1.2.1 Researches related to leadership skills................................................................1
1.2.2 Researches related to business performance of companies.................................2
1.2.3 Relationship between leadership skills and leadership effectiveness, business
performance of the company...............................................................................2
1.3 Overview of the research situation and identify research gaps ......................3
1.4 Purpose and research mission............................................................................3
1.5 Research questions .............................................................................................3
1.6 Subject and scope of the study ...........................................................................3
1.7 Research methodology .......................................................................................4
1.8 Thesis structure ..................................................................................................4
10.........................................................................................Conclusion of chapter 1
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11. CHAPTER 2: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH
MODEL ............................................................................................................5
2.1 Theoretical foundations of leadership skills ......................................................5
2.1.1 Leadership and leader definition ........................................................................5
2.1.2 Leadership skill definition .................................................................................5
2.1.3 Levels of leaders.................................................................................................5
2.1.4 Elements of Leadership skills ............................................................................5
2.2 Theoritical foundations of performance ...........................................................6
2.2.1 Business performance definition.........................................................................6
2.2.2 Performance measurement system......................................................................7
