The use of technology in business in the era of 4.0 is a difficult task for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) due to lack of resources and other market problems. To attract customers to buy a product, the marketing of a product is usually influenced by various factors, such as price, product quality, and brand. In this study, the researchers analyzed the impact of price, product quality, and product brand on customer’s buying interest. This research is a case study conducted in Fahmi Mandiri SMEs aiming to increase the income. The method used is multiple regression analysis and the data is collected through questionnaires distributed to the customers. The results show that the biggest partial correlation influencing customer buying interest are price of a product and product brand. The quality of a product does not affect customers' buying interest significantly, because consumers will trust the quality of a product when the product brand is known and has the right price.

This article has been retracted in Management Science Letters 2020 10(17),2.

This paper investigates the changes in stock market returns before and after the announcement of a sample of three instalments, or ‘volumes’, (I, X, and XVI) of the Indonesian government’s Eco-nomic Policy Package (EPP), between 2015 and 2017. It tracks Abnormal Return (AR) and Cumulative Abnormal Return (CAR) on the Composite Stock Price Index (JCI) and ten sectorial indices of the Indonesia Stock Exchange. By testing for the direction and significance of differences in AR and CAR, the paper aims to clarify whether those announcements provided sufficient informational content to sway prices. The study finds that the impact of the policy announcements was recorded primarily by individual sectors, but did not elicit a significant market-wide response. Moreover, the majority of economic sectors consistently reacted negatively. This shows that, overall, capital markets did not feel those government policies contain sufficient measures to remove obstacles to busi-ness activity.

The prediction of stock prices movement has always been a concern for investors when they make investment decisions. Most of stock markets all over the world provide data on price to earnings ra-tio (P/E) and price to book value ratio (P/B). How reliable these data are for investment is not clear-ly known. This study examines how accounting data of P/E and P/B can predict the stock prices. The study selects data from 218 firms listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange as sample over the peri-od 2007-2016 and they are analyzed by multiple linear regression. The study shows that price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) had no effect on stock prices for each year and also in all periods, but price to book value ratio (P/B ratio) had positive effect on stock prices, which means that the higher the P/B ratio, the more expensive the stock price. The decision of firm management is to maximize price to book value ratio (P/B ratio) which means to maximize the shareholders’ wealth. However, on the contrary, investors always seek the lower P/B ratio to get the desirable gains. Nevertheless, since the statistical analyses show there are many other variables affecting the stock prices movement, the investors should not rely only on P/B ratio for making investment decisions.

Industry 4.0 drives enterprises to transform their capabilities especially in innovation and their capabilities to adapt with dynamic market. The capabilities can be fostered when the leader is oriented towards digital technology and market orientation. The role of digital leadership has gained attention for studies to develop innovation and dynamic capabilities based on market orientation. Studies have been conducted on dynamic capabilities with focus on the strategy, management and economic literature including the understanding of its driving key to success. However, the study on the role of digital leadership on the development of dynamic capability based on innovation capability and market orientation has not been intensively discussed. It is argued that the development of dynamic capability and innovation capability is strongly driven from a combination of digital leadership and market orientation. Data in this study is taken from a survey conducted on 88 Indonesian telecom-munication firms as a unit for analyses. The results show that digital leadership had a strong direct and indirect relationship with dynamic capability, however the strong path in developing capability is determined from the development of innovation capability that is driven from digital leadership based on market orientation. The finding reinforces the role of digital leadership as a critical influence on development of dynamic capability. Future studies are suggested to extend the research by exploring the research model to elaborate more on the impact of collaboration, leveraging a larger sample size and better statistical tools. A longitudinal study on the companies that implement the transformation based on dynamic capabilities is also recommended for future studies.

This research aims to analyze the relationship between interpersonal intelligence and prosocial behavior among students of elementary school. As a case study, it takes 156 students of an elementary school in Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia as participants aged 10-12 years old. The result shows positive and significant correlation between interpersonal intelligence and prosocial behavior among participants, as shown by coefficient of correlation r=0.722 and p=0.000. Three aspects of interpersonal intelligence also show significant correlation with prosocial behavior. The finding suggests the need of school endeavor to improve environment that enhance interpersonal intelligence and prosocial behavior. Furthermore, the finding also suggests the importance of counseling teachers to develop students’ interpersonal relation skills to enhance their interpersonal intelligence. As interpersonal intelligence was enhanced in school environment, prosocial behavior is expected to be improved in students’ daily life.

