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Lanta Khairunisa S
Study Program International Business Management
Semarang State of Polytechnic
lantaskd@gmail.com
Abstract
Fast-paced technology trends along with the existence of Internet have changed the people behaviour
and their perspective to work effectively. This phenomenon also applied by businesspreneurs with their innovation
and marketing competencies to compete in this 4.0 Industrial era. The emergence of many start-up businesses
indicates that technology has developed along with the Internet users in Indonesia which are increasing every
year. Technology and innovation are essentially considered as a resources and marketing strategy due to achieve
the business goals. This research was conducted based on the gap in business performance outcomes because
marketing capabilities were inconclusive. The sample used in this research was 174 respondent who were the
owners of online business in several areas of Java Region. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analysis was
used for data analysis with assistance AMOS version 22. The research proved that information technology and
innovation enterpreneurial had positive and significant impact directly on marketing capabilities; information
technology and innovation enterpreneurial had positive and significant impact directly on business performance;
meanwhile marketing capabilites had unsignificant effect on business performance.
A. Introduction
Technological advance in Industrial 4.0 era has 2015). Furthermore, it has advanced to a context
became a challenge and an opportunity to every of business knowledge providing various kinds of
businesspreneurs to increase their performances. products in the Internet which is called online
In this era of knowledge-based economy, business. Online Business is commercial
resources and competencies are expected to be activities and processes associated with Internet
the crucial factors for business to survive in Based Activities (Godfried. B Williams, 2007),
dynamic and competitive environment. (Teece, and the payment system supported by Financial
Pisano, Shuen, 1997). The challenges to face Technology which integrated with any kind of
technological changes are not only for human Bank in those area.
resources, but the whole system and work culture
will be directly affected. Over the past three The digital transformation also has positive
decades, the research has shown that impact to millenials generation who became
organizations initiate business entrepreneurship enterpreneur and most of them running small and
to add to their body of knowledge to facilitate medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and identified
increased revenues (Mcgrath, Venkataraman, & to have number of units and number of labor
MacMillan, 1994), improved profitability (Zahra, involved.
1993), enhanced competitiveness (Kuratko, This condition is relevant to the perception of
Covin, & Garrett, 2009), and innovativeness recent knowledge-based economic challenge
(Ferreira et al., 2015) as an important potential issues such as industry 4.0 which emphasizes the
growth driver (Burgelman & Doz, 2013. The technology and telecommunication advantages to
rapidly changing business environment has led to manage business disruptive phenomena. As
increased reliance on ITs and Internet to attain young enterpreneur, they ought to maintain the
and maintain competitiveness, improve innovation to survive in competitiveness and
profitability, and succeed in today's dynamic increase the business outcomes.
market (Shamsuzzoha et al., 2012; Stanimirovic,
Figure 1. Trend of ICT Indicators in Indonesia simplify the businesses goals to reach markets by
2013-2017 providing business information in real-time and
reaching new market.
Emphasizing a holistic and dynamic framework
linking the use of IT, innovation and business
entrepreneurship to a business's competitiveness
level makes this study useful for millenial
enterpreneurs.
In order to obtaining competitive advantages has
turned into one of the main challenges in different
industries. Competitive advantages include a set of
factors or capabilities that always enable the
business to show a better performance from the
Source : BPS/Statistic-Indonesia, National Economic Survey other competitors. In the intention of digital
marketing competition, businesspreneur
Based on Figure 1, it is indicated that the most
sometimes relieve their core business because of
rapid development seen in the use of cellular
distraction by the current trend of society. And it
phones by Indonesian. Percentage of population
effect to their small-medium business which only
using cellular phones was constantly increasing,
focusing to give bonuses or discount as marketing
up to 2017 it reached 59,59 percent. The growth
strategy, besides it only affects short-term business
of cellular phone usage is followed by the growth
performance.
of use of internet in the households reached 57,33
percent. It can be concluded that most of Innovation leads to a change in the processes of
Indonesian population aware of the ITs role in business and it is the main tool for using marketing
their daily life. strategies in accordance with the customers’s and
the market’s interests, which in its turn, results in
Figure 2. Persentation of Internet User categorized
by age 2018 sustainable competitive advantage development.
(Sattari & Mehrabi, 2016). According to Peter F.
