The Effects of Critical Success Factors on Social Enterprises Sustainability

This is a mix-method study to investigate critical success factors which can support social enterprises in Thailand to measure their sustainability. The quantitative data were gathered through questionnaire, while qualitative data were derived from semi-structures interview. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, a multiple regression, and content analysis. It was found that the highest-correlated factor with sustainable growth for social enterprises is Value Creation with mean value of 4.03. Importantly, Value Creation and The Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy were found to be the important indicators of economic, social, and environmental key performance, while Financial Management was the indicator of economic and environmental key performance of social enterprises in Thailand. The implications of this study shed light on how social enterprises make themselves sustainable and how they measure their sustainability over the long term