Antecedents and Success of Entrepreneurs in Seafood Exporting Industry in Thailand
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The purposes of this research were to: 1) study the level of innovative leadership, organizational agility, management innovation, knowledge management, learning organization, and success of entrepreneurs in the seafood exporting industry in Thailand; 2) study the influence of innovative leadership, organizational agility, management innovation, knowledge management, and learning organization on the success of the Thai seafood export industryม; and 3) develop a success model for entrepreneurs in the seafood export industry in Thailand. This research uses mixed methods of quantitative and qualitative research. In the quantitative research, the sample group consisted of 460 seafood export industry entrepreneurs in Thailand using multi-stage sampling. A questionnaire was used to collect data and analyze the data using structural equation modeling. The qualitative research used in-depth interviews with a target group of 20 seafood export entrepreneurs. The findings revealed that innovative leadership, organizational agility, management innovation, knowledge management, learning organization and success of entrepreneurs in the seafood exporting industry in Thailand were at a high level. The results of the adjusted structural equation model analysis were consistence with the empirical data at an acceptable level (χ2 =409.36, df=210, p-value=.00000, χ2/df=1.94, RMSEA=.045, RMR=.027, SRMR=.035, CFI=.99, GFI=.93, AGFI=.91, CN=282.87). As well as, the relationship between the variables in the model found that management innovation, knowledge management, and learning organizations have a direct influence on the success of entrepreneurs in the seafood export industry in Thailand with statistical significance at the .05 level. In addition, from the results of quantitative and qualitative analysis, it has been used to create a success model for seafood export industry entrepreneurs in Thailand, as developed by the researcher named LIMOAS Model (L=Innovative Leadership, I=Management Innovation, M=Knowledge Management, O=Learning Organization, A=Organizational Agility, S=The success of entrepreneurs). The model suggested that innovative leadership, management innovation, knowledge management. learning organization and organizational agility had an influence on promoting the success of entrepreneurs in the seafood export industry in Thailand.
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