scholarly journals Double-Sided Perspective of Business Resilience: Leading SME Rationally and Irrationally During COVID-19

Author(s):  
Nopriadi Saputra ◽  
Maria Grace Herlina

Objective - This study aims to elaborate business resilience of small medium enterprises and to test the impact of rational and irrational antecedents of business resilience during COVID-19 crisis. Methodology/Technique - It is cross-sectional and causal study for testing five hypothesizes. Convenience approach was used as non-probabilistic sampling method. It involved 506 small medium enterprises in Jawa and Sumatera, the biggest islands in Indonesia. Collected data were structured with PLS based Structural Equation Modelling. Findings – The result explained that business resilience is influenced positively, directly, and significantly by business flexibility and workplace spirituality. Business flexibility is influenced by workplace spirituality, pro-social leadership, and alliance capability. Pro-social leadership of owners and/or managers influences implementation of health protocol and alliance capability. Novelty - This study has proved that business resilience has both sides of antecedents - in rational and irrational perspectives. Type of Paper: Empirical. JEL Classification: L26, L29. Keywords: Business Resilience, Small Medium Enterprise Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Saputra, N; Herlina, M.G. (2021). Double-Sided Perspective of Business Resilience: Leading SME Rationally and Irrationally During COVID-19, Journal of Management and Marketing Review, 6(2) 125 – 136. https://doi.org/10.35609/jmmr.2021.6.2(4)

Author(s):  
Tijanni Muhammad ◽  
Besar Bin Ngah

Islamic Financial Institution is considered Halal and Shariah-compliant institution that effectively developed and impacted the role of developing Small Medium Enterprises by sharing similar value, principle, and market activities under Shariah-compliant and business sector. Despite its similarities, there is still low penetration of Islamic financial institutions on the Halal business instrument. However, the business should not only concentrate on Halal business but also financing SMEs is essential. The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of Islamic Financial Institutions on the development of Halal SMEs in Nigeria. A 350 survey questionnaire was distributed to the twenty (20) Halal Small Medium Enterprises using Structural Equation Modelling and random sampling as an essential investigation tool. The findings justified that the development of SMEs with a significant number of business units and financing from Islamic financial institutions indicates a positive direction and promotes the development of SMEs ' relatively and broader representation of the Halal industry. The study shows a general overview of the positive impact on Islamic financial institutions towards the financing Halal sector and addresses the rate of unemployment in Nigeria. The study recommends strategies for creating a partnership with Middle-East and Asian investors for more effective models and application techniques for financing SMEs and addresses the rate of poverty and unemployment in the country. 


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vika Annisa Qurrata ◽  
Nadiah Ramadhani

Poverty is a serious problem in East Java. Many policies are carried out to reduce poverty such as intensified economic growth, improvement in the quality of human resources, increasing UMK annually and promoting investment. This research examined the influence of the Human Development Index (HDI), Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), investment, and GRDP on poverty in East Java in 2019. Cross-sectional data of 38 regency cities in East Java were analyzed using linear regression. The results showed that HDI had a significant effect on poverty in East Java. Keywords: poverty, HDI, investment, minimum wage, GRDP


Author(s):  
Arunmozhi M ◽  
Sumandiran C.S.P

Purpose: The current study examines the perception level of environmental-oriented CSR practices among the employees of small-medium enterprises in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, India. Approach/Methodology/Design: It is a cross-sectional field study of environment CSR practices among SMEs employees of Coimbatore district, the western part of Tamil Nadu, India. A multistage random sampling technique is adopted. Sixty-one firms were approached to study the employees’ perception of CSR and environmental impact on CSR. The sample included 369 participants out of the total population of 9027 employees. This study follows the research methodology based on the Eco-labeling principles, designed by the European Commission 2005 Descriptive analysis, Chi-square test, Bartlett sphericity statistical tests, and Structural Equation Modeling in AMOS version 23 were used.. Findings: The results indicate the significance of SMEs employees’ perception level according to their age, gender and experience. The results reveal that CSR practices towards environments are related to employee perception level. CSR practices play a very predominant role in changing the mindset of the employees working in small-medium enterprises. Practical Implications: This study also paves a way to diverse thoughts in the exploration of the multimodal dimensions of the internal aspects and external CSR practices. Originality/value: The analysis presents the main directions of pro-environmental initiatives undertaken by enterprises and the perception of employees to understand environmental CSR. The results also indicate the differences in the most frequent pro-environmental activities of enterprises operating in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, India.


