Small Medium Business Research Articles

Savings and Loans Program, The Revenue of Small Micro Enterprises and Poverty Reduction among Women Groups

This research aims to understand the micro small medium business income both before and after receiving the program, to find out the number of poverty reduction, and to see the application of Islamic economic values on the women’s saving and loans program.The population of this research are members of the women’s saving and loans program, which is 215 people in total and scattered in 16 business group. Using random sampling techniques, there are 70 people that was taken into consideration. The method analysis used in in this research is using Wilcoxon rank test analysis, the poverty reduction analysis, and the Islamic economics values. Based on data analysis is(1) founded that the women’s saving and loans program affecting the micro small medium enterprises income. (2) Due to the women’s saving and loans program there are decreasing number of poverty rate about 20 percent. (3) It is realized that there are some applications of Islamic economics values upon the women’s saving and loans program, they are time extensions, fine replacement, social activities, and the improvement of society welfare.Keyword: micro small medium business, islamic economic values, saving and loans program

Perceptions of Family-friendly Management and Family-friendly Company Certification in Small and Medium Size Business

Perceptions of Family-friendly Management and Family-friendly Company Certification in Small and Medium Size Business

PENGARUH FAKTOR LATAR BELAKANG PENDIDIKAN TERHADAP KUALITAS LAPORAN KEUANGAN MELALUI PENEGTAHUAN AKUNTANSI SEBAGAI VARIABEL INTERVENING

This study aims to provide empirical evidence that educational backgrounds affect the knowledge of accounting. As well as accounting knowledge affect the quality of financial statements. This study uses purposive sampling, where the sample is the owner of the existing SMALL MEDIUM ENTERPRISE business in the city of Surabaya. The questionnaire used in this study to collect data, and data in the analysis using Smart PLS (Partial Lease Square). The results of this study indicate the influence of educational background on accounting knowledge and the influence of accounting knowledge on the quality of financial statements. Based on the results of research and limitations of research that has been described above, it can suggest the following accounting knowledge for entrepreneurs SMALL MEDIUM ENTERPRISE very useful for the development and progress of business.

Optimum Configurations for an Open Source IP-PBX System with Botswana Telecommunication Corporation’s (BTC) PSTN Network

This paper outlines how Small Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) businesses and home users can mainly implement VoIP at their home and work places. This paper also outlines how an open-source system using asterisk can be configured to its optimum configurations to work with BTC’s (Botswana Telecommunication Corporation) PSTN telephone network in Botswana and thus replacing a traditional PBX system with an IP–PBX. It was discovered that an implementation using an Open source IP-PBX system namely Asterisk to connect and make calls using a Digium TDM400P card connecting to Botswana Telecommunication Corporation’s (BTC’s) existing PSTN network in Botswana, the Echo_Can_Mark2 echo canceller in asterisk works best providing minimal echo

Creative interactions between places and communities: experiences of reactivating inland areas

This paper describes a research experience, financed and promoted by GAL CILSI through PSR Campania 2007-13 funds, focused on testing groundbreaking activities of social and economic reactivation in the inland areas. The research experience involves a network of towns of the Alta Irpinia, of which Aquilonia is the leading town. The technological approach of the research develops the dynamic dimension of the settlement system throughout a circular path in which the distinctiveness of the places and the resources are stimulated to generate new occasions for growth and new requests of development and research. The experience restores a leading role to the local craftsmen and small and medium businesses, reactivating a technological culture lying dormant to generate spin off and new economies.

Optimizing SMEs’ Business Performance Through Human Capital Management

Small medium enterprises (SMEs) provide the basic foundation for Indonesian economic and social development. SMEs employ a large number of the human capital and foster entrepreneurial side of individuals. Based on opportunity approach, SMEs can create high level of human capital and entrepreneurial competencies. This study aimed at explained the relationship between human capital and entrepreneurial competencies on the SME business performance. Study was conducted on SME’s in Central Java, Indonesia. Based on quantitative approach, this research used survey instrument by delivering questionnaire. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to analyze the data. The result showed the significant relationship between human capital, entrepreneurial competencies and SMEs performance. This suggests that SME entrepreneurs should give attention to learning activities. This study’s findings contribute to SMEs literature and human capital theory.

“SIWANPEKERJA” : THE INFORMATION SYSTEM OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, THE TRADITIONAL REGIONAL FOOD SPECIALTIES (KERUPUK, RENDANG AND SANJAI) IN PAYAKUMBUH.

