“…Efforts made to maintain entrepreneurial characteristics are determined by internal factors such as locus of control (Renaldo, Sudarno, & Hutahuruk, 2020b), (Liñán et al, 2008), (Lüthje & Franke, 2003), (Shane et al, 2003) is the personality of business owners where they believe they can improve the performance of MSMEs. (Helmawati et al, 2017) said that the performance of MSMEs depends on whether the performance of individual business owners is good or not, one of the factors is locus of control. Every business owner who is ready to take risks shows performance to face the market (Lüthje & Franke, 2003), (Yusof et al, 2007).…”