The Development of Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and the Role of Digital Ecosystems During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022 ◽  
pp. 123-147
Author(s):  
Marko S Hermawan ◽  
Ubaidillah Nugraha

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been the backbone of Indonesia's economy for over 100 years. There is nearly 64-million-unit business, with 98% of the market share belonging to the micro-business and 52% categorized as informal. Despite the uncertainty created by the prolonged crisis, a path of recovery is happening in the SME sector. Continuous effort to support SMEs has been planned include mapping out a cluster program. This chapter illustrates challenges and types of resilience and cluster issues facing SMEs that need to be resolved to prepare SMEs for recovery, and one of them is information technology. For many businesses, including SMEs, participation in the digital economy is the key to greater resiliency. The development of SMEs in Indonesia is an interesting topic with an actual illustration of the recent trends of Asian countries' economies and businesses in the current COVID-19 pandemic.

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Lucya Erlinda Sonia ◽  
Stefanie Gianto

Financial management is a problem that is quite difficult for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia. The lack of awareness and knowledge of SMEs owner regarding the accounting process considered as the root causes of their financial management difficulties. Based on that, researcher aims to help one of SMEs in Surabaya which is Omah Duren Surabaya, in order to know about the process of recording and reporting a SME, then find a way to improve it in a diligent way. Researcher uses interviews, observations and documents sheets to analyze and know-how Omah Duren business process. The information that gained from Omah Duren owner and transaction data, as well as direct observation in recording and reporting activities is one of researcher data sources. Researcher concluded that Omah Duren SME’s still not performing the simple accounting process in accordance with generally accepted. Therefore, researcher provide a recommendations in helping them in recording and reporting their financial effectively and efficiently. This research will also discuss the role of recording and reporting that is generally accepted for SMEs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Emi Suwarni ◽  
Maidiana Astuti Handayani

This study aims to find the strategy of developing MSMEs based on potential and opportunities in the period of covid-19. The research object is the MSME unit in Bandar Lampung City, especially MSME banana chips. This study used qualitative descriptive analysis with SWOT analysis. Based on the results it is known that the position of MSMEs is in quadrant I. The strategy of developing MSMEs is to increase the potential and take advantage of opportunities. One of the strategies is the utilization of information technology and social media in the development of MSMEs of the region's flagship banana chip products. The results of this research are expected to be useful as consideration for MSMEs to develop their businesses even during the COVID 19 pandemic. Likewise, for the government to actively socialize the use of digital media for MSMEs so that MSME development will increase. The limitation of this research is that it has not quantitatively calculated the role of social media and information technology in MSME development. This could be an opportunity for further research


Author(s):  
Hartrisari Hanggoro Hardjomidjojo ◽  
Harry Imantho ◽  
Anissa Damayanti

The Role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in supporting Indonesian economic activity are significant. SMEs face many obstacles in their business development. Empowerment of SMEs in Bogor by local governments carried out in conjunction with the Department of Cooperatives and SMEs. This study establishes the spatial model design of SMEs in Bogor area to improve the competitiveness of products in Bogor city. The analysis shows that SMEs in Bogor city is still in the phase of development, market penetration, and also product development. The model shows the average performance index of SMEs in Bogor is only 62.29, 19 among 41 have index values about 50. From the competitiveness analysis, authors could see that among 41 SMEs can be categorized in 4 quadrants. Strategic program could be developed based on the position in the quadrant. It can be concluded that in general SMEs in Bogor city have not been ready for internationally competition. Government should develop specific strategy for each SMEs based on the quadrant position defined by the model


Author(s):  
Endang Wirjatmi Trilestari ◽  
Heny Handayani

The Quadro helix concept is used in the innovations for economic development. The Quadro helix elements include the government as an innovator and facilitator to facilitate the growth of business opportunities, the business as entrepreneurs, and the civil society as a source of labor, service users, innovation developers and academics as laboratories that have not run well. Meanwhile, Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is a business unit of creativity and innovation that created to mobilize the economy. Boyolali's potential develops with its MSMEs in the village. In terms of Village Development Index (IPD) are 215 developing villages, namely 45 independent villages and one underdeveloped village. This has become a problem because empowering the village economy did not optimal. Referring to the regional superior potential and IPD, Boyolali Regency requires strengthening capacity especially those related to MSMEs. Total of 26,210 MSMEs and 1,103 MSMEs spread across 19 districts in all districts that are under various conditions at Boyolali Regency. This research was conducted a descriptive method by looking at the roles and conditions of various MSMEs. The results indicate the lack of the role of educational institutions or academics in participating of developing MSMEs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 214
Author(s):  
Noor Hadi

This research are intended to explore the utilization of information technology for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)to develop market share in the form of e-marketing. The results showed that SMEs in the city of Semarang has utilized information technology, from the simplest to the advanced. Hand Phone and computer are a tool that used it, although for computers not all SMEs have been using it. The form of communications media used by SMEs such as: SMS, whatshap, e-mail, website, blog, istagram, blackbarry, line, and the like. The acceptable outcomes of SMEs when they use technology are in addition to encouraging increased sales, as well as obtaining convenience when communicating with customers, ordering, marketing products, identifying customer needs, identify supplier needs, consumer surveys and the like.


Author(s):  
Albert K. Toh ◽  
Yupo Chan

Although the topic of supply chain (SC) and logistics (L) has been discussed in many fora, placing it in today’s cyber (e) space is still a subject that receives little attention. This paper analyzes the role of e-SC/L in the context of global business to business (B2B) electronic commerce (e-commerce). A major beneficiary of e-SC/L are small and medium enterprises (SMEs), who can leverage information technology to bypass the extra cost associated with employing a third-party broker, who traditionally bridges the gap between suppliers and retailers. In this paper, a framework for incorporating both e-commerce and e-SC/L for SMEs is proposed in an e-marketplace context. The model consists of a trading platform with e-SC/L capabilities, and a classification scheme for different levels e-SC/L collaboration, presented with relevant types of information, communication and transportation technology (ICTT) needed to facilitate the design of each collaboration level. Included in the highest level are transportation, identification, and modeling and simulation technologies that enable the design of effective forward-looking collaboration.


2011 ◽  
pp. 1517-1530
Author(s):  
Jerzy Kisielnicki

The chapter is devoted to the subject the transformation of SMEs due to the application of Information Technology (IT). These enterprises, despite their significant position in local economies, had limited possibilities while competing with large-scale enterprises (LSE) on the global market. Consequently, their role more and more often was reduced to the role of satellites. The use of IT has allowed SMEs to transform into virtual organizations and in this form succeed in the global market. The author has focused on the analysis of the following problems: virtualization as a direction of the development of SME, analysis of its strengths and weaknesses, and new opportunities and risks face medium-scale small construction enterprise that, by using information technology and creating a virtual organization, was able to defeat a large-scale enterprise (LSE) in an international tender for construction of a hotel complex.


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