RESEARCH PROBLEM
The world situation is rapidly changing at the present time. The world economy is adjusting to
the new situation and this provides opportunities for Thailand to expand into the global market in many
ways. According to the tourism report from ASEAN and the World Tourism Organisation, predicted
tourist arrivals to ASEAN countries will increase from 70 million today to 120 million within the next
three years. This is another factor that drives the world markets increasing demanding for food from
Thailand, especially hotels and restaurants in these Asian countries. The food has been recognised as
having good taste and of a high quality. Products those are popular with both fresh and cooked
ingredients. Although many countries are able to grow fruits and vegetables of the same variety as
Thailand, many types of fruits imported from Thailand were regarded as having a superior taste. Many
consumers have limited time for cooking or preparing food and for this reason they paying attention to
their own health and interested in consuming ready to eat healthy foods. That is why frozen food will be
popular and productive for Thailand to export.
Verhees (2005) believed that marketing orientation and new product developments cannot
succeed if they do not rely on other factors of organisation, such as firm size and marketing channels.
These factors will make the organisation successful in the long term and business will be able to create
or develop new products using the research learned. These also the life cycle of organisations have
differences in both small companies and large enterprises and there are variations with advantages and
disadvantages. Furthermore, refer to the research by Augusto & Coelho (2007) it showed that marketing
orientation, firm-specific factors and environmental forces are important drivers of a firm's new-to-theworld
product innovation. Moreover, Zhou, Yim & David (2005) stated that making the organisation a
success also requires a focus on a firm's strategic orientations (from the resource-based view) and
market forces (from the competitive force perspective), through organisational learning, to breakthrough
innovations and firm performance. Also to start the learning process of organisations to develop new
products they should rely on proper marketing technology and this will make launching new products
more successfully. However, Madanmohan, Uma Kumar and Vinod Kumar (2004) argued that to adapt
new technologies; organisations should receive government assistance because this is vital in the
promotion and learning of new powerful technologies with business organisations in the country. More
specially, Day (1999) has argued that in fact, the concept of marketing orientation is that it is based on
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