This research has three objectives including, firstly, to study the roles of organizations of disabled people on their right to access low-floor buses, secondly, to study the roles of government agencies in the provision of low-floor buses, and lastly, to suggest recommendations for improving the role of government agencies on the issue of access to the rights of the disabled people to use general public services. This research uses qualitative research methods. It includes in- depth interviews with the 6 key informants, analysis of relev...

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) nowadays is a tool for preventive loss for listed-companies due to the volatility of the external environment. Moreover, apart from being a preventive tool, ERM is more important and posits as a compulsory system for alignment to a regulatory base for listed-companies driven from the issues of a lack of corporate governance (CG), historically, from well-known organizations: World-com, Enron, Volkswagen and so on. Even though, ERM is a vital tool for preventing organizational loss as well as for the alignment of ...

The objectives of this research study are 1) To study the structure and operation of the Family Care Team, a network of health promotion and disease prevention services under Thai health security system, 2) To study the components of public co-production in the management of public healthcare services for Thai local communities by the Family Care Team, and 3) To study the factors of the coproduction of public healthcare services for Thai local communities. This study is a qualitative research using the methods of document study, in-depth interv...

Although the government has a policy of transferring its mission to the local government organization to provide access to more people's problems and allow local people to obtain sustainable development, the results of the policy have still not been successful. There is also a growing problem of inequality and injustice that has arisen regularly in the provision of basic public services on education, public health, social welfare, and infrastructure development. The rich who are of good economic status have access to basic public services bette...

The objectives of this research were as follows: 1) To analyze and compare the impacts of the SET Index on capital flow and cost of capital before and after the ASEAN market integration; 2) To identify the relationship between the SET Index and the indices of the ASEAN stock exchanges before and after ASEAN Market Integration; and 3) To find out the relationship between the SET Index and the index of the MSCI World and that of the Tokyo Stock Exchange before and after the ASEAN market integration. The data for the correlation study were the ind...

There exists a large research on whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has any impact on firm performance, which the empirical researches produced mixed results. Since the CSR practices are maturing, constantly proceeding, developing, and gradually evolving, therefore it is necessary to discuss the current updated information. To broaden the result, this particular study used Thai Public Listed Companies (PLCs) in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) as a main sample, and takes an opportunity of applying both quantitative and qualitativ...

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the effect of corporate governance on firm performance, 2) to examine the effect of corporate governance on competitive advantage, and 3) to find out the effect of competitive advantage on firm performance. The quantitative data consisted of 5-year longitudinal/panel data (2011- 2015). Only qualified companies listed in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) were selected as population. The total of 203 shortlisted companies were good for 1,015 observations. The dummy variables derived from IOD corpo...

The study on sustainable livelihood strategies and policy Implication for a good living standard of aging people in Thailand, the researcher applied the sustainable livelihood approach (SLA) from the work of the Department for International Development (Sustainable Livelihood Framework: DFID) by focusing on the relationships between the five major components of sustainable livelihood for aging people. The five major components are the vulnerability context; livelihood assets; livelihood strategy; policies, institutions, processes; and the livel...

The objectives of this study were 1) to study the implementation of corporate social responsibility in a community hydropower plant construction project; 2) to investigate the social capital development process resulting from the implementation of corporate social responsibility; and 3) to develop a model of the social capital development process resulting from the implementation of corporate social responsibility. The present research employed the qualitative method. The case studies were conducted in the Ban San Din Daeng community and Ban Kl...

The objectives of this research were to study and analyze the components of the transformational leadership of the judges of the Juvenile and Family Court and to explore the guidelines for developing the transformational leadership of the judges of the Juvenile and Family Court. The mixed-method research approach was adopted in this study. The qualitative techniques used were documentary research and in-depth interviews with 56 informants. In terms of the quantitative research, the confirmatory factor analysis and descriptive data analysis were...

The purpose of this research is to study educational loan models for higher education in Thailand, the United Kingdom and Australia, as well as their strengths and weaknesses, and to propose educational loan models that are suitable for Thailand. Research information and tools to support the research included documents related to educational loans, in-depth interviews with administrators involved at the policy level, and interviews with borrowers of the Student Loan Fund (SLF) in Thailand. The findings of the research were as follows: 1) There...

The Management and Governance of Thai Social Security Office (SSO) are the focus of the following three issues to be researched by mixed methodology: 1) he Social Security Fund is an effective fund; 2) The Social Security administered based on Good Governance principles; and 3) Individuals with different personal variables have different opinions on the management and governance Social Security Office. The research will mainly apply to the benefits of insured workers as defined in Article 33 of the Social Security Act, although conclusions wil...

This research proved the existing fiscal equality of the intergovernmental grant allocation. The research objectives were 1) to investigate the intergovernmental transfer in Thailand and to test the hypothesis on horizontal fiscal balance among the local governments, 2) to conduct a qualitative study with an emphasis on general grant and specific grant allocation in order to strengthen the horizontal fiscal balance, and 3) to provide recommendations to policymakers and concerned parties on the ement of grant allocation. The mixed method w...

Contemporary works on the devastating effects of corruption on well-being have mainly been explored in relation to cconomic development (ED) at the macro and micro levels, ignoring issues that pertain to sustainability. As a consequence, resource-rich economies such as the ones in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) and elsewhere are increasingly at risk of losing out through over exploitation. This poses as a threat which may adversely affect inter-temporal social welfare and in effect keep the status quo on inequality and deprivation. The purpose...

This study was undertaken to accomplish five objectives: 1) to understand the need for Thailand to provide infrastructure assistance to neighboring countries , 2) to explore the various definitions of NEDA’s projects’ success from the point of view of different stakeholders comprised of the government, local administrations, and local people, 3)To explore a consensus definition of NEDA’s projects’ success, 4) to explore the factors that affect NEDA projects’ success, and 5) to propose a model for NEDA’s projects’ implementation success. The stu...

The objectives of the research were to 1) explore the key characteristics of co-operative education conducted in higher education institutions in Thailand, 2) investigate the procedure of co-operative education employed in higher education institutions in Thailand, 3) examine the evaluation of the effectiveness of co-operative education undertaken in higher education institutions in Thailand, and 4) analyze the influential factors affecting the effectiveness of co-operative education of higher education institutions in Thailand. It was qualitat...

This research studies the patterns and methods of community-level disaster management capacity building, analyzes the capacity, problems, and obstacles, and proposes approaches to the development of sustainable flood and drought management capacity building among local communities in Thailand’s lower northeastern provinces. Research data were collected from 10 local communities through interviewing community leaders totaling 10 persons, executives from local administrative organizations totaling 10 persons, and executives of provincial offices ...

Even though the issue of inter-organization collaboration has been explored and revealed in various forms, these studies have not covered the different contexts and forms of collaboration specific to operational research collaboration between industry and academia in Thailand. Therefore, it is needed to consider these phenomena in the context of Thailand. The objectives this dissertation intends to discover are: to describe the context of operational research collaboration between industry and academia, to explore the key determinants of effect...

This study has found that the concepts of public participation in development, “Participatory Governance,” used by Office of Public Sector Development Commission (OPDC) as their administrative guidelines and for implementation by Thai government officials at present, is different from the western theory when applied in actual practice. The study utilized qualitative methods and multiple case studies. The researcher participated in the study and collected data through in-depth interviews, documentary analysis, observation, field notes and focus ...

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. Seconda...