scholarly journals The Effect of Intellectual Capital on Business Performance in Micro-, Small-, and Medium Enterprise (MSME) in Medan City

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Absah ◽  
Y Chairunisa Muchtar ◽  
I Qamariah

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2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Sakinah Mat Zin ◽  
Engku Huda Mursyidah Engku Hassan Ashari

This paper explores the effect of intellectual capital (IC) and Islamic Work Ethics (IWE) on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) business performance. Based on a qualitative study, the results provide support to SME entrepreneurs to understand the effects of IC and IWE on business performance and facilitate them in making the right decision. The qualitative results were obtained from documents analysis and interview sessions. For the interview session, three entrepreneurs (regarded as the key informants) provided a deeper understanding on how IC and IWE had managed to influence SME Business Performance. SME entrepreneurs must realise on the need to maintain a competitive advantage and enhance the opportunity to create profitability through extracting value from IC and IWE. The originality of the paper regards the way it addresses simultaneously IC and IWE, such related concepts. Moreover, findings of this study suggest that SME entrepreneurs should extend practices of Islamic work ethics to employees, customers, vendors, partners and the communities by building a positive environment founded on trust and commitment.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 2562-2568
Author(s):  
Norhaslinda Kamaruddin ◽  
Raja Durratun Safiyah ◽  
Abdul Wahab

The small and medium enterprise (SME) companies optimize performance using different automated systems to highlight the operations concerns. However, lack of efficient visualization in reporting results in slow feedbacks, difficulties in extracting root cause, and minimal corrective actions. To complicate matters, the data heterogeneity has intensely increased, and it is produced in a fast manner making it unmanageable if the traditional methods of analytics are applied. Hence, we propose the use of a dashboard that can summarize the operational events using real-time data based on the data visualization approach. This proposed solution summarizes the raw data, which allows the user to make informed decisions that can give a positive impact on business performance. An interactive intelligent dashboard for SME (iid-SME) is developed to tackle issues such as measurement of cases completed, the duration of time needed to solve a case, the individual performance of handling cases and other tasks as a proof of concept. From the result, the implementation of the iid-SME approach simplifies the conveyance of the message and helps the SME personnel to make decisions. With the positive feedback obtained, it is envisaged that such a solution can be further employed for SME improvement for better profit and decision making. 


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Sakinah Mat Zin ◽  
Ahmad Azrin Adnan ◽  
Iskandar Hasan Tan Abdullah

Ibn Khaldun’s magnificent reflections on the economic growth and philosophical insights into the behavior of human beings and society, as well as interrelationships among various disciplines such as politics, economics, sociology and education have reckoned him the outstanding figure in the social sciences and one of the greatest philosophers in the world. A comprehending to Ibn Khaldun’s Economic Philosophy and its outcomes for outstanding business performance assists entrepreneurs in managing intellectual capital (IC) purposefully. IC is deliberated as an indispensable factor in an organizational exertion to accentuate on bringing about competitive gains and augmenting value creations in knowledge-based economy. Instead of engaging merely on innovativeness of new products, Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs must also concentrate on administering IC in accordance to Ibn Khaldun’s Economic Philosophy. This paper targets to appreciate and re-examine contributions in Ibn Khaldun’s Economic Philosophy and IC in entrepreneurial researches and indicate how Ibn Khaldun’s Theory of Development is pertinent to research in the expanse of IC.


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