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Improving Small Business Performance: The Role of Entrepreneurial Intensity and Innovation

  • SUMIATI, Sumiati
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.10
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    • pp.211-218
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    • 2020
  • The Small and Medium Enterprise is currently getting more attention from the Indonesian government as the contribution of this sector to the regional and national income has increased. Though the government is providing a lot of attention as well as facilities to the small businesses in the manufacturing sector, they face intense competition. Thus, the small enterprises need to ensure that they achieve good business performance. This research aims to investigate the role of entrepreneurial intensity and innovation in improving the performance of small businesses in Indonesia. For this purpose, one hundred and eighty-six small business owners participated in the survey. The data was analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling. The hypothesis results show that entrepreneurial intensity and innovation have a proven role in business performance of small enterprises. Entrepreneurial intensity in particular, significantly impacts innovation and exploration. And innovation is crucial for business performance. The results imply that to increase business performance, the owner and the manager also need to raise their entrepreneurial spirit, as it can enhance their willingness to explore and use their business experience to do more innovation activities. The more innovation is done by the company; the business performance is more likely to improve.

Interaction Analysis between Construction Business Indicators and Business Performance Indicators of Specialty Contractors providing Heavy Equipment (기계중심 전문건설업체의 건설경기지표와 경영성과지표의 상관성 분석)

  • Kim, Nam-Sik;Lee, Dong Wook
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.459-465
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    • 2014
  • This study is to suggest specialty contractors with countermeasures to construction orders falling off, one of the construction business indicators for the construction industry, by analyzing the impact of dwindling construction orders to business performance indicators of specialty contractors as well as identifying inter-relationships between those performance indicators. To do this study, a data was analyze for construction business indicators and business performance indicators of specialty contractors providing heavy equipment. For specialty contractors that provide and utilize heavy equipment, the amount of construction orders is imposing a lasting impact to the turnover ratio of current assets. Therefore, it is determined that a business strategy needs to be established in order to secure current assets to respond to decrease in construction orders.

Innovation and Creativity in Business Practices

  • Venkatesh, Bharti;Qureshi, Shazia
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 2012
  • "Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people." By Steve Jobs, 2003. As define by Linda Naiam - Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing. Innovation is the production or implementation of an idea. If you have ideas, but don't act on them, you are imaginative but not creative. So in order to maintain the pace with the changing business scenario and coping with the competition Innovation and Creativity is considered a mandatory tool for a business to exist and grow in market. Whether a company is Employee centric or Business centric Innovation and creativity has to have its space in order to keep a business ahead of others in the Market. Also it's not just the competition which has led to the Innovation and Creativity in Business practices it's also the demanding chunk of consumers and customers who are aware and prefer maximum choices before making a final deal. Another reason as to why there is a change in business practices is the globalization of businesses where you need to rope in the Innovative ideas to launch and sustain in new market. There had been tremendous shift in business practices but to give a room to innovative ideas and implement that creativity need ample to space and vision along with an attitude where in you can resist for getting an immediate results from innovative business practices. Corporate Creativity is characterized by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. Generating fresh solutions to problems, and the ability to create new products, processes or services for a changing market, are part of the intellectual capital that give a company its competitive edge. Creativity is a crucial part of the innovation equation. The innovation and creativity is not limited to any area of business, it can start from your waiting lounge to your board room meeting depending upon how the things are perceived and implemented for the betterment of people and business. The purpose of this research is to understand the latest creative business approaches and practices that organizations are following to be different from their competitors. Also this shift from generic business practices to the Innovative and Creative approach seems to take the business into new world. This approaches means starting from the bottom of the Pyramid and finally touching the pinnacles in Innovation and creativity. The paper will discuss on the various areas of business where in innovative approaches can be roped in and sets new bench mark altogether in the business arena.

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A Study on the Activation Plans of Business Incubators's E-Commerce (창업보육센터 입주기업 전자상거래 활성화 방안)

  • Kim, Jin-Su;Jang, Won-Chul;Hwang, Ki-Tae;Kim, Dae-Jin;Hwang, In-Ho
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.65-82
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    • 2007
  • This aim of study is to offer three way(the E-commerce operations site, electronic catalog site, the E- commerce function improvement, the off-line E-biz revitalization) for E-commerce revitalization of business incubator center's resident enterprise through interview with business incubator center's resident enterprise, business incubator center's manager and the operation company of the COBIAN as E-commerce site of business incubator center. Solutions presented by business incubator center are considered from various angles to improve law perception in the COBIAN and to exchange contact information among BI companies in the COBIAN. And The solution emphasize an efficiency as well as an absolute investment to present the solutions that are able to do better important function as business incubator center than any other. furthermore, a business incubator center presents solutions for solving problems with small and medium enterprises as well as the COBIAN, which is doing E-commerce operation.

