Antecedents of the Ability to Identify Business Opportunities and Innovations Through Active Information Search Moderation
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201017.128How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- business opportunities, innovation, active information search
- Abstract
The research on Antecedents of the Ability to Identify Business Opportunities and Innovations through Active Information Search Moderation is intended to analyze the linkage of general mental ability, creative thinking, innovation, active information search, and competency to identify business chance. The research population is Small and Medium Industries (SMIs) in East Java. The proportional random sampling technique is used with 3 locations namely, Tulungagung, Malang, and Probolinggo Regency. The consideration, the three regions are the main centers of SMIs in East Java. This research was being conducted by designing an online questionnaire with a test of validity and reliability first. Then, the questionnaire is broadcasted to the owner/manager of the selected respondents randomly. The analysis technique uses Partial Least Square Professional analysis. Based on the results of 110 primary data analysis, it is revealed that creative thinking & entrepreneurial experience effect significantly toward the ability to identify business opportunities. However, the general mental ability does not affect the ability to identify business opportunities. Meanwhile, active information search does not also affect identify business opportunities and does not moderate the effect of those research variables toward the ability to identify business opportunities.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Pudjo Sugito AU - Kamaludin AU - Mohamad Nur Singgih PY - 2020 DA - 2020/10/20 TI - Antecedents of the Ability to Identify Business Opportunities and Innovations Through Active Information Search Moderation BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Community Development (ICCD 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 577 EP - 582 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201017.128 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201017.128 ID - Sugito2020 ER -