Indigenous people have deep local knowledge of environmental sustainability and natural resource utilization, which are sources of innovations that often are drivers for economic growth in rural areas. This study explores the knowledge structure of indigenous innovation in village enterprises through content analysis of research publications. The resulting knowledge structure can be used to set up a roadmap for the studies on village enterprise and in a broader context to build metadata as a foundation for an evaluation system of village enterprise. The authors deploy topic modeling and co-word analyses to scrutinize 775 village enterprise research articles from the Scopus database and 665 paper from ScienceDirect. In the topic modeling, topic models village enterprises are setup. The topics found are local ownership (such as market and property), land, services (housing, health care), economy and public policy, financial service micro-credit, environmental pollution control, local business sustainability, social entrepreneurship, and household income, bioenergy based electrification, and bumdes management. Four sectors of the natural resource-based indigenous economy were identified: traditional food production, bio-energy for fuel and electricity, agriculture, and tourism. The topic models are used to comprehend knowledge structure in the village enterprises, whereby the focus is to uncover the context of indigenous village enterprise and its states of the art.
The concept of social innovation is increasingly being discussed to pursue sustainable development. New terms and keywords are created to cope with new ideas in various contexts. How these terms are developed in the current structure of knowledge and how we can reinterpret the semantic networks with the empirical context are the primary motivation of this paper. The rural social innovation knowledge structure is constructed to understand the phenomena better and cope with future needs. A multi-methods methodology is applied to construct the knowledge structure with the primary method being topic modeling. The results from topic modeling, co-word analysis, and co-citation are combined to co-construct the knowledge structure. The narratives for the built knowledge structure are then developed in the context of rural social innovation to enhance our understanding. This study found three findings. First, the trend of keywords “community”, “governance”, and “rural” have increased significantly in the field of social innovation. Second, an investigation of the intensity of the topics found six dominant groups of topics, namely actor, business model, natural resources, food security, governance, and urban. Third, the co-word analysis shows that the word innovation is closely related to the terms: sustainable development, social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, rural community, electronic commerce, co-design, and social behavior. The mapping of key terms shows that the structure of the global social innovation research landscape is quite complex. However, it can be broken down into five main parts: objectives, inputs, transformations, outputs, and outcomes.
Efforts to improve the performance of research and scientific publications in Indonesian universities are still a challenge. Various problems often become an inhibiting factor for lecturers' research performance. This study analyzes how the performance and factors were inhibiting the performance of research and scientific publications at the Universitas Terbuka, which is the only Open and Distance Learning Higher Education institution (PTTJJ) in Indonesia. The research method used is qualitative descriptive. The results showed that although the number of research and journal publications increased during 2017-2019, the performance of research and scientific publications of Universitas Terbuka lecturers has not been optimal. Of the five factors are considered as obstacles, three of which are factors that are generally also found in other universities, namely the lack of competence and motivation of lecturers in researching, lack of research/laboratory support facilities, and the research culture among lecturers has not yet developed well. Meanwhile, two other factors were different findings, namely the issue of lecturer recruitment and development policies in the early days of the establishment of the Universitas Terbuka, which was not in line with the needs of the study program, and the problem of characteristics and workload of PTTJJ lecturers which are different from conventional university lecturers. Universitas Terbuka lecturers are not only obliged to carry out the tri dharma functions of higher education but they are also burdened with tasks related to the management of PTTJJ or quite a lot of academic administrative work.
This paper attempts to explore employability factors of Indonesian accounting professionals in ASEAN region. A Career EDGE model is used as the employability framework. A qualitative approach is employed to obtain in-depth information and achieves insights from employer, employees, and experts. The finding showed that career development learning, experience (work and life), degree subject knowledge, skills and understanding, generic skills, emotional intelligence, self-confidence, and reflection and evaluation are factors that influence employability. Indonesian accountants need to enhance degree subject knowledge, skills and understanding, generic skills, and emotional intelligence, particularly in IFRS standards and communication skills. Managerial and theoretical implications are mentioned, as well as limitation and recommendation.
Rural-based social innovation is increasingly receiving attention in most developing countries. Community-based entrepreneurship is an essential instrument for realizing the potential among marginal and deprived communities isolated from the mainstream economy and is important in bringing social upliftment. Community empowerment helps in eradicating poverty, especially in rural areas since the households can create their welfare based on the local resource. Community-based enterprises usually evolve in a geographical region with the business being set up, owned, and controlled by the local community with a focus on self-supporting jobs. The present research analyzes the community-based enterprise practice as one of the forms of social innovation and identifies its critical success factors. The research uses qualitative methods and case studies. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and observation. Research result indicates that initiators forming groups and collaborating with other parties to support product commercialization will scale up the community-based practice. Local government policy interventions in the form of financial and technical support become leverage for community-based enterprise activities so that all community members are self-employed and economically independent. Keywords: social enterprise, community-based entrepreneurship, sustainable development goals
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