In the highly competitive environment, the sustainability of SMEs is one of the most important factors to the development of country economy .Therefore, SMEs are now finding the ways to survive and achieve sustainable competitive advantage by exploiting resources and network according to the resource-based view theory (RBV). In the resource acquiring process, networking is the main channel for the firms which require resources from external environment and networking behaviors of top management influence the organization networking effect...

Thailand is one of the biggest health supplement markets in Southeast Asia, and the trend for organic products is popular. Therefore, the main objective for this study was to understand and to find out the factors influencing of purchase intention towards Organic Diet Capsule in Bangkok, Thailand. The factors that were studied were health consciousness, green brand positioning, green brand knowledge, attitude toward purchasing green apparel products, subjective norms, and external perceived behavioral control. The survey method is applied...

The research aims to study the factor affecting on purchase intention of white kidney bean product. In healthy market, the people are more concern about health food. The trend towards purchasing healthy products is growing among people. However, the white kidney bean is containing high nutrition, but it is not well known among Thai peoples. The white kidney bean is not popular in Thailand because almost the white kidney bean in Thailand are import from other country and hardly to find white kidney bean products in the market. So, there se...

Children’s education is the most important decision for parents who would like to select the best school for their children. Therefore, parents are the most influential factor over their children’s education. Thailand currently faces with the problems in education. According to the report of 2016 World Economic Forum, the rank of Thailand’s education dropped from 86 to 90 in 2015. This study aims to investigate the factors influencing parents’ intention to send children to study abroad in UK boarding schools by using the factors from previ...

This research attempts to investigate the factors that impact consumer’s behavioral intention towards franchised Japanese restaurants in Bangkok as the number of franchised Japanese restaurants in Bangkok is decreasing which is different from the overall number of franchised Japanese restaurants in Thailand, and to examine the differences among three generational groups (Generation X, Generation Y and Generation Z). A conceptual model was developed based on previous studies that include quality of physical environment, service quality, fo...

As times are changing. Technology integration becomes challenging and also progressively harder to replace. This bring changes to teachers’ instructional roles in the classroom. Rather than using technology for its sake, the university can develop a vision of how technology can improve teaching and learning. eLearning can be used to promote the professional development opportunities, it is offering possibilities of convenience, accessibility, and personalization. With technology becoming more affordable, it’s really no surprise that eLear...

Electronic commerce is an essential tool and increasing growth in businesses, most of businesses run their operations via an online. Online purchasing is a part of human life as a providing more conveniences and efficiencies of a vendor and a consumer when people compare to traditional purchasing. For generation Y has the high commitment in various channels of purchasing and this generation perceived online shopping was more sage and capable. This study aimed to determine factors influencing generation Y’s online purchase intention toward...

This paper seeks to examine (1) the effects of social status and the three major components of self-esteem, performance, appearance, and social self-esteem, on conspicuous consumption and (2) the impact of conspicuous consumption on saving behavior. The relationships substantiated in this study are based mainly on the perception-behavior linkage within the social psychology domain. The data used to analyze the proposed relationships in this study were collected through an on-line survey, with a final sample size of 268 consumers. The find...

How Much Is Enough? Can be thought of generally in terms of sustainability. This paper broadly adopts that approach but also mentions The Sufficiency Economy (SE) Thailand which is derived from Buddhist philosophy and which promotes the idea that we should open our mind and implement practices to the needs (not wants) of all people and that those needs be modest i.e. sufficient. Proponents of this sufficiency economy were EF Schumacher (1911- 1977) of the UK and King Bhumibol Adulyadejj (Rama 9 (reign from 05-05-1950 to 13-10- 2016) in Th...

The objective of research is to examine the effect of product’s factors which are product quality, service quality, brand image, and product design of condominium toward purchase intention of condominiums in Bangkok. In Thailand, due to the popularity of condominiums, the expansion of investment on this market has continually grown year by year and the condominium market has become highly competitive. This current research is significant in that it would help condominium developers know about what kind of condominiums preferred by potential buy...

