The Analysis of the Entrepreneur’s Capability Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Loei Area

Abstract

               The analysis of the entrepreneur’s capability  in Loei Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of  the has two objectives; 1) to analyze the capability of the SMEs entrepreneur in Loei province 2) to analyze the business connection of the SMEs entrepreneur in the matter of the agriculture, industry, trade and investment in Loei province  The population is the SMEs entrepreneur in Loei, 13,910 participants which can be indicated as sampling group at 400 by using the descriptive statistics to find the mean and percentage of the data. It’s done by compile the SMEs entrepreneur data to cover all in Loei and analyze the business’s capability including, the business connection, agriculture, industry, investment of the SMEs entrepreneur by using the Input-Output Model.

               The study found that the business structure, SMEs entrepreneur in Loei province, the business owner mostly aged as working labor period. The education is at high school level and bachelor’s degree. The income is lower than 100,000 THB. The most portion of the cost is raw material. The second thing are the wage and electricity cost. The source of the cost circulated from personal family. The positive factor to run business is the goods’ quality, services and locations with a pleasant atmosphere, the festival and a long holiday. During the high season, amount of the tourists will go higher. The investment tends to increase continuously because the province has the tourism development strategy continuously. The AEC commencement influences people to move to the province at the high amount and mostly want to own the business. The main problem in the running business is that the cost gets higher and become more competitive. The entrepreneur both the manufacture and service part and retail business need the most is the cost to expand their businesses. From the analysis of the business connection of the SMEs entrepreneur by using secondary source, it was found that the income from running business of the SMEs entrepreneur values 16,055.2 million Bath. The Gross domestic product in Loei increasingly values 15,987.2 million Bath. The entrepreneur’s income is shown that every 255,457 Bath would cause the hiring for one person.