The objectives of the study were 1) to determine the critical factors that affect the buyer-supplier collaboration in Thai public and private hospitals, and 2) to test the causal relations in a structural equation model for the buyer-supplier collaboration framework. The unit of analysis was at the organizational level. The methodology was divided into 3 steps: (1) review of the buyer-supplier collaboration phenomena and relevant literature to develop a theoretical model of buyer-supplier collaboration in Thai public and private hospitals; ...

The thesis entitled “Factors affecting Health Outcomes: Case Study of Lowand Middle-Income Countries” was aimed at investigating the factors influencing health outcomes in two dimensions: 1) Conventional health status, the indicator of which was the under-five morality rate per 1,000 live births and 2) Health equity, the indicator of which was the under-five morality rate per 1,000 live births in the wealthiest class divided by the under-five morality rate per 1,000 live births in the poorest group of the population in the country. Secondary ...

The research objectives were: to investigate energy consumption and the energy saving practices, to examine significant factors contributing to energy consumption and energy saving practices in the residential sector, and to suggest policies for urban energy management in Bangkok. Research methodology used survey research and theoretical framework of urban energy management in cities. The samples were taken from 1,150 households by multi-stage sampling, totaling 15 districts of the BMA: 6 inner zone districts, 5 middle zone districts, and 4 outer ...

The main objective of this study is, firstly, to empirically test the proposed model in order to ascertain the nature of any causal relationship between the exogenous variables of transformational leadership (TFL) and the job characteristic (JC), with psychological empowerment (PE) as the mediating variable, upon the endogenous variable which is job involvement. The secondary objective of this study is then to demonstrate how, and to what extent, the concept of job involvement can be statistically explained by these parameters. Bass and ...

This study investigates the effects of factors related to organizational effectiveness on administrators and faculty members in nursing institutes under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of University Affairs. The survey instruments were distributed to six public and seven private nursing institutes. / The response rate was 77.92 percent. The sample groups were divided according to roles of administrators and faculty members. Eight factors: environment, technology, leadership style, culture, strategic planning, human resource development, structural ...

The purpose of this study was twofold: 1) to explore the capacity and the performance levels of public higher education institutions in Thailand, and 2) to investigate the determinants of the capacity and performance level. The unit of analysis was public higher education institutions in Thailand which were categorized into 4 types: autonomous universities, public universities, Rajabhat universities, and Rajamangala universities. The sample was selected by multi-stage random sampling from the population of 78 universities. The sample of 63 ...