Interdisciplinary Social Studies
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2022): Regular Issue

Entrepreneurship Orientation on MSME’s Performance, Competitive Advantage and Innovation Strategies as Mediation

Muchammad Andrianto Wicaksono (Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Brawijaya, Malang, East Java)
Wahdiyat Moko (Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Brawijaya, Malang, East Java)
Rofiaty Rofiaty (Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Brawijaya, Malang, East Java)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Dec 2022

Abstract

Background: The agriculture industry in Indonesia produces a wide range of goods. Coffee is one of them. One of Indonesia's biggest exports to the rest of the world is coffee. Indonesia, the third-largest producer of coffee worldwide, has acknowledged coffee as a staple good. According to Pertanian.go.id, there are 1.2 million hectares of coffee plantations in Indonesia. Community coffee plantation land makes up 96% of the plantation area, while private firms own the remaining 4%. This demonstrates the importance of smallholder plantings to Indonesia's coffee industry. Aim: This study aims to assess the extent of the implementation of entrepreneurial orientation in plantations and post-harvest processing of coffee commodities through the mediating role of competitive advantage and innovation strategies to improve the performance of MSMEs in the plantation agro-industry and post-harvest coffee in Malang Raya. research methods used survey methods. Method: The data were obtained from questionnaires and necessary documents. Testing using partial Least square (PLS-SEM) and bootstrap. Findings: The findings of this study reveal that entrepreneurial orientation has a positive and significant direct effect on the performance of MSMEs while the role of competitive advantage and innovation strategy as a mediation of entrepreneurial orientation is not able to have a positive and significant influence on the performance of MSMEs in the plantation agro-industry and post-harvest coffee in Malang Raya.

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iss

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Environmental Science Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Public Health Social Sciences

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nterdisciplinary Social Studies (ISS) is an interdisciplinary publication of social studies and writing which publishes papers to international audiences of social researchers. ISS aims to provide a forum for scholarly understanding of social studies and plays an important role in promoting the ...