Resilience ability and small medium enterprise (SME) survival rate in the middle of business environmental fluctuation

Authors

  • Ahmad Syaiful Affa Universitas Pekalongan
  • Muh. Ghafur Wibowo Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga
  • Izra Berakon Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21580/jiemb.2020.2.1.7109

Keywords:

resilience, SME, firm survival, environmental fluctuation

Abstract

Purpose – This study examines the effect of organizational resilience variables on the firm’s survival rate and the moderating role of environmental turbulence variables in the relations of organizational resilience and firm survival.Method – This study uses simple regression to test research hypotheses. Primary data in the form of questionnaires are obtained from Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Java.Result – The analysis shows that organizational resilience variables can improve the firm’s survival. However, this study did not find the moderating role of environmental turbulence in influencing the relationship between organizational resilience variables and firm survival.Implication – This study can help scholars and practitioners to understand more of the mechanism of organizational resilience and its impact on survival on smaller firms.Originality – This study offer the empirical study of firm survival on small-medium enterprise setting in Indonesia.

Author Biographies

Ahmad Syaiful Affa, Universitas Pekalongan

Faculty of Economics

Muh. Ghafur Wibowo, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga

Faculty of Economics and Islamic Business

Izra Berakon, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga

Faculty of Economics and Islamic Business

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Published

2020-12-27

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020)

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