Abstract
This research aims to empirically study the effect of self-learning, entrepreneurship competence, and entrepreneurship orientation on micro business performance in the special province of Yogyakarta. The research design used a quantitative approach through research instrument. The unit of analysis was 1,767 business units. The population of this microenterprise is individual; the number of samples in this study is 165. The data were gathered through face to face distribution by the researcher. Random sampling technique was used to collect the respondents of this study. The result of this study showed that all exogenous variables; self-learning, entrepreneurial competence, and entrepreneurial orientation have positive and significant effects on entrepreneurial behavior. All of these findings are proven by probability value < 0.05. The most significant influence is entrepreneurial orientation (0.504), and the second is entrepreneurial competency (0.466), and the lowest is self-learning (0.057). That is, the three exogenous variables can directly enhance entrepreneurial behavior. All exogenous variables, namely self-learning, entrepreneurial competence, and entrepreneurial orientation, do not affect the performance of micro-enterprises. All of these findings are proven by probability value < 0.05. That is, the three exogenous variables cannot directly improve the performance of micro-businesses. Since entrepreneurial behavior has a positive and significant direct effect on micro-business performance, all exogenous variables can indirectly improve micro-business performance through efforts to increase entrepreneurial action, which acts as a variable intervening. Keywords: self-learning, entrepreneurship competence, entrepreneurship orientation, micro business performance. DOI : 10.7176/JESD/10-10-15 Publication date :May 31 st 2019
Highlights
One business that is always resistant and adaptive to various economic crises is micro-enterprises
There are still few Resource-Based View (RBV) concepts developed to examine the role of entrepreneurship as a vital source of competitive advantage, even though the ability of entrepreneurs is undoubtedly the primary human resource owned by the company (Tokuda, 2005).E
Compared with entrepreneurial learning based research (Rae, 2005; Prasad, 2004; Ofstein and Renko, 2011) this study uses the theory of RBV as the parent theory to examine the effect of self- learning, entrepreneurial competence, entrepreneurial orientation on the performance of micro-entrepreneurial behavior as an intermediate variable
Summary
One business that is always resistant and adaptive to various economic crises is micro-enterprises. Microtransactions can be built only with very little capital, without a formal organizational structure, full of innovation and creativity, so micro-businesses usually represent their owners (Brock and Evans, 1986; Acs and Audretsch, 1990).E. One of the success factors of microenterprises according to Gibbons (2002) is because of the existence of selflearning as an increase in knowledge, abilities, and development of individuals where individuals choose and determine their own goals in learning, and try to use methods that support their activities. Entrepreneurship competence is the incorporation of behavioral elements, characterization, personality traits, knowledge, social roles, individual desires, and expertise. These factors underlie his actions in creating, fostering, and developing his business. The formulation of the research problem is: "Is there a mediating role for entrepreneurial behavior on the effect of self-learning, entrepreneurial competence, and entrepreneurial orientation on the performance of micro-enterprises?"E
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