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Sole Proprietorship Business Succession in Malaysia: A Perspective of Civil and Islamic Law

  • HAMDAN, Afifah;NOR MUHAMAD, Nasrul Hisyam;KAMARUDIN, Mohd Khairy;SAMAT@DARAWI, Abdul Basit;AB RAHIM, Nik Mohd Zaim;MOHAMAD NORZILAN, Nur Izzati
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.285-293
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    • 2022
  • Issues relating to business inheritance are a primary focus for business owners. Business inheritance is critical to ensuring that the business can be managed by the next generation and family members can benefit from the earnings and revenues. Therefore, preliminary planning must be done while the business owner is still alive by selecting the appropriate business inheritance mechanism for Muslims in Malaysia. The mechanisms of business inheritance, notably faraid, hibah, amanah, and hibah amanah will be examined in this paper from both a civil and Islamic perspective. By reviewing written journals and previous research, this research utilizes the library method. According to this study, business succession can be carried out by naming a beneficiary as a partner in the company or by completing the ownership transfer process while the owner is still living. In the other situation, it can be done by anyone among the heirs agreeing to re-register the business as usual. Meanwhile, there are four main instruments in Islamic law that can be used: faraid, hibah, amanah, and commercial hibah. According to this study, each instrument has a different impact on business succession. Entrepreneurs should use these instruments in their firm succession planning.

A Study on Success Factors of Coastal Fisheries in Busan Region (부산시 연안 어선어업 경영체의 성공요인에 관한 연구)

  • KWON, Hyeok-Seung;SONG, Jung-Hun
    • The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2015
  • Due to the environmental changes such as decreasing and aging fishing population and increasing imported marine products, improvement of fishing business competitiveness has become one of important issues. This study aimed to analyze the coastal fishing business units in Busan region and compare their business performances in order to find out success factors. The logistic regression analysis between 4 determination factors of competitiveness and business performances showed that the ship tonnage in the factor conditions, catch of species of fishing types'kg per price in the demand conditions, cooperative sales ratio in the related & supporting industries, and net per cost in the firm strategy, and structure & rivalry had the positive(+) impacts on business performances.

E-Business Strategies : The Antecedents and Consequences (e 비즈니스 전략 : 선행요인과 결과)

  • Koo, Chul-Mo;Kim, Yona-Jin;Nam, Ki-Chan
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.49-68
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    • 2006
  • E-business strategy has interests in Issues of strategic positioning and its impact on firm performance. These studies address the environmental factors as antecedents to strategic decision makings and its consequences such like firm performance. However most studies has not considered the role of business models In explaining e-business firm performance. We adopt Porter's generic strategies to the e-business context. We Identify business models and e-business environmental factors as antecedents and then examine these factors Influence on firm performance. We find that uncertainty of environment has a negatively related to the strategic choices of e-Business firms; in contrast, market turbulence positively affects the level of adoption of all the strategies. Among the strategies, marketing differentiation only makes an Impact on firm performance.

Web Service-based Enactment Architecture for the Efficient Process Execution (효율적인 프로세스 실행을 위한 웹서비스 기반의 실행 아키텍처)

  • Yun, Ho-Seong;Jeong, Ji-Su;Choe, In-Jun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.710-713
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    • 2004
  • There have been numerous research and development efforts to automate business processes or execute business processes automatically. Especially, Web service is considered to be one of the most promising technologies. Existing Web service composition languages such as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) and BPML (Business Process Modeling Language) do not provide full semantic support for business processes. This paper proposes a 3-layer model that consists of business process layer and service layer which can seamlessly integrates business process semantics with service semantics. The proposed model and architecture will enable effective management of business processes as well-defined corporate assets, services that execute tasks to achieve goals of business processes, and software components that comprise services.

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The Immersing Improvement of TDR for the Greatest Results in Business (비즈니스 성과극대화를 위한 TDR 몰입도 향상)

  • Lee Myung Ho;Kim Tai Kyoo
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.196-207
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    • 2004
  • TDR(Tear Down & Redesign)means that renounce the past resolutely, from a white paper condition, let's change directions. That is, let's redesign from the basic of the establishment of the construction process. Through the switchover the conception, innovate totally the whole existing processes. TDR is the best core innovation activity. The ultimate aim of the TDR activity induces the employees to do more productive business and obtain excellent results in the future by solving the problems, which are the nonproductive business in the business process on the objective view, the business that customers don't recognize the value, the same old practice of business, and the unsettled business from the restriction of resources. By organizing the related to workers of those business, they can solve the problems for 3-4months by full time working This paper inquires what are the obstruction factors on the process of executing TDR activity. Through the search of the reformation plan for the improvement of immersion degree, it presents some methods to be successful business.

A Design of East Asia Business Exhibition (동아시아 비지니스 전시관 디자인)

  • Han, Suck-Woo;Kang, Hye-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.55-56
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    • 2007
  • Since the twentieth century, Business exhibition have experienced display replacement sand apace alterations. As a result, not only the visual space background of the spectators but the structure systems and positions of the construction space have also been changed. The aim of this study is to establish the actual conditions of the exhibition's facilities, especially on the focus of the Business exhibition. We will can grope contents and method for successful exhibit through Business Exhibition that is connected form and position of exhibit between exhibit space of such Business Exhibition and we may achieve purpose of Business Exhibition. The purpose of this research is to seek the countermeasures that can be used in the stage of planning for the Business exhibition constructions and exhibition space by suggesting, based on the above mentioned points, the development of the indicators and analyzing methods to understand the structural attributes of the Business exhibition space through exhibition method and design.

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