Drucker, there is only one liable definition for
business: creating customers. And
entrepreneurship can only be defined based on two
general factors: marketing and innovation.
Innovation is the use of organizational business
properties and qualifications. Innovation processes
lead to the presentation of new products to the
market and creation of value for the businesses
(Kanagal, 2015). Obtaining competitive advantage
is often a function of pioneering in innovative
activities.
The loading factor of each construct has fulfilled Table IV. Direct, Indirect and Total Effects of
the required limit (> 0.5). Based on the reliability Latent Variables
construct value of each latent variable of which its Direct Indirect Total
cut off value is 0.6 – 0.7, it can be concluded that Effect on Endogenous Variable
Effect Effect Effect
the statistic model is reliable and fit to continue to
Effect on Marketing Capabilities
the advanced analytics
H1 : Information Technology 0.458 - 0.458
Table IV. Goodness of Fit Statistic H2 : Innovative Enterpreneurial 0.446 - 0.446
CMIN/ Effect on Business Performance
Chi- Prob ≥ RMSEA GFI ≥ AGFI TLI ≥ CFI≥
df DF ≤ H3 : Information Technology 0.324 0.178 0.502
Square 0.05 ≤ 0.08 0.90 ≥ 0.90 0.95 0.90
2.00
H4 : Innovative Enterpreneurial 0.177 0.173 0.350
54.580 0.062 40 1.364 0.060 0.923 0.850 0.958 0.975 H5 : Marketing Capabilities 0.389 - 0.389
Source : Primary data processed.
The value of goodness of fit statistic based on
table above can be concluded that each value are By implementing Marketing Capability as a
fit above the standard except the AGFI value moderator between Information Technology
which below the standard 0.85 ≤ 0.90. If there is and Business Performance, the total effect value
1 value that is less fit according to the standard it is 0.502. This also happen between Innovative
will be tolerated, because the other value are fulfil Enterpreneurial and Business Performance
the other standard requirements of Goodness of within MC as a moderator give 0.350 as the
Fit (Ferdinand, 2014). result. In addition, although adding the MC
variable as a moderator did not give significant
indirect influence towards business ability to innovate is only owned by creative
performance. people. Each individual have to be motivated
to take a step forward compared to the other.
2. Discussion The emergence of individual spirit at work
This analysis concludes that Hypothesis 1 is generally occurs along with a sense of relief by
accepted. It indicates that information which each individual can deliver innovative
technology considerably influences ideas dealing with solving the problems or
marketing capability. Technology has issues the firm encountered.
important role to obtain the marketing
strategy effective and efficiently. Hypothesis 5 is rejected. It indicates that the
Management Information System also direct relations between marketing
allowed to share data and information from capabilities and business performance has no
any community business which it will helps significant influence. Marketing strategy
any firms or online business to get more sometimes only focused to give bonuses and
knowledge about market research, discount to the customer without considering
information about products, networking, the long-term effects for business
pricing strategy, reach the potential markets performance. The way of promoting product
also always connected in real-time with needs to be upgraded continously in order to
customers faster and easier by social media or help individuals encourage their business
online business platform. This condition will performance.
enable a firm to fulfil their market demand
and build the mutually beneficial H. Conclusion and Implication
relationship. IT contributes to sustainable According to the purpose of this study which
competitive advantage through its interaction is exploring current conceptual model in order
with other resources. The shared IT to mediate a research gap between information
capabilities will enable the flow of marketing technology and business performance also
capability to support the business between innovation and marketing
performance (Gold, Malhotra, & Segars, capabilities, it can be concluded that the
2001) influence of information technology and
innovation enterpreneurial on marketing
Hypothesis 2 is accepted. It indicates that capability is encouraging individual
innovative enterpreneurial considerably motivation and knowledge so it will helps to
influences marketing capabilities. It explains accelerate their performance to explore the
that if a firm optimizes their capability to creative and innovative ideas in order to
innovate new product and have a position to support the business development. The
compete against competitor, it would gain technology-based social media has been
advantages in approach market targets. In recently highlighted as a means of
addition, innovation is used to differentiate communication to broaden business
product against other competitor. The networking. The young enterpreneurs have to
original idea to create something new will take this opportunity to compete and win
attract potential market. against competitors.
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