This book is an exciting exploration of how firms in Vietnam have grown and developed their export strategies, contributing significantly to the country's amazing economic growth and poverty reduction. It is also a study of foreign firms' contributions, inter-cultural management, and strategies of linkages between local and transnational companies. The book provides new knowledge within international business and private sector development studies. It shows how cross-border economic organising can take place, for example, with global value chains in a country new to economic globalisation. The book is the outcome of research co-operation between two universities in Vietnam (National Economics University and Foreign Trade University) and two in Denmark (Copenhagen Business School and Aalborg University).