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Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues Open access
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Received: 2025-09-11  |  Accepted: 2025-12-02  |  Published: 2025-12-30

Title

Factors affecting digital entrepreneurship: a case study of Vietnamese women


Abstract

Digital business has become a dominant trend in today's digital era. This study aims to explore and identify the key factors influencing digital entrepreneurship among Vietnamese women. A quantitative research approach was used, employing a structured questionnaire to survey 527 women entrepreneurs in Vietnam. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS 26 software. The results indicate that personal and professional characteristics, digital entrepreneurial capabilities, digital consumer behavior, digital infrastructure, digital interactions, and government policies all have a positive influence on digital entrepreneurship intentions. Of these, government policies have the most significant impact, while digital consumer behavior has the least influence. Based on these findings, the study offers several recommendations to better support and promote digital entrepreneurship among Vietnamese women.


Keywords

digital entrepreneurship, digital technology, Vietnamese women


JEL classifications

L26 , M13 , M21


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/1387


DOI


Pages

478-488


Funding


This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Nguyen, Nam Danh
Thanh Dong University, Hai Phong, Vietnam https://thanhdong.edu.vn
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

13


Number

2


Issue date

December 2025


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Cited

Google Scholar

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