Author(s):  
Bibi Arfanly ◽  
Ma'mun Sarma ◽  
Muhammad Syamsun

As a part of Micro Small Medium Enterprises, home industry plays a very important role as new jobs provider that is expected to decrease unemployment and distribute wealth among society. Home industry development needs to be done in Kendal Regency. However in its implementation, this home industry faces many problems, one of them is marketing. It shows that there needs to be right marketing method and strategy to develop home industries. One of the approaches that is used right now by Small Medium Enterprises is entrepreneurial marketing. This research aims to (1) analyze the achievement being practiced by home industry in Kendal, (2) analyze the impact entrepreneurial marketing has towards the marketing performance of Kendal’s home industry. Respondents in this research are 67 home industry entrepreneur in Kaliwangu district and Patebon district, Kendal Regency. Sampling method uses non probability sampling method with convenience sampling technique. The data was analyzed with transformation index analysis and structural equation modeling with partial least square approach (SEM PLS). The result of the research shows that the implementation of entrepreneurial marketing has been quite good and the biggest aspect of entrepreneurial marketing is shown by strategic ability. According to SEM PLS analysis, concept, strategy, and market intelligence variables on entrepreneurial marketing are significant to marketing performance.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-162
Author(s):  
Choirul Bashor ◽  
Chamdan Purnama

AbstractThis study aims to describe and analyze the factors which affect the performance of managers consisting of entrepreneurial orientation and creativity factors and their impact on competitive advantage. Apart from that in this study also seeks to want to know how big the impact is directly entrepreneurial orientation and creativity to competitive advantage and influence indirectly through manager performance. The research was conducted on a sample of 170 manager’s small medium enterprises (SMEs) in the shoe industry Mojokerto East Java Province, sampling using random sampling techniques. Through the analysis of the results of structural equation modeling (SEM) found that the first-factor entrepreneurial orientation and creativity positive effect on manager performance. Second, the factors of entrepreneurial orientation and creativity direct positive effect on the competitive advantage. Third, through manager performance, factors of entrepreneurial orientation and creativity indirectly positively effects on the competitive advantage. Fourth, manager performance positively affects competitive advantage.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-28
Author(s):  
Ade Octavia ◽  
Zulfanetti Zulfanetti ◽  
Erida Erida

Purpose-the increasing of SME number in Indonesia is not followed by the increasing of business performance, although various managerial and entrepreneural tranings, as well as busniness advocations has been given intensively by government. The objective of this research is to analise the impact  of entrepreneural orintation, market orientation, managerial  skill,and entrepreneurship training on SMEs business performance. Design/methodology/ approach- the approach used is survey method. Data gathered from 200 respondents accross for districts or city in Jambi Province,  and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) used as analysing tool.  Findings- this research find  that the business performance is influenced  by the level of entrepreneural orientation and the attending of entrepreneurship training. Management skill is the intervening variable between entrepreneurship traning and business performance. The result also find that market orientation is an intervening for the relationship between entrepreneural orientation and business performance.


