This paper aims to explore how entrepreneurship education determines students' entrepreneurial intentions as well as examine the emerging role of the entrepreneurial mindset in supporting this relationship. A quantitative method was applied to gain a better understanding of the relationship between variables utilizing Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) based variance Partial Least Square (PLS). The participants of this study were recruited from several vocational students in East Java of Indonesia by using an online survey. The findings indicate that entrepreneurship education positively influences both students' entrepreneurial intentions and an entrepreneurial mindset. It also reveals a robust correlation between entrepreneurship mindset and students' entrepreneurship intentions. Lastly, this study's finding shows that the entrepreneurship mindset has successfully mediated the relationship between entrepreneurial education and students' entrepreneurial intention.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate governance on ESG performance in large publicly listed firms in Indonesia from 2016 to 2023. The study adopts both stakeholder-agency theory and resource dependency theory to explore the relationship between sustainability assurance, board governance characteristics, and the extent of ESG performance. Fixed effects regression controlling both industry and year fixed effects is used to measure the relationship between sustainability assurance, corporate governance characteristics, and ESG performance. We find a positive significant relationship between assurance sustainability reports and ESG performance. Additionally, we also document a positive association between sustainability committees and ESG performance. Adopting the Big Four auditors as a moderating variable, we find a positive relationship between gender-diverse boards and firms audited by the Big Four auditors and sustainability performance. This result suggests that firms with gender-diverse boards audited by the Big Four auditors enhance sustainability performance. Additional robustness tests using GMM estimation, conducted to address endogeneity concerns, corroborated the main test results.

The important role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the economy requires SMEs to achieve business sustainability. The sustainability of SMEs can be achieved with assistance and guidance from external parties, both government and private, through corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. This study investigates the mediating role of competitive advantage in the relationship between CSR programs and sustainability. The population of this study comprised SME owners who participated in CSR assistance programs offered by either state-owned enterprises or the private sector. This study collected quantitative data from 110 SMEs in East Java, located in the Malang, Probolinggo, Mojokerto, Kediri, and Blitar regions. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), the result was that companies or governments that provide CSR program assistance to SMEs contribute to an increase in SMEs' competitive advantage and business sustainability. Competitive advantage mediates the relationship between CSR programs and SME business sustainability. For companies or governments, providing CSR programs to SMEs requires mentoring models and CSR programs that focus on providing training to increase product innovation by creating unique products not easily imitated by competitors while maintaining competitive quality and prices. In addition, there is a need for training to increase SMEs’ understanding of compliance with legal standards in business management, the importance of establishing a comprehensive code of ethics in business management, and the role of SMEs’ contribution to charity so that business sustainability can continue to be pursued.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between managerial capabilities on MSMEs business sustainability, the relationship between financial literacy on MSMEs business sustainability, the relationship between financial literacy on MSMEs business sustainability. Method: This research uses quantitative research methods. Quantitative research methods are used because in this study, the relationship between the variables to be studied has a causal relationship, to examine certain populations and samples, and aims to test the established hypotheses. The measurement scale in this study uses a Likert scale of 1 to 5 with categories namely strongly disagree, disagree, disagree, agree and strongly agree. With data collection techniques using online questionnaires. The analysis technique uses SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) with SmartPLS 3.0 software tools. Respondents in this study were 876 MSME owners who were determined by simple random sampling. Data analysis techniques use variable calculations based on variable operational definitions. Result: From the analysis that has been done, it can be concluded as follows. Managerial ability partially has a significant effect on the Defensive Strategy of MSMEs actors, Financial Literacy partially has a significant effect on the Survival Strategy of MSMEs actors. Partially, Risk Mitigation has a significant effect on the Survival Strategy for MSMEs actors Implication: To encourage an increase in MSMEs Business Sustainability, MSMEs management must encourage an increase in managerial capabilities, financial literacy, and risk mitigation variables. the higher the managerial ability, the more suitable the competitive strategy that is formulated and implemented in SMEs. Managers are the main actors of the company, thus the better the managerial ability of a manager, the company's performance will increase.