Introducing Iconic Value Co-Creation to Indonesian Small Businesses

Abstract

Abstract-This research examines whether marketing innovativeness (MI) and market responsiveness capability (MRC) to enhance marketing performance (MP) and tries solve the problems of research gap between marketing innovativeness and marketing performance. The SME's handy craft industries in East Borneo, Indonesia used as a sample. The Total data that can be further analysed as much as 207 respondents. Data analysing using Structural Equation Modelling. The result showed that (1) small companies in these market segments based region-centric is likely have better marketing performance when they have the iconic value co-creation (2) the marketing innovativeness and market responsiveness have significant effect on iconic co-creation (3) iconic value co-creation is definitely a mediator in the correlation of marketing innovativeness and market responsiveness