<p><em>In order to achieve positive performance growth in this era of global competition, Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) must have sustainable competitive advantages. Competitive advantages can be obtainedif SME have Valuable, Rare, Inimitable and Non-substitutable (VRIN) resources. Therefore this research aimed to study the effects of VRIN resources to competitive advantages and performance. The subjects of this study was 187 SMEs listed in Cooperation Office and SME of Medan. Using path analysis, the obtained result shows that rareness gave direct effects to performance and in-immitable gave indirect effects to performance through competitive advantages as intervening.</em></p><em>Keywords: VRIN, competitive advantage, performance, small medium enterprises</em>
company size on financial performance through corporate social responsibility either directly or indirectly in mining companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. This research is causal associative research and the type of data used is quantitative data. The data used is obtained from the company's financial statements that have been audited on the Indonesia Stock Exchange during the study period. The analytical method used is descriptive analysis, testing the assumptions of the hypothesis test model. The population of this study are mining companies for the 2017-2020 period, which totaled 50 companies. The sample in this study amounted to 15 companies. The results of this study indicate that environmental performance has a positive and significant effect on company performance, environmental costs have a negative and significant effect on company performance, company size has a negative and insignificant effect on company performance, corporate social responsibility has a negative and insignificant effect on company performance, and environmental performance has a negative effect. and not significant to the company's performance through corporate social responsibility, environmental costs have a positive and insignificant effect, the size of environmental companies has a negative and insignificant effect on company performance through corporate social responsibility.
A healthy lifestyle today is very important because the body is always primed during a pandemic. Gerak Virtual Race Indonesia app provides the best solution for tracking sports activities. The required feel can provide good application performance and trusted services in order to increase the intensity of use. This study aims to determine customer value and technology acceptance of behavioral intentions through customer trust and value in the Gerak Virtual Race Indonesia application. The research sample was 220 people who were determined by purposive sampling method. Primary data was obtained by questionnaire, and the statistical test used was SEM (Structural Equation Model) using IBM's AMOS. The results of this study indicate that the customer value variable has a positive and significant effect on trust directly. Trust variable has a positive and significant effect on behavioral intentions directly. Trust variable mediates positive and significant relationship between customer value and behavioral intention indirectly. Technology acceptance variable has a positive and significant effect on customer attitudes directly. Customer attitude variable has no significant positive effect on behavioral intentions directly. The customer attitude variable does not mediate and does not have a significant relationship between technology acceptance and behavioral intentions indirectly.Gaya hidup sehat saat ini sangat penting karena tubuh dituntut selalu prima disaat pandemi. Aplikasi Gerak Virtual Race Indonesia memberikan solusi terbaik untuk mentracking aktivitas olahraga. Perusaahan diharuskan dapat memberikan performa aplikasi yang baik dan layanan yang terpercaya agar dapat meningkatkan intensi penggunaan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui customer value dan technology acceptance terhadap behavior intention melalui trust dan customer value pada aplikasi Gerak Virtual Race Indonesia. Sampel penelitian sebanyak 220 orang yang ditentukan dengan metode purposive sampling. Data primer diperoleh dengan kuesioner dan uji statistik yang digunakan adalah SEM (Structural Equation Model) menggunakan AMOS IBM. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa variabel customer value berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap trust secara langsung. Variabel trust berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap behavior intention secara langsung. Variabel trust memediasi positif dan signifikan terhadap hubungan customer value terhadap behavior intention secara tidak langsung. Variabel technology acceptance berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap customer attitude secara langsung. Variabel customer attitude berpengaruh positif tidak signifikan terhadap behavior intention secara langsung. Variabel customer attitude tidak memediasi dan tidak signifikan hubungan technology acceptance terhadap behavior intention secara tidak langsung
This research based on the premise that marketing activities played an im-portant role in increasing the company’s sales volume. Company needed to run markets strategy to achieve sales target which have been set. Therefore, this research aimed to described the positive influence of word of mouth through brand ambassadors, taglines, television advertisements with brand awareness as the mediation that was carried out to consumers of Wardah products in the Lotte Mart Center Point Medan. Population of this study was the number of customers at Wardah Counter in Lotte Mart which cannot be known certaintly. The sample in this study amounted to 100 people. Data collected by questionnaires that were assessed on a Likert scale, each of which was tested and met the requirements of reliability and validity. Data analyzed based on structural equation modeling (SEM) method. The results obtained and at the same time concluded that brand ambassadors, taglines, television advertisements had a positive and significant effect on brand awareness. Brand ambassadors, taglines, television advertisements had a positive and significant effect on positive word of mouth. Brand awareness mediated taglines and advertisements for positive word of mouth. Brand awareness did not mediate brand ambassadors for positive word of mouth.
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