The study aims to develop concepts originating through empirical research models to build superior competitiveness and optimal performance achievement. Therefore, to bridge these goals, the study addresses several indicators/items as a novelty, namely, entrepreneurship insight factors, market orientation, knowledge-sharing, innovation, managerial capability, product strategy, process and service improvement, resources capability to improve performance and increase competitiveness by empirical model direct, mediating and indirect effect. The total sample in this study is 497 eligible SMEs that partner with go-food in Makassar City. All research samples are the owner or the person in charge of the business; the data collection period is from May to December 2019. Data are collecting using a survey with 64 construct questions, summarized in seven manifest variables. The research method uses quantitative tools, with SMART-PLS as a statistical tool. This study develops sixteen hypotheses; all of the hypotheses are supported both directly, indirectly, and mediated. The study also found that the link based on CCT, RBV, and TAM Theory is the right choice of theories, as the foundation of this study was very reliable and valid. Indeed, all of the grounded methods have implications both in theory and its main application for the business in the online marketplace.

The background of this research is related to a phenomenon of millennials who prefer to change their financial behavior into cashless transactions from cash-based transactions. Factors of benefits (economic benefits, seamless transactions, and convenience) and risks (financial risks, legal risks, security risks, and operational risks) experienced by millennials are examined to observe their effects on the continuance intention of financial technology (FinTech) payment. FinTech users are classified into two types, namely early adopters and late adopters. This study examines the variables of continuance intention of FinTech payment, economic benefits, seamless transactions, convenience, financial risks, legal risks, security risks, operational risks, perceived benefits, and perceived risks simultaneously and is the first to be conducted on millennials in Jakarta. The methodology used was the Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square. The data were collected through questionnaires distributed to 313 respondents. The results of this research show that convenience is the most influential benefit factor towards the continuance intention of FinTech payment. Operational risks are the only factor that do not significantly affect the continuance intention of FinTech payment. The differences between the effects of benefits and risks are found in both of the user types. The implication of this research is to further understand influential factors in millennials’ decisions to use FinTech payment services.

This study aims to investigate the effect of loss aversion, regret aversion, and market factors, on investment decision making with the moderating role of locus of control. Data collection is done by distributing questionnaires. The survey was conducted on individual investors in the Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta to obtain a sample of 281. This research uses the Structural Equation Modeling approach. The statistical tool used is LISREL 8.8. This study found that loss aversion, regret aversion, and market factors significantly influence investment decision making. Locus of control plays the role of moderation between loss aversion, regret aversion, market factors, and investment decision making. The novelty in this study reveals the research that needs to be done to encourage investors to make rational decisions and control the required rate of returns through their locus of control. This research helps investors to make decisions logically and rationally with an open mind, high-performance thoughts and positive actions for investment goals that produce positive returns.

This study was conducted to examine the impact of working capital management on cash holding in Indonesian consumer goods industries. Cash holding can be managed in various business sectors, such as the industrial sector. This sector investment will bring a future positive impact because it keeps growing continuously by following society's need demands. The manufacturing sector is still the highest source of economic growth in 2018, with 5.17% of the economic growth, 0.91% of it from the manufacturing sector. The samples of this study were consumer goods industry companies that have been go public and listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2016-2018 period. There were 34 consumer goods industry companies involved as the samples of this research selected through the purposive sampling technique. Cash holding as the dependent variable was measured using cash and total assets. Working capital net of cash as the independent variable was assessed using current assets, current debt, cash, and total assets. While the cash conversion cycle, financial leverage, company size, sales growth, and cash flow ratios are the control variables. This research used the panel data regression method and individual test (t-test). The results show that working capital net of cash, cash conversion cycle, sales growth, company size, and flow ratio variables have a significant positive effect on cash holding, while financial leverage variable has a significant negative effect on cash holding. For the financial managers of the consumer good industry companies, the implication of this research is the managers need to increase the total number of assets so that the company can fund its business activities, use debt appropriately to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the company, and increase profits to improve the ability to pay the debt before the due date.

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