The Moderating Effects of Entrepreneurial Learning on the Relationship between Entrepreneurship Orientation and Business Performance

Abstract

The purpose of this study to know the Influence of Entrepreneurship Orientation on Business Performance with Entrepreneurial Learning as Moderating Variable in Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Southeast Sulawesi (Studies in the Food Industry).Population totaled 109 IKM foods that have met the criteria spread over 4 (four) districts in Southeast Sulawesi province, that consists of: Konsel, Bombana, Kolaka and Kendari.The analysis technique used is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) of AMOS7 and statistical software package SPSS (Statistic Packages for Social Sciences).In this study, researchers tested the validity of the simple correlation technique with SPSS version 12.0 The results of this study showed that the entrepreneurial orientation plays an important role in improving the performance of SMEs.The next entrepreneurial learning plays an important role in improving the performance of SMEs.There is a direct influence on the business performance of learning entrepreneurial SME food but not significant.The results of this study also prove that the entrepreneurial orientation moderated by entrepreneurial learning plays an important role in improving the performance of SMEs.This means that the entrepreneurial orientation will be stronger and not directly served to increase the performance of SMEs when supported with the right entrepreneurial learning in improving the performance of SMEs.This means that we need a learning that is applied so that the benefits of learning to give importance in the improvement of the performance of SMEs.