This paper studies the effect of ownership structure on firm performance of Vietnamese manufacturing companies listed on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) during 2007-2015. Ownership structure is examined in three disparate aspects: managerial ownership, block ownership and state ownership....

This is the first study to use the self-organisation (Kohonen) map technique, an artificial neural network based on a non-supervised learning algorithm, to categorise Vietnamese banks into super-class groups. Drawing on unbalanced yearly data from 2008 to 2017, this study identifies two...