The objective of this dissertation is to study the firm-, industry-, and countrylevel factors influencing the capital structures of the listed firms in ASEAN. The 3,750 samples are collected annually for 12 years from 2000 to 2011, resulting in 45,000 firm-year observations. The pooled ordinary least squared regression is used in the analysis for all combined three-level features. The leverage measures cover various proxies of capital structures. The evidence shows that firm size and tangibility are significantly and positively related to ...

This study attempts to propose and examine a theoretical conceptual model that investigates the causal effects of hotel frontline employees’ perceptions of human resource (HR) practices, supervisor support, and coworker support, influencing on organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) towards job performance in the context of four-star hotels in Phuket, Thailand. The mediating effects of OCB are also highlighted. HR practices in this study are in a form of high-performance work practices (HPWPs) consisting of selective staffing, rewards, training, ...

This research utilizes the mixed method research with the objectives to develop and to examine the consistency between the causal model of factors affecting Thai customers loyalty towards e-commerce business and the empirical data, furthermore to explore the opinions of academics and online marketers in relating to the marketing communication factors influencing Thai customers loyalty to e-commerce business. The research method has been divided consecutively into two parts which are; Part 1: the quantitative research conducting survey methodology ...

The research was done in Bangkok Thailand due to high competition and the presence of a majority of Thailand’s health establishments, which aims to 1) review market orientation, extended market orientation and strategic management affecting health establishment performance in Bangkok 2) to study the relationship between market orientation, extended market orientation and strategic management affecting health establishment performance in Bangkok 3) to investigate of concept for causal relation model of market orientation and extended market ...

This study has the following four objectives: 1) to examine the nature of intervention on local government organization through public policy; 2) to determine the implications of central government intervention with regards to contents and execution of the local government development plans; 3) to investigate the patterns of local government adaptation in response to central government intervention; and 4) to study local government organizations’ problems and obstacles, and identify recommendations that may be useful to management of ...

Even though topics related to child labor and school dropout have been studied worldwide, little attention has focused on child labor and school dropout in the least-developed countries. This paper examines the impact of child labor on school dropout by using national representative data from the Labor Force and First Child Labor survey in the Lao PDR, which serves as a case study of a least-developed country. The endogeneity of child labor to school dropout was controlled by using an average wage of children by province as an instrumental variable. ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate influences and correlations between the Christian faith and English language teaching in Thailand. Central research questions explore the religious beliefs leading Evangelical Christian teachers to integrate their Christian faith and how the participants make such integrations into their classroom management strategies. Fifteen missionary teachers in a Christian language school in Bangkok were selected for this investigation. Data were obtained by semi-structure interviews. Results have revealed ...

The research is aimed for three objectives:  1) To study communication methods of professional trainers in organizing training, 2) to study training communication factors that affect training effectiveness of business organizations, and 3) to test the researcher’s developed structural equation model of latent variables, namely professional trainers’ qualifications and competence, training environmental management, trainees, and training effectiveness, with empirical data.   Mixed methods of qualitative and quantitative research were conducted. ...

The research has the four objectives as follows: 1. To examine and develop a causal model of factors influencing of Demographic characteristics, Communication skills, Attitude toward Thai people, Interpersonal communication and Media usage behavior to be affected the foreign football players' adjustment in Thailand league football clubs. 2. The analysis of the direct effect, indirect effect and total effect, is focused on testing the Demographic characteristics, Communication skills, Attitude toward Thai people, Interpersonal communication ...