The objective of this study is to examine the impact of client, consultant and contractor related fac-tors on mismanagement in public and private contracts in the region of Indonesia. A structural questionnaire is developed for the selected items after detailed investigation of present literature. A final sample of 137 respondents associated with various contracts in the region of Indonesia is collected with demographic details and regression analysis. It is observed that factors like lack of strategy, failure to compile the documentary requirements, poor planning, delay in decision making, financial issues, late payments, difficulty in getting work permits and lack of management expertise are core issues, creating mismanagement in public and private contracts. In consultant related factors, role of inexperienced consultant, poor planning, late of instructions from architects, poor contract management, and poor-quality assurance are the key determinants of mismanagement in contracts. While contractor related factors like poor planning and scheduling, late or improper submission of con-tract, inadequate site supervision and inspection, poor construction methods, weak leadership, and lack of communication between the parties are the key indicators of mismanagement in contracts. As per significance, this study is found to be a reasonable addition in the present literature from the context of contract management. Originality of the study covers the significant findings for the policy makers in the field of public and private contracts. Study can be reworked in future through better sampling, and addition of more factors related to materials, equipment and labor causing for the poor delivery of the contracts.

The basic principle of management is to manage resources of the organization effectively and efficiently to achieve the organization’s objectives. The function of management includes: planning, organizing, placing people, directing and controlling different tasks. The four important cases in improving education quality are, first, national policies which covers curriculum, national exam, teach-er’s distribution and recruitment. Second, headmaster’s leadership which covers financial transpar-ency, the ecosystem relationships which run in school between teachers and headmaster, parents with teacher, or teacher with students and all existing educational staffs in educational units. Third, infrastructure which covers facilities and infrastructures associated with class, laboratory, or infor-mational technology and communication. Fourth, fun learning process, innovation and creativity, potential, skill and teacher’s ability. The study provides an empirical view for the relationship be-tween educational learning and leadership management, learning teaching, school climate and overall quality of education in the region of Indonesia. Both CFA and structural equation modelling tech-niques are applied for the causal effects of the selected explanatory variables on quality of education. Findings of the study indicate that educational learning and leadership management, learning teach-ing and school climate influence on quality of education, positively.

Nowadays, Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play essential role for the development of the economy. Thus, any improvement on the performance of such organizations may contribute significantly on overall economy. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of business sphere on competitive advantage and business performance. In addition we study the effects of the competitive advantage on business performance of SMEs through a quantitative approach and by considering 50 businessman SMEs built by Surabaya Trade Service Department. Data collection in this study was prepared by distributing questionnaires. Data analysis technique used in this research is SEM analysis with PLS. The results indicate that: (1) business sphere influences on business performance of SMEs under the Surabaya Trade Service Department; (2) business sphere has substantial influence on competitive advantage of SMEs in the Surabaya Trade Service Department; (3) competitive advantage sphere has substantial influence to business performance of SMEs built by Surabaya Trade Service Department.

This study aims at analysing the effect of the organizational communication climate and working enthusiasm on employee performance both directly and through employee job satisfaction at Economics Faculty in Private Islamic Universities in Makassar. The sampling technique used in this study was purposive sampling. Thus, the samples in this study were all employees who work at Economics Faculty in Private Islamic Universities in Makassar in which the total samples were 100 people. The data were analysed using multiple linear regression and path analysis. The study found that the organizational communication climate and work enthusiasm affect work satisfaction at Economics Faculty in Private Islamic Universities in Makassar. It is also found that organizational communication climate and work enthusiasm affect employee performance at Economics Faculty in Private Islamic Universities in Makassar. Furthermore, it is shown that job satisfaction affects employee performance at Economics Faculty in Private Islamic Universities in Makassar.

ASEAN is one of the regions with great potential of the world economic power. Countries included in the association of Southeast Asian countries are predicted to show strong economic growth. There are many factors for the development of the ASEAN region such as insurance industry. The Southeast Asian insurance industry, with a stable and long-term financial asset commitment, could play a bigger role in supporting the region's overall economic growth. This study aims at investigating the contribution of the insurance sector measured by three parameters; namely insurance penetration, insurance density and premium volume. The research was conducted to investigate the factors which are related to the insurance industry and could affect the economic growth of 6 countries; namely Singapore, Malaysia, Philippine, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia, in ASEAN area over the period 2005-2015 using a fixed effect model. The result revealed that premium volume of life insurance and non-life insurance, respectively, maintained positive and significant effects on the econom-ic growth. Life insurance penetration and density also give significant effects on economic growth while non-life insurance penetration and density are not statistically significant for the economic growth.