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 magnitude of how health policy implementation performance is taking route at the national level is a very important issue as far as world population levels in relation to future workforces are concerned. These require properly implementation of health policy by the respective governments. However, it is noteworthy that not all countries have the same factors affecting health policy implementation. This study concerns the examination of the situation of primary health care at the sub-district level in Bangladesh. Hence, the specific purpose ...

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 ...