Factors Impinging Upon Thai Glassware Industry from Modern Wholesale and Retail Trades
Journal Title: International Journal of the Computer, the Internet and Management - Year 2015, Vol 23, Issue 1
Abstract
This Participatory Action Research (PAR) on the factors affecting Thai glassware industry manufacturers and modern wholesale and retail trades emphasized the unfair transactions and aimed to study and analyze the factors affecting the glassware manufacturers and modern wholesale and retail trades in order to find some approaches, measures or policies to ameliorate the existing problems. Using the Delphi technique, this research was divided into three phases as follows: 1) The collection of qualitative data from the researches related to the manufacturers and modern wholesale trades for formulating a set of quantitative questionnaires to be administered with 499 respondents. The questionnaire items cover 6 factors: (a) government policies; (b) laws, rules and regulations; (c) relevant supporting agencies; (d) modern wholesale and retail trades; (e) glassware manufacturers; and (f) consumers. It was found from this phase that the factors impinging upon the manufacturers and modern wholesalers and retailers of glassware industry score high on government policy with an average score of 4.6 out of 5.0. These indicated that the respondents wish to resolve the government policy first. 2) This phase was involved with the in-depth interviews of 17 stakeholders on the problems of the government policy impacting the problem and problem resolution. The stakeholders were asked to prioritize the problem and problem resolutions whereas the measures were set under 8 headings: (a) development of effective manufacturers in terms of production costs, prices and technology investment; (b) development of manufacturers capable of increasing their markets, market channels and market shares, both domestic and international the country; (c) development of manufacturers to organize their associations and organizations in order to augment their bargaining power; (d) development of laws, rules and regulations on serious and concrete competitiveness or competitive advantage; (e) set up the regulatory agencies and empower them to regulate/control and bring to court the unfair business transaction on wholesale and retail trade; (f) decrease and lessen the volume to glassware industry trade by means of control through laws; (g) tax reduction policy on the products and services; and (h) set up a standard price on the products and service. 3) The research in phase III is a synthesis/review of the 8 headings appeared in phase II. The mean of each heading was 3.5-4.5. The relationship between and among variables based on a Pearson’s r value are then used for the eight recommendations via the development of effective manufacturers making them capable in their dealings in terms of cost, technology and innovation, marketing, investment and association formation, together with improvement of relevant laws, regulation, and concrete law enforcement.
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Chairoj Charoenchaikorn
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