A bstract The paper is based on research results on Small and Medium Enterprises in Indonesia where its scope in Payakumbuh city of West Sumatra Province. A survey conducted in 2014 until early 2015 in some units of small and medium enterprises in the city Pakumbuh include traditional food business; crackers, Sanjai and rendang. The business is still run by the traditional and still do not have an integrated information system that is adequate and do not have a database that is useless for mapping potential areas of culinary tourism, business development to the continued efforts of government assistance. The system will be built to collect all data about them in the Enterprise Information System Crackers, Sanjai and Rendang (Siwanpekerja). Data were analyzed with a system of SDLC (System Development Life cicle) that encapsulates the actors involved in this project. The Actors are ; U ser system from a cottage industry entrepreneurs, S ellers, B uyers and G overnments are summarized in an integrated information system that Payakumbuh has the most complete database in the development of culinary tourism in Indonesia . The results obtained in this study is in the form of an information system "Siwanpekerja" to accommodate the actors to belong in a database so Payakumbuh government and the Small and Medium businesses benefit greatl . Conclusion of "Siwankapus" has certain advantages, namely; facilitate the provision of assistance from the government, facilitate marketing, and entrepreneurial development for the future Keywords : Information System, T raditional F ood , C ulinary T ouris m,

The State of the Cloud

This column examines the state of the cloud. Digitization is causing huge disruptions and changes in all public/government, education and research and businesses, including enterprises and small-medium businesses. Many topics are lumped under digitization such as cloud, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), mobility, social, in-memory computing, artificial intelligence and hyper-connec-tivity. You can add to (or remove from) the list as you wish. Such digital disruption is forcing the Chief in-formation officer (CIO) to put two hats on. The first requires them to be agile, fast and flexible; and the second requires them to be effective, resourceful and steady. For the former, the CIO needs to enable busi-ness growth, drive innovation, adopt smart services and ensure easy access to information. For the latter, the CIO focuses on reducing complexity, freeing up legacy IT budgets, ensuring high-quality operations and safeguarding data privacy a security.

Peran Media Sosial sebagai Strategi Pemasaran pada Sewa Kostum Meiyu Aiko Malang

Marketing Strategies with utilize Advancement of Information Technology have impact financially efficient and practically process, with using social media can create the best result. Promoting business using social media which are free cost and can attract new customers social media user, this things very suitable if applied in SME (Small Medium Enterprises) business. This research aims to explore the utilization of social media as marketing strategy for Small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Qualitative approach with the case study is used as research design. Researchers using in-depth interview to the owner of Meiyu Aiko in Malang. The results showed that the Marketing Strategy through social media and website for the promotion of costum rent’s service in Malang can build a strong relationship between management of Meiyu Aiko with consumers both online and offline. Promotional activities can easily provide brand awareness and can be transmitted by social media followers to users of other social media. This research also emphasize social media as online advertising that could be used as marketing strategy in today’s digital era.

Aplikasi Pencari Lokasi Ukm Di Tembalang Menggunakan Location Based Service

SMEs (Small-Medium Enterprises) is the one of economical meters in Indonesia. Research step in designing the application is to determine of main problem and purpose, analysis which covering general description, functional and non-functional need. Android base aplication to search UKM Tembalang which made for searching SMEs location, and give more information about SMEs business. UKM Tembalang is a client server base aplication which made by using java programing language with eclipse software and MySQL database. Location data will be save in database which focusing on taking coorndinate that use GPS to get map and Google Maps APIs for get the route. The use of Google Maps API service and GPS make the aplication better in taking the location coordinate.beside that, the aplication also get for searching position SMEs in Tembalang, with the aplication location searching SMEs.Keywords – SMEs; Android; Location Based Service (LBS); MySQL; GPSAbstrak - UKM (Usaha Kecil Menengah) merupakan salah satu tombak perekonomian di Indonesia Aplikasi Pencari Lokasi UKM Tembalang Berbasis Android yang dibuat untuk pencarian lokasi UKM dan memberi informasi lebih tentang sebuah usaha. UKM Tembalang merupakan aplikasi berbasis client server yang dibuat dengan menggunakan bahasa pemrograman java dengan software eclipse dan menggunakan basisdata MySQL. Data lokasi kafe akan disimpan dalam basisdata yang dititik beratkan pada pengambilan koordinat yang memanfaatkan GPS untuk mendapatkan peta dan Google Maps APIs untuk mendapatkan rute. Penggunaan layanan Google Maps API dan GPS menjadikan aplikasi menjadi lebih baik dalam pengambilan koordinat lokasi. Selain itu aplikasi ini juga dapat mencari letak lokasi UKM di Tembalang, dengan adanya aplikasi pencari lokasi UKM, pengguna dapat dengan mudah menemukan UKM yang dinginkan, beserta informasi UKM yang diambil dari google maupun website dari UKM tersebut.

