The concept of sustainable development is inseparable in the business world. In that term, there are three aspects, namely economic, social, and environmental that must be balanced with each other. It is hoped that this concept is needed to know by entrepreneurs in starting their businesses. After that, this business is expected to become a sustainable business that can survive to face the challenges. Mediation input is given in the form of entrepreneurial orientation which can accelerate the creation of sustainable businesses, thus there is a correlation between sustainable development and entrepreneurs. In addition, the entrepreneur variables correlate to entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial orientation has a relationship with sustainable business. In turn, sustainable development, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial orientation, and sustainable business also deserve further study. This paper examines the relationship between the four variables to the SMEs in Jakarta. Where we want to know how the relationship between the variables of sustainable development with entrepreneurs that aim to achieve sustainable business by mediating entrepreneurial orientation. It also examines the direct comparison between entrepreneurs and sustainable businesses and the relationship between the two variables mediated by entrepreneurial orientation variables. The research data was taken from business operators in Jakarta totaling 245 out of 49 dimensions of the four variables. Data processing is done by structural equation modeling (SEM) through the Lisrel version 8.7 program. Then the calculation results are analyzed based on statistical provisions in getting indications of the relationship between variables. It is found that there is a positive relationship between sustainable development and entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs also have a positive relationship with entrepreneurial orientation, and entrepreneurial orientation has a positive relationship with sustainable business. It turns out that the relationship between entrepreneurs who have gained an understanding of the concept of sustainable development and sustainable business is a significant positive compared to mediating entrepreneurial orientation which remains positive but not significant through the Sobel test that has conducted.

This research aims to determine the work-life balance of female managers at the group and organizational levels of banks using the explanatory relational method. Data were obtained from 267 low/middle level female managers of SOE banks in Indonesia with the quantitative analysis, and structural equation models (SEM) was used to test the research hypotheses. The results showed that work-life balance had a positive and indirect effect on the relationships, communication skills and leadership styles, of female managers at the organizational and group levels.

Empowerment and experience help and support organizations in enhancing their profitability, productivity and performance. This research aimed to examine the impact of empowerment and minimum experiences on the organizational performance. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was applied for analysis purpose. 237 questionnaires were collected from the Saudi workers who participated in the research. The research recommended that organizations must start encouraging their managers to implement more participative leadership styles such as providing subordinates with greater opportunities to get involved in decision-making and to adapt their ideas.

This study analyzes the effect of customer relationship quality, entrepreneurial social competence and customer sensing on market penetration capabilities in the SME sector. In addition, by taking market penetration capability as a mediating variable, this study examines the effect of the independent variable on marketing performance in SMEs. The study results highlight several important findings regarding the competitive advantage of SMEs and the formation of networks and highlight the importance of network formation in SMEs, where the development of networks or partnerships is one of the critical success factors for improving SME performance. The originality of this study lies in examining the strategic influence of customer relationship management dimensions in an entrepreneurial outlook in the small and medium business sector on improving organizational capabilities to penetrate the market for the purpose of improving marketing performance. Practically, this finding is useful to increase the interaction of SMEs with customers during certain stages in the product development process to get positive added value on product success and the formation of competencies that encourage businesses to enter the market based on social familiarity, feature-oriented attractiveness, and interwoven customer emotional loyalty.

Idiosyncratic deals have been used by many organizations to achieve desirable employees’ behavior and work-related positive outcomes. Drawing upon the social exchange theory, this study aims at investigating the connections between idiosyncratic deals and work engagement. Besides, this study also scrutinizes the mediating role of psychological empowerment in the relationship between idiosyncratic deals and work engagement. This study applied smart PLS-SEM v.3.2 for the data analysis to ascertain the relationship between the study variables. Using an online survey, data are collected from 310 academicians working in the public higher education institutions of Pakistan. The finding of this study shows a significant positive relationship between idiosyncratic deals and work engagement. Furthermore, finding of the study also divulges that psychological empowerment mediates the relationship between idiosyncratic deals and work engagement. Hence the management and the policy makers in the public higher education institutions should focus on the provision of idiosyncratic deals based on the personal and professional needs of academicians to strengthen their feeling of psychological empowerment which subsequently results in fostering their engagement at work.

