The Competitive Advantage of Agricultural Processing Industry SMEs Entrepreneurs in Upper Northern Region, Thailand
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The purposes of this research were to study the entrepreneurship, business networking, culture organization and competitive advantage, and to study of effect toward the competitive advantage of agricultural processing industry SMEs in upper northern region of Thailand. The population was 119 entrepreneurs. The research tool was questionnaire by applying descriptive statistics to analyze percentage, average, standard deviation and inferential statistics to analyze correlation of structural equation model with SMART-PLS2.0. The outcomes of research revealed the opinion levels toward entrepreneurship and culture organization were rated as highest level, and followed by business networking and competitive advantage were rated as high level. The correlation of structural equation model analysis revealed that entrepreneurship had highest direct effect toward culture organization and followed by entrepreneurship had direct effect toward business networking, culture organization had direct effect toward competitive advantage, entrepreneurship had direct effect toward competitive advantage and business networking had direct effect toward competitive advantage.
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