Abstract:
The study entitled The Model of Marketing Ethics for Thailands Industrial Entrepreneurship had 4 objectives: (1) to study the fundamental component of the model of marketing ethics of Thailands industrial entrepreneurs, (2) to study the marketing ethics level for Thailands industrial entrepreneurs, (3) to develop and evaluate the content validity for Thailands industrial entrepreneurs and (4) to present the model of marketing ethics of Thailands industrial entrepreneurs.
A questionnaire was used to analyze the data from a sample of 573 respondents entrepreneurs in Thailands marketing manufacturing industry. The software of SPSS version 14.0 and Amos version 6.0 was used in this research, and statistical tool value was frequency distribution, percentage arithmetic mean, standard deviation and the confirmatory factor analysis: CFA for research conclusion.
The research result showed that the fundamental characteristics of Thailands industrial entrepreneurship had operated in industrial entrepreneurs mainly on dressing, not on shop type (15.2%); manufacturing industry of type 3, category of not 50 over horsepower (54.6%); capital registration 25.62 million Baht; international stockholders averaging 20.16 percentage; 61 industrial workers; industrial operating time for a period of 12.15 years, were mostly located outside Bangkok area (65.8%).
Thailands industrial entrepreneurs sample group had marketing ethics at high levels in industry towards employees; entrepreneurs toward government agencies; competition; social environment; employees toward entrepreneurs and customers respectively on important aspects. Overall, it could be recognized that Thailands marketing ethics was at high level ( =3.62). The developed marketing ethics convergent validity consisted of 35 indicators, where each component constructed reliability was 0.974, passed more than 0.60 and the value of average variance extracted was 0.861, passed the value of factor loading over 0.30.
The guideline to support the marketing ethics for Thailands industrial market sector straightaway was to manage marketing ethically, by getting some sort of expense deductions. Meanwhile, set up penalties heavily for any wrong doing in industrial operations ethics caused by civilly and criminally damaged, increase training for knowledge and skill development, and a code of ethics in professions through symbolic award of business marketing ethics inclusively.