Cherdsak Teeranantawanich

Faculty of Administration and Management, 

King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL)

Thailand 

asia.attorney@gmail.com

Thai legal practitioners’ knowledge management: Communications skills, professionalism, and competency as the antecedents for success

Thepparat Phimolsathien

Faculty of Administration and Management, 

King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL)

Thailand 

thepparat@hotmail.com

Abstract. The purpose of this research was to examine the variables contributing to Thai legal practitioners’ knowledge management abilities. By means of simple random-sampling, the sample of 332 individuals was surveyed using the 72-item, 7-level, Likert type agreement scale questionnaire on the study’s four constructs. Confirmatory factor analysis was run prior to the structural equation model, with the analysis undertaken in LISREL 9.1. All causal factors in the model were shown to have a positive influence on knowledge management, with 92% variance of the factor affecting knowledge management (KM) (R2). Ranked in importance were communications skills (CSK), competency (COMP), and professionalism (PRO), with the total mean score of 0.96, 0.43, and 0.34, respectively.

Received: July, 2017

1st Revision: November, 2017

Accepted: January, 2018

DOI: 10.14254/2071-8330.2018/11-1/8

JEL Classification: D83, F23, K4, K15, K33

Keywords: attorney, ethics, international trade, law, Thai Law Society