1. Full name: Tran Long

2. Sex: Male

3. Date of birth: 16/03/1976

4. Place of birth: Thanh Hoa

5. Admission decision number: 4741/QĐ-ĐHKT dated 11 November 2014

6. Changes in academic process: there is no any change during academic process.

7. Official thesis title: Strategic management of Vietnamese State Owned Commercial Banks after equalization: The case study of the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam.

8. Major: Banking - Finance

9. Code: 62 34 02 01

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11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

The thesis reviews relevant literature on strategic management of commercial banks, identified factors affecting strategic management, most related strategic management models as well as strategic management practices in several different countries. Hence, the author developed a theoretical framework, research hypotheses, strategic management model which is applicable to equitized state-owned commercial banks in Vietnam. The proposed model is a useful model for commercial banks in Vietnam to refer to in order to formulate and implement their strategies. Based on that, the author carried out an assessment of current strategic management practices of BIDV. The result showed that basically BIDV’s strategic management is in line with relevant literature, the proposed model as well as best practices. However, there were still several aspects need to be considered for improvement and adjustment.

Applying the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) based on the Partial Least Squares (PLS) approach, the author conducts a test to measure impacts of six factors on strategic management (including macro-environment, competitiveness, bank reputation, bank resources, structure of ownership, management style) of which bank reputation is a new factor proposed by the author to include in estimation model. The study also conducts a back test to estimate the relationship between strategic management and bank‘s performance (including financial result, customer satisfaction, employee productivity, growth rate, bank reputation).

The result of the model estimation shows that there are statistical significantly relationships between six hypothesis - factors and strategic management; the six factors have impact on strategic management to different degrees. Bank reputation has strongest positive impact on strategic management. Other factors have positive impacts on strategic management are ranked from the highest to the lowest including macro-environment, bank resources, management style, competitiveness. Meanwhile, the ownership structure has negative impact on strategic management. The back test result reveals that application of strategic management has positive impact on all factors of bank performance including financial result, customer satisfaction, employee productivity, growth rate and bank reputation.

The research concludes with a number of recommendations and highly applicable solutions to help Vietnamese commercial banks in general and BIDV in particular to improve strategic management practices.

12. Practical applicability:

The clarification of the strategic management of BIDV then comparing with the proposed model, the relevant literature and international practices will be the foundation for other commercial banks, especially equitized state-owned commercial banks, to consider applying in their strategic management system. Strategic management model and solutions proposed by the author are highly applicable in practice, especially in the context of globalization and international economic integration, while the equitized state-owned commercial banks are implementing Phase 2 of Restructuring Project which are focusing on strengthening financial capacity, improving capacity of corporate governance and management in accordance with international best practices, striving to have at least one to two commercial banks standing in the top 100 largest banks in Asia.

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