We live in the world today that is increasingly becoming more interlinked and interdependent among each other resulting in complex and dynamic socio-political situations. In such context, any development strategies and policies of one country can have both a direct and indirect impact not only upon its neighboring countries, but also the sub-region or the whole region where that country is located. Due to the intense connectedness, a concept of collaboration has gained much attention in field of international relations and politics as wel...

The purpose of this study is to develop a model of the factors affecting information technology adoption and to determine the relationship between the adoption and revenue-generating performance of municipalities. Regarding to the level of IT adoption, in this study, municipalities were classified into four group which are laggard, reactive, active, and proactive. Based on an integration of institutional theory, resource dependence theory, innovation theory, and literature reviews, the study proposed that technological, organizational, an...

Commercial banks in Thailand face many challenging tasks such as new regulations that impact business operations, the rapid adoption of digital banking by consumers. Commercial banks have employed a matrix organizational structure, combined with a flexible modern working practice. All these changes affect the form of organization that increase employees’ responsibilities and more autonomy than in the past. Employees have to perform multiple tasks which has led to increased levels of work stress. Additionally, employees need to acquire mor...

An extensive literature on local environmental sustainability has addressed the importance of governments more broadly, and local governments particularly, in terms of playing a leading role in managing and safeguarding local environmental resources. Nonetheless, there has been very little theoretically-inspired or empirical research that has investigated how local governments should perform the role. Therefore, the major objective of the present study is to explore the role of local government, with respect to stakeholder participation, ...

The objectives of this research were 1) to comprehend a process of empowerment of people (PEP) that is suitable to Thailand’s social conditions; 2) analyze major/main components of PEP in urban and rural communities; 3) to come up with a model on this matter and 4) to study problems and obstacles about this matter can also revealed. The areas of study are three communities as Ban Chonabot community; Ban Kueng-Muang community and Ban Ku-Muang community.

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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 6...

The objectives of this research were to examine the critical success factors for total quality management implementation and the hospital accreditation level in Thai public hospitals, and to explore the theoretical linkage between the critical success factors for total quality management and hospital performance. The Pearson’s correlation and regression analysis were used to find out the relationship among the variables. The data were collected from Thai public hospitals. The findings showed that 9 critical factors of TQM (leadership, str...

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 research objectives of this dissertation were essentially threefold: i) to study how firms effectively pursue sustainable innovation and how innovation impacts its performance on the triple bottom line; ii) to conceptualize a strategic framework that outlines the determinants that nurture innovation from a sustainable development perspective; and iii) to establish an empirical link between “sustainability practices” and innovation performance through the pursuit of “sustainability exploitation” within current competences and “sustaina...

The study of various leadership styles exhibited by the organizational leaders and the impacts it has on the overall organizational performance of the organizations has been the subject of various studies with important implications for organizations in both the private and the public sector. This qualitative research places leadership styles of the organizational leaders at the centre of the research framework without neglecting other variables that are common in the organizational diagnostic models, especially the ones that directly or...

The research aimed to build understanding about the relationship between leadership applied to executives of private vocational educational institutes in the dual system and behaviors of personnel through some key variables, such as needs satisfaction, relationship quality, and loyalty. The first objective of the study was to explore types of leadership which affected loyalty. The second objective was to explore behaviors which were influential to loyalty. The third objective was to explore the dimension of needs satisfaction which affected the...

This study objectives are 1) to examine the causal relationships in financial literacy, self-efficacy, financial motivation planning, risk in financial planning, and retirement financial planning among people living in the northeastern region of Thailand through empirical data performed by confirmatory factor analysis, 2) to analyze causal relationship of financial literacy, self-efficacy, financial motivation planning, risk in financial planning, and retirement financial planning among people living in the northeastern region of Thailand by st...

The effects of corporate governance, human resources practices, and organizational wellbeing on organizational performance of the companies listed on the stock exchanges in Thailand were the thesis title of this current study. Quantitative research approach was adopted to examine those effects. Its research objective was to investigate the direct and indirect effects of corporate governance, human resources practices, and organizational wellbeing on organizational performance. The companies listed on the stock exchange of Thailand and the marke...

This research aims to find personal characteristic factors of the executive personnel groups (EPGs), by considering the characteristics of an organization, which leads to different compensation determination. The researcher also adds political relationship factor into consideration. The researcher uses the mixed-method research by in-depth interviews with 25 personnel who involve with the compensation determination process of the target group. Questionnaires were used to collect information from 347 employees in state enterprises from level 5 o...

Nations need to ensure “inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all,” which is Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), as outlined by the United Nations. While digital pedagogy in various forms will be the future of education requiring adjustments in teaching and learning methodologies, India is still dependent on traditional systems of teaching, i.e. delivering lectures in class. Students need to develop life-long learning skills for the ever-changing job requirements in this fast evolving worl...

China has the largest number and size of smart cities in the world (Deloitte, 2018b). Relevant agencies formulate plans and conducted public hearings with all sectors. They have also drafted a white paper to serve as a guideline to be applied by cities in order for them to develop as smart cities. Thus, this study of the Chinese experience is beneficial for the development of smart cities in Thailand. This  dissertation is aimed at 1) studying previous development of smart cities used by Shanghai City, China, such as background, process, steps ...

During this digital disruption era, many organizations have to prepare themselves to be ready for coping with all the changes. One of the approaches that many organizations choose to perform is to create workforce flexibility by recruiting employees as short-term contract. The other approach is to replace some jobs that are currently performed by human with automation or robot. Anyway, many research papers found that jobs that will continue being performed by human are those jobs that require human skill, for example customer service or sales r...

This article studied knowledge and understanding of the philosophy of sufficiency economy, by application of the philosophy of the sufficiency economy in personal financial management and the results of personal financial management of non-agricultural people. In the poverty-stricken provinces in each region are Amnat Charoen province, Chainat province, Pattani province and Mae Hong Son province. The number of samples is 400 samples for a total of 1,600 samples. This article were to study: 1) Analyze direct influences and indirect influences of...

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) is widely employed in various settings; however, in what contexts and whether PES programs achieve their objectives by improving local livelihoods and conservation goals is still being debated. This dissertation assessed the impact of the Payments for Forest Environmental Service (PFES) policy on financial, natural and institutional capitals in order to respond to the critical question on whether and how much the PFES policy has contributed to poverty reduction and ecological enhancement. A case study from ...