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Institutionalising Judgement in Msme Support: A Uk-Vietnam Comparative Study in Agri-Tech

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Challenges: Business Dynamics in Disruptive Economy (ICECH 2025)

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  • Nigel Culkin

    (University of Hertfordshire)

  • Giang Nguyen Thuc Huong

    (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, School of Economics and Management)

  • Hanh Minh Thai

    (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, School of Economics and Management)

  • Derek Ong

    (University of Hertfordshire)

Abstract

Research purpose: To examine how mission-led MSME support can institutionalize expert judgement in accelerator settings. Research motivation: MSMEs in agri-tech face scientific uncertainty, regulatory complexity, and multi-actor delivery, conditions that make generic support models ineffective and call for adaptive, context-sensitive design. Research methodology: A structured, focused comparison of the UK SHAKE Climate Change programme and Vietnam initiatives. We specify five auditable routines, mission-framed selection with explicit decision rules, staged reviews, proportionate verification using short methods, compact evidence packs, and repository-led reuse, drawing on programme documents, secondary sources, and practitioner insight. Performance is operationalised via translation-task indicators, verified pull at award, time to first real context, evidence-pack reuse, pilot-to-contract conversion, and data-once-reuse-often maturity. Main findings: Where discretion is codified in visible routines and proportionate verification, routes to first real context shorten, evidence travels across decisions, and pilot-to-contract conversion improves. Variation in Vietnam reflects provincial capability and donor cycles, while the UK case shows gains when buyer and standards engagement are brokered early and archived evidence is reused. Practical and managerial implications: We offer a portable diagnostic and indicator set that helps delivery organisations publish criteria and decision rules, plan early buyer and standards routes, finance verification, and archive reusable evidence packs to reduce duplication. Originality/Value: The paper makes expert judgement auditable and portable by specifying five routines and a translation-task indicator set for mission-led MSME support, advancing a mechanism-centred alternative to generic ecosystem prescriptions.

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  • Nigel Culkin & Giang Nguyen Thuc Huong & Hanh Minh Thai & Derek Ong, 2026. "Institutionalising Judgement in Msme Support: A Uk-Vietnam Comparative Study in Agri-Tech," Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, in: Nguyen Danh Nguyen & Pham Thi Kim Ngoc (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Challenges: Business Dynamics in Disruptive Economy (ICECH 2025), pages 178-199, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:advbcp:978-94-6239-622-7_12
    DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6239-622-7_12
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