The pandemic of the coronavirus known as ‘COVID-19’ has spread rapidly across the globe, resulting in a worldwide economic recession. Although global efforts are in place to combat the virus, it continues to spread on a massive scale. This is not just a medical crisis; rather, it is a business crisis as well. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to develop a research scale that could be used to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on business. We adopted a scale variables approach that is generated from topics covered in the papers of leading academic business journals to form the basis of our analysis. We exposed the scale to qualitative and quantitative testing and concluded that it is reliable for research on the negative effects of COVID-19 on enterprises. The scale was used to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 on businesses in two countries, namely Serbia and Kuwait, to represent two different continents. The results of this research indicate that the influence of this coronavirus is equally devastating in both countries, Kuwait with its otherwise good economic conditions and Serbia with relatively poor ones. The findings of the research are beneficial for both academics in producing quality output papers, as well as their support to managers in various business industries in their fight against coronavirus to keep their businesses sustainable.

This study aims to analyze individual and organizational factors from the perspective of gender amongst millennial employees in creative industries. The populations in this study are employees in the creative industries with sample limited to employee from millennial generation category. Based on these considerations, the sample taken in this study were 202 respondents. The research proves that exogenous variables (ethical behavior of leaders and internal communication) have positive and significant effects for endogenous variables (psychological capital, work attachment, meaning of work) on employees (millennial generation) of the creative industry sector. The results also showed that psychological capital was only determined by the ethical behavior of the leadership, whereas psychological capital was the most dominant variable in determining work engagement. Meanwhile, internal communication provides the most dominant influence on the meaning of work. This research is able to contribute by generating novelty research in the form of literature studies using gender roles. From the gender point of view, millennial employees who are female have the highest value for internal communication, work engagement and meaning of work. Meanwhile, the highest value of psychological capital is dominated by male respondents. Ethical behavior of leaders viewed from a gender perspective has the same value between male and female respondents.

The field of strategic innovation (SI) has been garnering increasing research interest, with studies adopting and employing varying definitions and creating different methods for its measurement. Despite the innumerable studies, few have addressed manufacturing and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), particularly those focused on Middle East countries, in light of the relationship between structural capital (SC) and SI. Hence, the present work is primarily aimed at examining the role of SC in SI and the performance of manufacturing SMEs. It employed the survey method to gather data from the study sample of 284 Yemeni manufacturing SMEs and the hypotheses were tested using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). On the basis of the results, there is a significant influence of SI on performance; SC also has a moderating role of on this relationship. The present study is expected to contribute to the creation of a measurement system for SI in SMEs, stressing each component of SI in enhancing the performance of such enterprises.

The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze the influence of personality, motivation, job satisfaction, employee engagement, organizational commitment on employee performance in PT. PLN (Persero) The Power Generation Unit of Mahakam, Indonesia. There were 167 employees participated in this survey using a saturated sample in which all populations were sampled. The re-search model used in this study was a structural model to test the hypotheses proposed by the SEM (Structure Equation Modeling) analysis technique using the Warp PLS 6.0 program approach. The results show that personality and job satisfaction had a positive and significant effect on employee engagement. Motivation was not significant to employee engagement. Personality and motivation were not significant to organizational commitment. Job satisfaction had positive and significant effect on organizational commitment. Personality, motivation, and job satisfaction did not have significant effect on employee performance. Employee engagement was positive and significant for organizational commitment. Employee engagement and organizational commitment were positive and significant for employee performance.

This study examines effect of transformational leadership (TFL) on work motivation in Vietnam, through the mediating role of employee emotions (expressed by the effect of leader on employee satisfaction). This paper considers employee motivation using independent and intermediate variables characterizing individuals and organizations. In order to find relationships between the select-ed variables, and to evaluate the role of the mediator, a technique of Explore Factor Analysis method (EFA) is sued with primary data collected from 286 among 317 employees currently working using regression models and 500 bootstrapping samples in order to quantify the role of the mediator. For the purposes of the analysis, the structural equation modelling (SEM) method was efficiency applied. The quantitative research was conducted in SMEs selected by stratification technique. In both cases the outcomes are significantly determined by employees’ motivation. This practical model demonstrates an influential relationship between TFL and work motivation. The study provides proof that the relations of transformational leadership have been shown to have a direct indirect influence on employee motivation, in which the mediator is the satisfaction which has direct impact on work motivation. The results of the research show strong evidences for policy makers and enterprises for management at SMEs as well as it contributes to literature review of behavior organization. Findings also strongly show implied solutions which would support for Vietnamese SMEs to improve stable job performance.