SOCIAL-ECONOMICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ESTABLISHMENT OF INNOVATIVE CULTURE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED BUSINESS

Actual issues of creation of small and medium sized business’s innovative culture was analyzed within current paper work. Connection between basic values of national culture and innovative development of the country was defined. We also defined the role of culture barriers in nation’s innovative development, and scrutinized external and internal factors, which obstruct the development of innovative culture in small and medium-sized entrepreneurship. Within this work, we provided the recommendations on creation of favorable conditions for innovative activity of small and medium business.

EVALUATION OF STATE STIMULATION MEASURES FOR INVESTMENT-INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY OF SMALL ENTERPRISES IN RUSSIA

Within the current paperwork, we analyze an active system of state support for small entrepreneurship in Russian Federation, modern institutions and instruments of implementation of state policy for stimulation of small business. We have conducted an analysis of activity results of Russian funds for development of investment-innovative processes in small and medium sized business. Ways for improvement of state support measures for small entrepreneurship in Russia were proposed.

Entrepreneurial Passion as Mediator of the Entrepreneurial Self Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance, Relationship: An Empirical Study in Small Medium Businesses

On the Small Medium Enterprises, the paper aims to study the effects of entrepreneurial self- efficacy on entrepreneurial performance, while mediating the identity impact, that consider to be the important stimulating factor to drive passion in entrepreneurs for developing and founding new enterprises. From a source of self-efficacy and self-concordance theory perspective, the study assumes to apply exploratory factor analysis through direct oblimin rotation in order inspect discriminant validity concepts. Further, in order to analyze the causal relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance, while taking its mediating effect study apply hierarchical regression technique using SPSS. However, empirical findings allow us to understand the significant relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance. The study also suggests to explore the impact of identity in entrepreneurial passion further its relational impact on individual self-efficacy and performance through empirical findings. The study provides a mechanism that regularized passionate entrepreneur’s self-efficacy and improves their individual performance.

Analysis Influence of Proactivity Power Business, Market Orientation, and Competitive Advantage toward Marketing Performance

This research is an empirical study on Batik SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises) in Cirebon District, West Java. This study analyzes the effect of proactivity power business, market orientation, and competitive advantage towards marketing performance. The subjects of this research were 215 Batik SMEs in Cirebon District West Java. The analysis was done using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), AMOS ver. 18. The result shows that proactivity power business, market orientation, and competitive advantage give positive influence on marketing performance of Batik SMEs. The research implication is when SME businesses focus on the effort in improving their proactivity power business and competitive advantage, it will give positive impact on marketing performance. Other research finding reveals that the orientation of customer and orientation of competitor have some effects on marketing performance. In addition, SME businesses should know what customers want and they should be able to identify their competitors in order to improve their marketing performance.

Relevance of Cloud Computing: A Case for UK Small and Medium Sized Tourism Firms

AbstractCloud computing represents a connection of internet technologies and personal or business computing that is changing the way computing solutions are designed, delivered and managed. This model of computing where all data, application, are hosted over a network is a significant shift from the traditional model of computing where data, software’s resources are hosted on a local computer or the client server model of business computing where resources are hosted on the firms servers and requires specialist staff for implementing and maintaining IT services. For several organizations especially in the case of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME’s), the cloud is an attractive technology solution as it enables them to reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT by passing the demands of maintaining hardware and software to a third party i.e. a cloud service provider thus enabling them to focus their spend on growing the business while developing innovative services. This paper draws on the concept of cloud computing to illustrate the significance of cloud technology to small medium businesses in the UK tourism industry-an industry heavily dependent on the internet for its survival. The study was conducted through an extensive review of academic journals, publications, articles as well as industry white papers and reports. This paper reveals that cloud computing drives small tourism firms to become more customer focused while enabling them quickly respond to tourist needs.

