• Title/Summary/Keyword: Digital Entrepreneur Competence

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The Role of Competence and Digital Entrepreneurs Career Maturity on Business Performance in Disruption Era

  • Susetyo, DARMANTO;Adi, EKOPRIYONO;Hikmah, HIKMAH;Andalan, TRI RATNAWATI
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.77-89
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: At the end of the pandemic, many digital startups had negative performances. For that, this study aims to analyze the mediating role of entrepreneurial competence and digital entrepreneur career maturity. Seven hypotheses were proposed, namely the effect of entrepreneurship orientation, digital entrepreneurship experience, and digital entrepreneur career maturity on digital entrepreneurial competence, the effect of digital entrepreneurial experience on digital entrepreneurial career maturity, the influence of entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial competence, and digital entrepreneur career maturity on business performance. Research design, data and methodology: The population is digital entrepreneurs in Central Java, Indonesia with a business duration of more than 4 years. The number of samples as many as 184 people were carried out by questionnaire distribution through face-to-face, email, and Google forms. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling was used to test the path coefficient statistics. Results: The results showed that all the hypotheses proposed were accepted. Digital entrepreneurial competencies and digital entrepreneurial career maturity are also proven to have a mediating role. Conclusions: The findings of this study can contribute to the development of digital entrepreneurship research. Practically, the government's role is needed to facilitate the three main elements of digital business: e-commerce, payment methods, and distribution channels.

The Effect of Digital Competencies on Start-up Companies' Sustainability: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of the Entrepreneurial Innovativeness (창업가의 디지털 역량이 창업기업의 지속가능성에 미치는 영향: 창업가 혁신성의 매개효과를 중심으로)

  • Qing, Cheng-Lin;Kim, Yong-Ho
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.405-410
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    • 2022
  • As the non-face-to-face economy is activated by digital innovation, the boundaries of the industry are blurred and new start-up opportunities are occurring due to convergence between industries. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relationship between the founders' digital competence and innovation as an antecedents that affect the substanability of start-up companies. According to the analysis results, the digital competence of the founder has a significant positive (+) effect on the innovation of the founder, and the innovation of the founder has a significant positive (+) effect on the substanability of the entrepreneur. In addition, the innovation of founders has been verified to mediate the relationship between them, and this study is meaningful in that it examines the preceding factors affecting the substanability of start-up companies.