Browsing GSPA: Dissertations by Title
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Leadership styles and organizational performance: leading in the 21st century
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2016);
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 ... -
Learning within and across international development projects : Case studies in the health sector of Lao pdr
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2015);
Having realized its limited capacity, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) relies on foreign assistance and concessional loans from multilateral and bilateral development agencies to support social development programs. To ensure effectiveness and efficiency of grant fund management, the development partners impose several requirements and conditions for compliance. To satisfy the donor requirements and achieve project goals on time, project learning is highly important and needed. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore firstly ... -
Linkages between governance, globalization, and sustainable development : A comparative study of sub-Saharan Africa and East/South-East Asia
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2020);
Since the launch of the Brundtland report in 1987, developing countries continue to face problematic trade-offs that must balance the pursuit of industrialization and economic development, reduce poverty, ensure environmental sustainability, and respect the welfare of future generations. Several contemporary trends warrant the positioning of this study in the academic literature and policy circle. At the policy level, though all regions of the world have made tremendous progress, sub-Saharan African countries remain the region with the worst human ... -
Logistics contracting effectiveness: the perspective of Thai electronics
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2014);
The World Bank, which produces the Logistics Performance Index, has consistently ranked Thailand in the top tier but in a degrading order: ranked 31 in 2007; 35 in 2010; and 38 in 2012. When looked at the micro level, Thailand is still in the lowest level of logistics development—physical distribution—where firms focus mainly on the outbound flow of finished products, from the end of the production line to the consumers. The Thai government has taken an integrative approach to logistics development, encouraging Thai companies, particularly ... -
Major factors affecting Bangkok metropolitan district administration effectiveness
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2007); -
Major factors affecting educational policy implementation effectiveness for the three southernmost provinces of Thailand as perceived by school directors
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2011);
This research study utilized policy implementation theories and models to test the factors affecting educational policy implementation effectiveness in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand; namely Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the level of educational policy implementation effectiveness, to study the major factors affecting this effectiveness, and among those factors to ascertain the most important as perceived by school directors. The unit of analysis of this study was the perceptions of ... -
Major factors affecting foreign investment policy implementation effectiveness : the case of Mongolia
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2015);
Developing countries would like to attract foreign investment for the many benefits it provides, such as the adoption of high technology, increased employment, and expanded exports. Without effective usage of foreign investment inflows, however, foreign investment also brings side effects (e.g., environmental damage). Good foreign investment policy and its effective implementation could increase the benefits and decrease the side effects of foreign investment in the host country. -
Major factors affecting industrial hazardous waste policy implementation in Central Thailand
(National Institute of Development Administration, 1998); -
Major factors affecting performance of frontline employees of Thai Airways International
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2001); -
Major factors affecting policy changes on illegal migrant workers in Thailand
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2000); -
Major factors affecting policy implementation on juvenile delinquent rehabilitation
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2006); -
Major factors affecting the implementation and effectiveness of the R&D tax incentive policy
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2009)
The Thai government began to offer an R&D tax incentive in 1996 with the objective, as declared in the policy statement, of encouraging the private sector to do more research and technology development. The tax incentive is given in the form of an exemption of corporate income tax for an amount equal to 100% of the expenses incurred in the form of fees for research and technology development paid to registered R&D service providers. Using the goal-attainment model, it was concluded that the policy has low effectiveness in stimulating R&D investment. ... -
Major factors affecting the implementation of the 1984 Thai sugar policy
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2004); -
Major factors affecting the organizational effectiveness : a study of city and town municipalities
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2007); -
Major factors influencing the healthy city policy implementation in Bangkok Metropolis : a study on the vended food sanitation improvement policy
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2001); -
Management of blood donation : a case study of national blood centre of Thailand
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2016);
The National Blood Centre (NBC) of Thailand is the major blood supplier for hospitals in Thailand with the responsibility of acquiring at least 1,500 units of blood per day from blood donation. This research mainly aims to search for the NBC’s management of blood donation, both in normal and unexpected situations, through interviews. The study also searches for the most important motives enhancing blood donation during unexpected events by employing a questionnaire. It found that NBC’s management of blood donations reveals special ... -
Managerial capacity and people empowerment : the key mechanisms of community organizations towards community development
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2003); -
Managerial entrepreneurship in the Sri Lanka Administrative Service : a multidisciplinary perspective
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2003); -
Managerial networking of public and private sector Thai executives
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2003); -
Market orientation and learning orientation in improving innovativeness and organizational performance of medium sized industrial businesses
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2014);
The purpose of this research was 1) to study innovativeness levels and organizational performance levels of medium sized industrial businesses, 2) to study the relationship of market orientation and learning orientation and their effectiveness on innovativeness and the organizational performance of medium sized industrial businesses, 3) to develop and examine the goodness of fit of a causal model of market orientation and learning orientation effecting innovativeness and organizational performance of medium-sized industrial businesses to the ...