This study was aimed to study the general situation of business to compare the financial ratios between life insurance business and non-life insurance business and to study the factors which affected the performance of insurance business. The study results showed that the financial ratios between life insurance business and non-life insurance business were compared it was found that financial ratio of life insurance business was better than non-life insurance business for 6 ratios as follow: Net Premium Return on Assets Total Assets Turnover Policy Liability to Capital Fund Current on Premium and Debt-to-Equity Ratio. As for the study on the factors which affected the performance of insurance business it was found that the performance of life insurance business were affected by the following financial ratios: Return on Investment (0.810) and Dividend Payout (0.354). The factors which affected the performance of non-life insurance business were Policy Liability to Capital Fund (2.678) Debt-to-Equity Ratio (1.370) and Provision-to-Assets Ratio (0.755). And it could be concluded that the difference between the type and the size of business affected the performance differently.

The purpose of the research was to test the effects of learning orientation and knowledge management capability on innovation excellence and export performance of furniture exporting business in Thailand. The questionnaire was used as a research instrument to collect the data from 185 managing directors of business of furniture exporting business in Thailand. The statistics used for analyzing data were multiple correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. The results of the research showed that learning orientation had a positive significant an effect on knowledge management capability but it does not a positive and effect on innovation excellence and export performance. In addition knowledge management capability had a positive significant an effect on innovation excellence but it does not a positive significant an effect on export performance. Also innovation excellence had a positive significant an effect on export performance.