Author(s):  
Nopriadi Saputra ◽  
Maria Grace Herlina

COVID-19 has created a killing field for SME as one of national economics pillars. Business resilience becomes crucial issue. It has stimulated the owner and/or managers of SME to do many things for saving the SME from its bankruptcy rationally and/or irrationally. This study aimed to elaborate business resilience and to test the impact of rational and irrational factors on business resilience. The rational factors consist of: (1) implementation of health protocol in doing business, (2) developing business flexibility, and (4) improving alliance capability. The rational factors consist of (4) enhancing pro-social leadership a (5) conducting workplace spirituality. This study is cross-sectional survey with causal approach for testing five hypothesizes. Convenience method was used as sampling method. This study involved 506 small medium enterprises in Jawa and Sumatera, the two biggest islands in Indonesia. Collected data were structured with PLS based Structural Equation Modelling. Proposed research model was described into second order construct and tested by validity and reliability analysis, measurement model analysis and structural model analysis. Keywords: Resilience, Flexibility, Spirituality, Pro-Social Leadeship


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-209
Author(s):  
Ali Junaid Khan ◽  
Sajid Tufail ◽  
Asad Ali

Entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial innovation, and knowledge management all play critical roles in improving the performance of Pakistan's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Pakistan's business index score decreased from 137th to 138th due to the country's low performance in the small and medium-sized enterprise sector. Small and medium-sized firms must overcome several obstacles in order for the country's economy to thrive. This study will address this issue. We used a cross-sectional design and a quantitative technique in our research. Data were acquired via an email questionnaire and analyzed using the structural equation modeling technique and SmartPls. The findings suggested that entrepreneur orientation and innovation are critical factors in enhancing the success of SMEs. Additionally, knowledge management acts as a buffer between entrepreneurial attitude and organizational performance, as well as between entrepreneurial innovation and organizational performance. The study's findings have a number of implications for SME management and policymakers, including the importance of innovation and knowledge management in achieving better performance standards.


Author(s):  
Mohammad Adrian ◽  
Hendrati Dwi Mulyaningsih ◽  
Santi Rahmawati

This reasearch is conducted on MMSME (Micro Small Medium Enterprises) that are participated in the MMSME Syari’ah Mentoring Program by Academicians and Practitioners (PUSPA) organized by Bank Indonesia in Bandung. MMSME who participated in PUSPA program 2016 is MMSME that included in necessity entrepreneur where MMSME operated just to fullfil the life necessities. The purpose of this reasearch was to investigate the influence of the business mentoring on the MMSME performance in PUSPA program 2016. Researcher used quantitative research method. Data were analyzed using simple regression analysis and descriptive-causal analysis. The result showed that business mentoring affect the performance of MMSME that participated in PUSPA Program 2016. Based on the calculation, coefficient of determination (R2) can be seen the influence of business mentoring variable (X) on the performance (Y) is 74%. While the remaining 26% is influenced by other factors such as entrepreneurship competence and human resources.


Author(s):  
Elsa Nanda Utami ◽  
Hendrati Dwi Mulyaningsih

This reasearch is conducted on MSME (Micro Small Medium Enterprises) that are participated in the MSME Syari’ah Mentoring Program by Academition and Practitioners (PUSPA) organized by Bank Indonesia in Bandung. MSME who participated in PUSPA program 2016 is MSME that included in necessity entrepreneur where MSME operated just to fullfil the life necessities. This program aims to improve the competence of entrepreneurship owned by MSME in term of knowledge, attitudes, and skills. Increased in the entrepreneurial comptence will have an impact on MSME perfomance both on financial term by the increase in income and non-financial term namely by the increased of the knowledge and skills like simple accounting, managing the production process, how to market the product, and know the procedures for obtaining the venture capital. The purpose of this reasearch was to investigate the influence of the entrepreneurial competence on the MSME performance in PUSPA program 2016.Researcher used quantitative research method. This research use sampling technique on non-probability sampling that is saturated sampling because the members of population less than 30 people and the entire population is a sample. Total sample in this research is 20 respondents. Data collecting in this research is done by distributing questionarries to all respondents that is MSME that pariticaped in PUSPA program 2016. Data were analyzed using simple regression analysis and descriptive-causal analysis.The result showed that entrepreneurial competenec affect the performance of MSME that participated in PUSPA Program 2016. Based on the calculation, coefficent of determination (R2) can be seen the influence of entrepreneurial compentence variable (X) on the performance (Y) is 61.7%. While the remaining 38.3 is influenced by other factors such as mentoring, motivation, and human resources.


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