Abstract:
The objectives of this research were (1) to study the importance level of entrepreneurial characteristics, business networks, organizational culture, innovation and performance of food processing community enterprises; and (2) to examine entrepreneurial characteristics, business networks, organizational culture and innovation influenced the performance of food processing community enterprises. It applied a mixed method approach with quantitative and qualitative research design. The questionnaire was used as a tool for quantitative research. The sample group included 250 groups of food processing community enterprises. The data analysis used descriptive statistics to find percentage, mean and standard deviation including inferential statistics as structural equation models, and the qualitative research used semi-structured interviews with 25 people as the targets with content analysis as the data analysis.
The research findings showed that the first objective : the factor of entrepreneurial characteristics is at a high level, followed by business networks, innovation, organizational culture and performance at a high level; the second objective : the analysis of structural equations showed that business networks had an influence on organizational culture, entrepreneurial characteristics influenced business networks, business networks influenced innovation, innovation had an influence on performance, and lastly, organizational culture had an influence on performance. Moreover, business networks had no influence on performance. The qualitative research findings were consistent and supported by the quantitative research findings.