This research examined succession planning in family firms in Thailand, with an objective of determining whether predecessor (firm leader) gender made a difference in the comprehensiveness or perceived success of the succession process. A questionnaire was distributed to Bangkok-area business owners of family firms that had gone through a leadership transition (n = 254), including 168 male-led firms and 86 female-led firms. Analysis was conducted using structural equation modeling (SEM). Results showed that the firm owner’s age, firm size and o...

Nowadays, Thailand is turning to aging society with the older population increasing than past. Mostly, older people have mental and physical health problems. Consequently, elderly health care is more important and necessary in the society. Currently, technology has continuously grown especially mobile applications that allow people to get involved with more activities. Applying elderly health care as mobile application service instead of traditional service is a new type of product and new trend in Thailand. This research analyzes the factors h...

The word perception commonly appears in the titles of tourism academic journals, master’s theses and doctoral dissertations title when In fact, what is often measured is opinion, attitude, preference or impact. I suggest that this mis-representation should cease. Others may agree, because the term five senses research has begun to replace the word perception in the titles of some academic journal papers. This is especially so in the broader marketing context, but less so among tourism and hospitality titles. This outline study suggests applicat...

This paper seeks to explore whether there is any meaningful clusters of Thai hotels based on entrepreneurial marketing variables and the demographic characteristics of hotels and their managers. Exploratory two-step cluster analysis was adopted since it can deal with both categorical and continuous data simultaneously. The analysis resulted in nine clusters, each with its own unique characteristics. The findings indicated that three major characteristics of hotel and hotel managers —hotel size, gender, and types of manager (owner vs. non-owner)...

In the age of digitalization, it could not be ignored that electronic Word of Mouth as a part of electronic commerce may be consistent with competitive circumstances. This research paper aims to examine the behavioral intention of Bangkokian in perceiving and processing the information through online medias before purchasing IT products. It is convinced that the research finding could be a useful guidance in the age when digitalization. 398 Bangkokians, capable in reviewing other’s comments or reviews through online medias for the supportive in...

With the continued growth of automobile sales in Thailand, the automobile repair industry has been intensified. The aim of this research is to study the factors that have impact on customer purchase intention of P automobile repair center in order to maintain more customers and generating better revenues. The variables included in the proposed framework were purchase intention (dependent variable) and brand awareness, convenience, perceived quality, and word of mouth (independent variable). In this current research, a quantitative approach usin...

The study is a qualitative research using interview data to determine the characteristics of the startup enterprise in the shared accommodation business. The data was analyzed using inter-coding analysis for qualitative study. The startup reveals characteristics typical of the organizations the creativity phase of Greiner’s organization growth were systems needs to be organized and leadership and management need to set up the strategic direction for the company including better operational management systems. The management and employees aspire...

This study focuses on African students’ perception on enrolling at Thai Universities using the Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA), so the objectives are set to describe the African students’ perception of their university experience upon studying in Thailand and identifying the extent to which these perceptions can lead to what Thai universities services for them. The reason behind the need to study on perception on enrolling at Thai Universities is that these universities are no exception when it comes to marketing on international studies ...

This study aims to reveal the influence of tourist personality on key interrelated factors in the visitation process including tourist motivation, destination satisfaction, and destination loyalty, and to investigate the relationships among these factors. The sample population includes first-time American tourists who visited the three locations in Thailand. The study findings indicate that (1) Psychographic personality and Allocentric personality positively influence tourist motivation; (2) only the motivation of Psychographics and the motivat...

Technology and Trend of mobile payment or cashless wallet have continuously grown and the potential to replace the traditional payment method is large. The purpose of this study is to understand the factors that impact customer behavioral intention to start using mobile payment service in the case of Thai people in Bangkok. Also, investigate the difference between 2 types of user as personal used user and business owner user toward the behavioral intention to adopt mobile payment services. A conceptual model in this study was developed based on...