Development of SMEs clusters into a sustainable community in Nakhon-Pathom province, Thailand

Abstract

The research on the development of SMEs clusters into a sustainable community in Nakhon-Pathom province is aimed to study in some areas as follows; 1. To study the development of a networking of the SMEs clusters and how they can sustain themselves. 2. To study problems and obstacles of the community enterprises in Nakhon Pathom province that willingness to upgrade themselves to be SMEs. In this research, the samples used in this study were the Community Enterprises located in Bang-Lane district, Nakhon Pathom Province for the total of 30 community enterprises and involved with the 3 professional in the district. The instruments used in the evaluation were the structured interview question to ask to the samples and the experts then analyzed the data using the participatory action research analysis. The results showed that the analysis of the management factors of the four community enterprises 1. Factor of management, the average score was 4.15 2. Factor of marketing was found to have a high level of feedback with the overall average was 4.09 3. Factor of implementation and technology found that the opinions expressed are at a high level and have the average score at 4.02 4. Factor of financial aspects showed that the opinions of the samples were at a high level which have the overall average at 4.23. Problems and obstacles in the operation of community enterprises. The community enterprises were lack of the knowledge of marketing, management or marketing processes to analyze the real target groups of the community enterprises. Furthermore, in every community enterprises does not have a systematic accounting system in the financial and accounting issues. However, the analysis of factors in the management of community enterprises related to the development of SMEs clusters into a sustainable community in Nakhon-Pathom province is at a high level.