Asia Pacific Journal of Advanced Business and Social Studies

Assoc. Prof. Natepanna Yavirach

Authors: 9-18

The study of Critical Success Factors of management style in food industry to Asian Economics Community was conducted to investigate the factors that affect to Thai food industrial in foreign countries, especially in Asian Economics Countries. The relationship between business strategies and manufacturing concern with value chain activities, logistics and transportation activities, business partners’ relationship, government support and characteristics of entrepreneurs. The result found that the successful of the Thai food industrial has high related work experiences at 0.74, value chain activities at 0.80 and logistic and transportation at 0.76. The analytical of value chain activities in terms of inbound activities, operation activities, outbound activities and transportation has the high correlation level (r = 0.982, p-value < 0.01), following by procurement activities, human resources development, product development with the high correlation level (r = 0.902 and r = 0.903, p-value < 0.01). While the strategic management process, in term of strategic planning also has the high correlation level (0.895, p-value <0.01) and strategic implementation has the high correlation level (r = 0.891, p-value <0.01), the results show in the same direction for all of them which the significant level of 0.01 and 0.05. The Structural Equation Model (SEM) found that the latent variables of Factor affect to Thai food Industrial have the impact weight score on observe variables of characteristic of Thai food entrepreneur in term of experience and responsibilities at 1.42, leadership at 0.90, business partners at 0.65, product development at 0.82, government support at 0.97, to 1.00, market development at 1.30 and distribution channel at 1.30 accordingly. The analytical of constructive model on direct and indirect effect found that latent variables of entrepreneur characteristics have the direct effect on critical success factors at .903, success factor on food technology at 0.744, the management style at 0.877 with a significant level at 0.001. While the latent variable of strategic management process has the direct effect on critical success factor at 0.717, the strategic implementation at 0.713 with a significant level at 0.001. Moreover, the latent variable of logistic and supply chain activities has the direct effect to critical success factor at 1.883, competitive advantage at 3.061 with a significant level at 0.001. Food safety and food standard has the direct effect on critical success factor at 1.881. Finally, the critical success factor has the direct effect to management style at 0.916 with a significant level at 0.001.

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Authors: Devani Laksmi Indyastuti, T. Hani Handoko, B.M. Purwanto, Amin Wibowo

The influence of the competitive psychological climate on the basic psychological need satisfaction remains an uncertainty. Using the integration of the cognitive evaluation theory, the self determination theory, the personal enviroment fit theory and the competition-hostility perspective, we examined the effect of the competitive psychological climate on three basic psychological need satisfactions, competence, autonomy, relatedness with the individual trait of competitiveness as the moderating factor. We tested 661 responses from lecturers using regression analyses. The results showed that the individual trait of competitiveness was a moderating variable of the effect of the competitive psychological climate on the feelings of competence, autonomy and relatedness. For individuals with high levels of competitiveness, the climate positively affected their feelings. For individuals with lower competitiveness levels, the climate negatively affected their feelings.

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Authors: Professor Doctor Auragnzeb, Sana Arz Bhutto

The study has analyzed the emerging issues which are barriers in handling the governance in Pakistani Universities through intellectual capital management. The objective of this study is to find out about the policies designed to run the system of the universities, a review of the current practices will be done to make recommendations of adopting some best practices of governance. The framework will be designed under the Pakistani context so an examination of the present challenges in intellectual capital management can be done. The practices of good governance and how these practices are managed will be the prime focus of the paper. The role of the participants in the governance and the stake holders involved who play a key role in the intellectual capital management by providing smooth system of management. The governing bodies of the Pakistani universities and their relationships with the shareholders, what role shareholders play in management will be analyzed. The sources of the study are the government documents which are published by the government institutions, articles of the newspaper and the policy papers. In order to do an analysis, content analysis has been done. The result of this study shows that the government plays an important role in governance of the Pakistani universities and thus, affects the intellectual capital management.

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Authors: John Davies

This paper addresses issues raised by Ghoshal (2005) about how the seeming uncritical acceptance of an ideologically-based gloomy vision of human nature has led to “bad” management theories. In particular, the paper sheds light on how a paradoxical and unwarranted adherence to theory and theory-informed practice may emerge, and how that practice may reinforce or reflect ideology. Building on prior work, the paper develops complementary perspectives from systems thinking (Senge, 1990) and cognitive psychology (Tversky & Kahnemann, 1974), to suggest how in some circumstances, cognitive bias rather than intention may impact the theory-practice nexus. The paper provides a constructive illustration of the use of the systems representational tools of qualitative system dynamics in order to develop a systems perspective on these matters; to identify the underpinning systemic structure that gives rise to Ghoshal’s views; and to identify means of addressing issues of concern to management theorists, analysts and practitioners.

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Authors: Wichayanunth Porkha, Seri Wongmonta, Jusana Techakana

The acceptance of tourism businesses for gays is still dubious. Businesses designed for gays are still grey businesses. The image problem of tourism businesses for gays needs to be corrected, so that entrepreneurs will feel comfortable to launch tourism businesses for gays only or to do tourism businesses that are gay-friendly. This is the genesis of the research entitled “The Development of Marketing Strategies of Tourism Business for Male Homosexual Target Groups in Bangkok.” This study was inspired by an increasing number of male homosexuals and the growth of pink dollars. This study is a mixed research; a quantitative research was conducted with a structured questionnaire distributed among 400 male homosexuals in Bangkok, and a qualitative research was conducted with in depth interview with experts in various fields. The study reveals that most gays appear as normal men; very few of them look feminine or are transvestites and transgender. As for tourism, they prefer going to gay-friendly places to going to tourism businesses for gays only. The findings indicate that Thailand should develop tourism businesses for gay target groups because Thailand has a potential to be successful because of its reputation of being a Gay Paradise. The public sector should be aware of the significance of gay target groups to capture a share of pink dollars. There should be a social campaign to create receptivity of sexuality diversity in order to induce entrepreneurs to invest in gay friendly tourism businesses and to make gay customers feel comfortable to use the services. If the entrepreneurs are gay, chances of being successful will be greater because they will have better customer insights and they would be capable of cultivating gay-friendly culture among employees. Based on the findings, the researcher has formulated a strategic paradigm framework entitled DEPTH.

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Authors: Melis Menent

History of thought has offered many rigorous ways of thinking about the world. Many great idea(s) have benefited from surrounding disciplines. The call for changing the world rather than interpreting it has been made by Marx long ago. This appeal for change through thought, one might think, has arrived at a standstill with the political impasses our world is witnessing today. Habermas’ magnum opus ‘Between Facts and Norms’offers a track between the world as it is and the world as it should be. The legal reading, he provides offers a functioning solution bridging the gap between the social and the philosophical. The missing link in this work, I argue, is the notion of a developed understanding of constitutional patriotism. Introduced by Habermas and later developed to a larger extent by Muller, constitutional patriotism is a form of political attachment seeking to transform conventional national(istic) ties. Interdisciplinary by nature, constitutional patriotism sits into the framework of ‘Between Facts and Norms’, between Is and Ought and between theory and practice perfectly. Communication as the glue of a broader theory is harmonised into the theory of CP through Kohlberg’s idea of development. While I develop the notion under Philosophy as the main discipline, CP in practice addresses conflict resolution stream of international relations too. International human rights law and the principle of democracy are the theoretical components of constitutional patriotism. In practice, these theoretical normative pillars transform in light of the political problem at hand. In this paper, I would like to present constitutional patriotism as a concept which is philosophically defensible and workable in practice.