ผลงานวิชาการ พ.ศ. 2568

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    Cities and sustainability: Exploring contributions, opportunities and challenges of smart city implementation towards social sustainability
    Dhiyathad Prateeppornnarong (2025-03)
    The past few decades have witnessed the smart city concept's worldwide popularity as the way forward for struggling with urban issues and challenges, bringing about sustainability of cities. Smart city implementation, however, has been researched chiefly within the context of major cities where the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and connectivity is readily available and reliable. In contrast, little was known of smart city implementation in many other fast-growing secondary cities. Drawing from the concept of social sustainability, this research seeks to explore contributions, opportunities and challenges of smart city implementation towards social sustainability of secondary cities in developing countries, using Udon Thani – a fast-growing secondary city of upper northeastern Thailand – as a research context. Grounded in 42 in-depth interviews, the findings show that smart city implementation contributes to social sustainability of Udon Thani in terms of enhancing the safety of the public, the provision of public services and offering opportunities for building a better urban society. Nevertheless, low public awareness of smart city development, inadequate collaboration between different sectors in the locality, and a lack of a smart city plan are posing significant challenges to smart city implementation, reflecting that the development of a smart city project in Udon Thani is not based on a holistic approach; hence, the implementation of the project is decidedly patchy. This research argues that the achievement of smart city implementation relies upon a holistic and multidimensional approach, taking into account integrated urban planning, cross-sector collaboration, marketing campaign strategies and the identification of context-specific instruments.
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    Governance through regulation: Assessing the contribution of a regulatory framework towards the quality of social enterprise governance
    Dhiyathad Prateeppornnarong (2025-07-26)
    The governance of social enterprises through a specific regulatory framework is one of the modes of social enterprise governance. This research paper seeks to investigate the regulatory framework for social enterprises in Thailand, answering to what extent does the existing regulatory framework contribute to the quality of social enterprise governance in the country? Through the adoption of the qualitative approach, promotion of social enterprises and mitigation of mission drift are determined as the core themes of the findings whereas the institionalisation of the social enterprise ecosystem, access to funding, the certification of social enterprises, the distribution of net profit, and social impact measurement are the relevant sub-themes. Based on the findings, it is argued that the existing regulatory framework for social enterprises contributes towards the quality of Thailand’s social enterprise governance to a limited extent due to regulatory failure. Regulatory reforms of the existing framework are therefore recommended with an emphasis on a lessening of the intensity of regulation on entry, modifications of a distributable profit cap and strengthening regulatory capacity of the regulatory bodies.