The study intends to find out motivation behind domestic consumers’ decision to buy domestic products by focusing on the role of social identity and empathy. Social identity helps to explain the position of local identity towards local products amidst myriad foreign products, and empathy helps to grasp the role of empathetic feeling towards local products that look inferior under foreign products domination. It does so by integrating theories of social identity, empathy and planned behavior. The novelty of this study lies on exploration of empathy in the relationship between national identity and domestic product purchasing intention, which is so far absent in management literature. Determination of sample size follows the rule of ten multiplications to indicator number. The respondents are consumers in a mall in Kendari. It applies convenient technique for sampling. It applies Smart PLS for data analysis. The results should be that empathy affects domestic purchasing intention and so does national identity on domestic purchasing intention, meaning that empathy partially mediates the effect of national identity on domestic product purchasing intention. Meanwhile, ethnocentrism leads to domestic purchasing intention, while national identity has significant effects on domestic product purchasing intention and ethnocentrism.

This study aims to determine and analyze the effect of taxpayer awareness, tax knowledge, tax sanctions, and public service accountability on taxpayer compliance. The population of this study is the motor vehicle taxpayer in Kendari City. Samples are determined using accidental sampling techniques and the number of samples is determined using the Slovin formula. Based on the results of data analysis using multiple linear regression, the study found that taxpayer awareness, tax knowledge, tax sanctions, and public service accountability had positive and significant effects on taxpayer compliance in meeting tax obligations. This means that the higher the level of taxpayers’ awareness, tax knowledge, tax sanctions, and public service accountability, the better the taxpayer compliance.

This research is performed in order to empirically analyze and demonstrate trade principles and Islamic syariah (sharia) adherence-based banking performance by employing maqasid sharia index. This research is an explanatory research that aims to explain the causal relationship between variables using a quantitative approach. The study's population is eight Islamic banks based on data used in this study. Study period lasted from 2010 to 2014. The analysis method used to answer hypothesis proposed in this study is PLS. The results of this study exhibits that trade principles possesses no significant effect on the performance of Islamic banking, trade principles possesses a significant effect on sharia adherence, and forementioned adherence has a significant effect on the sharia banking performance.

The research was conducted with the aim of analyzing the influence of emotions, materialism, financial literacy, risk perception and financial experience on propensity to indebtedness. Primary data was obtained through distributing 100 questionnaires to Kredit Plus Kendari customers then processed with the SPSS 25.0 software application. The results of the research that have been done state that there is an effect of emotion, financial literacy and experience on propensity to indebtedness which has a negative significant effect, the effect of materialism on propensity to indebtedness has a positive significant effect, while the risk perception of propensity to indebtedness has no significant effect.

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