This study aims to examine the importance of e-commerce adoption and entrepreneurial orientation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME)’s performance. A purposive sampling procedure was employed to recruit 150 MSME’s entrepreneurs from three districts of Jambi province, Indonesia. The findings show that e-commerce adoption significantly affects the sustainability of MSME business performance, while entrepreneurship orientation moderates these two variables. The findings could be used to identify and map customers’ preferences of e-commerce adoption and entrepreneurship orientation in order to improve MSME’s performance. Furthermore, these findings could be a source of information for the government in formulating policy concerning the MSME.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of destination attractiveness and image on visiting intention in Indonesia rural tourism. Data were collected from tourist are visiting rural tourism in Kerinci district, Jambi Province (Indonesia). This study used the three variables important factors to develop tourism destination where one of potential object existed, meanwhile destination image from the tourism influenced their interest to visit. The research finding is the significant impact of destination attractiveness through destination image towards development of visiting intention. A main reason destination attractiveness is one of key factors to attract tourist what they want and need. Secondly, an important to create nature tourism achievement perspective between local people and government. Third, also to increase a public awareness of their effort an environment protecting and preserving it as economic value thru rural tourism.

This research analyses the influence of market orientation and competitive advantage on MSMEs’ marketing performance, with competitive advantage as a moderating variable. The research methodology employs path analysis using Smart PLS software version 4.0 and involves 397 MSME owners in Jambi City, Jambi Province, Indonesia. The analysis results indicate that market orientation and competitive advantage significantly influence MSME marketing performance. Additionally, competitive advantage moderates, strengthening the relationship between market orientation and marketing performance. These findings have practical implications for MSME owners, suggesting that focusing on developing market orientation and competitive advantage can enhance their marketing performance. Furthermore, this study contributes to the theoretical understanding of factors influencing MSMEs marketing performance and encourages further research on elements that most impact competitive advantage. It also provides recommendations for policymakers to support enhancing MSME marketing performance through various supportive policies. However, this research has limitations, such as the lack of specific elements of market orientation with significant impacts and a need to better understand the moderation mechanism between market orientation and marketing performance through competitive advantage, which could be subjects of future research.

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the health, economy, and social sectors, and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) worldwide, including in Indonesia. This paper examines the use of social media and e-commerce with an entrepreneurial orientation to enhance the business performance of MSMEs. The study should serve as a model for improving the quality of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in the Jambi Province, in Indonesia. The research employs quantitative and qualitative approaches. The latter method employs in-depth interviews, focus group discussions (FGDs), and observation, whereas the former uses the partial least squares method (PLS). The findings and discussions conclude that social media adoption positively affected the performance and entrepreneurial orientation of MSMEs during the said period. Similarly, e-commerce positively affected the performance and entrepreneurial orientation of MSMEs. Entrepreneurialism and social media adoption had a significant impact on the performance of MSMEs, and due to its entrepreneurial orientation, e-commerce influenced the performance of MSMEs.

This study is two-fold: 1) to explore the emotional aspect of the consumers to buy luxury brand counterfeit products including hedonism motivation and intention to buy; 2) to extend the variables that influences the consumers to purchase fake luxury brand products. The study conducted in Surabaya City and randomly assigned to two experiments demonstrates that hedonism motivation into understanding consumers demanding to purchase luxury brand counterfeit products. The results of the empirical analysis suggest that participants who have high hedonism motivation affect their intentions of purchasing such luxury brand counterfeit products positively. It is also seen that there is high demand for luxury brand counterfeit products in the market.

The study aims to investigated of iGen customer loyalty model that effected by service quality, culture, loyalty program and trust trough customer satisfaction. Following the conceptual model, an inclusive set of hypotheses have been developed. The demanded data were collected from 663 samples using an online survey, and Structural Equation Model with Smart Partial Least Square was applied to test the model and hypotheses. The research found that service quality, culture,loyalty programs, and trust are combined to predict customer loyalty. Trust and loyalty programs exert a more powerful impact on customer loyalty than service quality and culture variables. Customer satisfaction acts as a mediator in the relationship between service quality, loyalty programs, customer trust, and customer loyalty. The results have some critical academic and professional implication for determining the model of consumer loyalty and the internet generation (iGen) in mobile communication services. The study can be used as a part model in formulating a marketing strategy operation that has a competitive advantage in the mobile communication services in Indonesia.