ANALISIS EFISIENSI PENGGUNAAN FAKTOR –FAKTOR PRODUKSI PADA USAHA KECIL DAN MENENGAH BATIK DI KELURAHAN KAUMAN KOTA PEKALONGAN

The research want to know about influence of asset, labor, and main material toward production values , and analyzes of technical efficiency, cost efficiency, and economic efficiency in small and medium business in Kauman, Pekalongan uses primary data from 33 unit batik entrepreneur in Kauman, Pekalongan. Data were analyzed by quantitative-description method, regression, and efficiency analysis. Result of research shows that main material and asset influence to production price of little and middle batik business in Kauman, Pekalongan, but labor variable doesn’t influences. T-test shows that asset variable and main material variable give positive influence toward production price of batik. Efficiency count shows that techniques efficiency is 0,8427. Efficiency price is 2,3221; economic efficiency is 1,9568; and return to scale value is 4,525. That is shows the position of batik business at increasing return to scale

Determinants for South African SMEs to Adopt Broadband Internet Technologies

AbstractInternet based technology is globally endorsed as a stimulant for small business success (Chibelushi and Costello, 2009). For the last twenty years, the Small Medium Enterprise (SME) business segment is seen as a key driver to social and economic growth in South Africa (Manuel, 1995). The purpose of the research was to identify and rank all socio‐psychological influences on South African SMEs at macro (institutional), meso (industrial) and micro (individual) levels to adopt and use broadband based internet. The Technology‐Organisational‐Environmental (TOE) model proposed by Tornatzky and Fleischer (1990) was augmented with the Reasoned Action Approach (RAA) (Fishbein and Ajzen, 2011) to ensure reasonable inter‐relatedness and defragmentation of the various socio‐psychological items, including environmental, industry and technology level influences. Exploratory factor analysis was used to establish specific factors influencing broadband adoption amongst SMEs in South Africa. Three levels of statistical testing were conducted: testing strength of all items using exploratory factor analysis, testing factor impact on independent variables (business activity and turnover) through one‐way ANOVA and predictability testing using logistic regression analysis. This was done across multiple SME sectors and business sizes. Purposive sampling was used, with a target of both users and non‐users of broadband technologies, and a response rate of 14.1% (211 valid observations) was obtained across both sets. From the ANOVA analysis, there was a significant impact of technology drivers on retail businesses, and higher impact on manufacturing than on transport. It was found that organisational elements related significantly differently across varying sizes of businesses, especially between retail versus manufacturing entities. Finally, for the environmental factor, supplier and customer influence on SMEs weighed in relatively higher than competitor pressure. It is recommended that to enhance business climate for broadband adoption, key operator tactics for supply need to be defined and market conditions adjusted to influence demand. Ultimately, the paper suggests that an ecosystem of elements that must be managed to assist in widespread adoption, over and above technology readiness and possibilities in using broadband based ICT for SME growth.

Study on Performance Enhancement of Design Support service for Small and Medium Business

Study on Performance Enhancement of Design Support service for Small and Medium Business

How Perceptions of the Global Economic Slowdown Impact and Local Risks Adversely Affect Perceived Opportunities and Subsequent Startup Activities

The Great Recession which began in 2008 is the worst global recession since World War II. Arguably, this global economic slowdown began with failures in financial regulation and housing policies. Undisputable are the adverse effects of this global financial crisis. Worldwide wealth was destroyed. Unemployment rose precipitously. Small businesses and medium businesses found it difficult to access funding sources. Large businesses reduced investments. However, little has been empirically established regarding the effects of the global slowdown on entrepreneurial startups. This study applies a cognitive lens to examine the effects of the perceived global slowdown impact along with the effects of perceived local risks on startup activities when mediated by perceived opportunities. All hypothesized relationships are found to be significant. Equally important, perceived opportunity is found to fully mediate the relationship between perceived global slowdown impact and startup activity. It is also found to partially mediate the relationship between perceived local risks and startup activities. Hence, this manuscript establishes the basis for beginning to understand how the perceived global slowdown impact is relevant for global startup activity.

The effects of entrepreneurial orientations of small-medium enterprises in Tamil Nadu-Southern India

Entrepreneurial orientation is a set of entrepreneurial behaviour that an entrepreneur uses towards their business performance. Entrepreneurial orientation compliments the entrepreneurs’ to work proactively on their small medium business so as to attain their desire goals. Small-medium enterprises businesses have been the means of support for those who depend on it for income. Hence, the effectiveness of entrepreneurial orientation on small-medium enterprises was to enhance the individual’s livelihood and at the same time contributes to the local economy growth. The entrepreneurial orientations have dimensions like autonomy, innovativeness, risk-taking, proactiveness and competitive aggressiveness. This research was to find out the effectiveness of entrepreneurial orientation on small medium enterprises in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu-India. A sampling of 400 entrepreneurs was taken across the eight sub-districts of Thanjavur district. Louis Guttman’s scalogram analysis, K-mean cluster analysis, ANNOVA and F-statistics were used for evaluating the data. The result reveals that there is a strong effect of entrepreneurial orientation among the entrepreneurs especially entrepreneurs from Kumbakonam, Thanjavur and Thiruvaiyaru, sub-district (Taluks) of Thanjavur district which is famous for pilgrimage.