Abstract:
This research was aimed to explore the relations between the factors that played significant role in the operations performance within a coconut palm sugar industry in Western Thailand and the achievement of the manufacturers based in the location. In this research, the data collection was obtained through the use of questionnaires. The data were measured and then transformed to statistics including percentage, means, and standard deviation or S.D, Correlation Coefficient analysis, and multiple regression analysis. All of these were taken into account during the data analysis stage.
The findings pointed out that understandings on the principles, execution of guidelines, quality of leadership, collaboration, support from the government sector and the private sector, together with that from the community leaders were crucial and overall impacted on disparity of dependent variable. Such variable represented the manufacturers success. The disparity of it was at 53.6% according to the research findings. Besides, the factors concerning the collaboration, as well as the support from the community leader somehow determined the success of the coconut palm sugar producers in Western Thailand