The use of social networking sites and other mobile applications have been growing intensively, not to mention, several researches indicated that it is one of the factors that impact the relationship maintenance between one another. It is highly desirable for all citizens to have a good interpersonal communication to maintain and develop further relationships. Bad communication skills may have harmed the interpersonal relationships. On the other hand, when talking about social networking sites like facebook and what it does to the society, ...

The role of the tourism industry has been well recognized in the development of the nation. The tourism industry not only contributes to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but it also has positive social impacts for locals (e.g. access to essential services, development of transportation and infrastructure, direct and indirect employment and pride in local culture and history). Therefore, tourism is important to a nation with rich resources for travel like Thailand. Even though sustainable tourism is successful, several challenges remain for Thailand, ...

The translation service market in China is growing steadily with the rapid development of international outsourcing services, as well as the language service industry as a whole. Besides the traditional study scopes included in linguistics and translation, there are a few studies that focus on translation service in the scope of the outsourcing field and then adopt theories and perspectives from it. This dissertation will study translation service industry from a new perspective, focusing on its nature as a kind of outsourcing activity. This ...

This study was designed to investigate the influence of dimensions of social media quality (system, information, and service) on user satisfaction. Moreover, this study compared the cross-cultural results of these dimensions using data collected from 220 Chinese and 201 Thai social media users. Partial least squares regression was used to analyze the data. The analysis indicated that system, information, and service quality all were related positively to user satisfaction with social media both in Thai and Chinese people. This study provides ...

This paper is concerned with the foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow and its determinant in ASEAN 5. The analysis is based on the data over the years 1986 to 2012 using the Vector Auto Regression (VAR) Technique. The objective was to analyze the relationship of (FDI) inflow and interest rates (IR). The findings suggest that the interest rates of Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia have a negative relation with foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow. No evidence was found that interest rates play any role in attracting the FDI inflow for Singapore ...

Employee engagement has been identified as a key driver for increasing organizational productivity and performance. Previous studies indicate the significance of leadership to employee engagement, but little is known about the relationships between inclusive leadership and employee engagement. This research aims to demonstrate this relationship by investigating the impact of inclusive leadership on employee engagement, and the mediating effect of psychological capital. Simultaneously, the moderating role of job embeddedness on the relationship ...

C2C electronic classified marketplaces are blooming in Thailand because it can highly fulfill Thai consumer’s habit and lifestyle. The consume enjoy using C2C electronic classified marketplaces as online seller will post and update their product and service via social media as Facebook, Instagram, and Line to catch consumer’s attention, then target consumer who interested in a particular product and service will directly contact with seller on intermediary platform. Hence, consumers still feel reluctant to use online marketplaces because they do ...

With the continuous development and progress in society and economy, the economic and cultural exchanges between Taiwan and mainland China have been continuously enhanced. Mainland Taiwan-funded enterprises have sprung and spread all over mainland China. Female executives in Taiwan-funded enterprises have gradually entered the public view. More women have taken managerial positions. However, how good is the leadership of female executives in mainland Taiwan-funded companies and what are the factors that influence the exertion of the leadership ...

Thailand has always been China’s very friendly partner. Since Thailand is located in the center of Southeast Asia, it is geographically close to China. The education cost in Thailand is considered low for Chinese families. The open policy of Thai government brings more opportunities to Thailand. Thailand has advantages in offering business opportunities, including international educational business. Chinese students have become the major source of foreign students in Thailand since year 2006. Due to the differences in language, cultural background, ...

HR Training and Development (T&D) initiatives are often tasked with training as many employees as possible for as little money as possible while proving training efficacy. To accomplish this, e-learning and now m-Learning have been seen as viable options. Unfortunately, merely deploying the learning opportunities does not mean that the learners will actually use it (Swang et al., 2013) . In this context, learner initiative (LI) has been shown to be an obstacle for more distant (i.e. not co-located and synchronous) learning (Tuckman, 2007). ...