THE MODERATING EFFECT OF GOVERNMENT AGENCY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES AND EXPORT MARKET EXPANSION
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Abstract
This study focuses on government agency as the moderating effect on the relationship between organizational resources and export market expansion among Thailand exporting the agro-based SMEs. Factor analysis was performed on twenty two items describing organizational resources and four factors were extracted. They were labeled as technology resources, financial resources, human resources, and reputation resources. The results of regression analysis revealed that only financial resources of organizational resources is statistically significant and positively associated with export market expansion, beside government agency is also statistically significant and positively associated with export market expansion. Furthermore, government agency moderates the relationship between financial resources as well as reputation resources with export market expansion. Firms with higher government agency exhibit higher financial resources and higher export market expansion. Similarly, firms with higher government agency achieved higher export market expansion when a reputation resource is high.
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1. กองบรรณาธิการสงวนสิทธิ์ในการพิจารณาและตัดสินการตีพิมพ์บทความในวารสาร
2. บทความทุกเรื่องจะได้รับการตรวจสอบทางวิชาการโดยผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ แต่ข้อความและเนื้อหาในบทความที่ตีพิมพ์เป็นความรับผิดชอบของผู้เขียนแต่เพียงผู้เดียว มิใช่ความคิดเห็นและความรับผิดชอบของมหาวิทยาลัยศรีปทุม
3. การคัดลอกอ้างอิงต้องดำเนินการตามการปฏิบัติในหมู่นักวิชาการโดยทั่วไป และสอดคล้องกับกฎหมายที่เกี่ยวข้อง
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