European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

The main focus of today’s competitive business environment is leadership. The upliftment of our society through generations has gone through the various leadership styles, yet despite the contributions and investment in leadership development, there is a fall in the qualities of leadership. Leaders create empowering organizational cultures that produce long-term successful outcomes. Organizational performance is more likely to be influenced by the leadership styles and culture prevailing in the environment. Hence, this study examines the influence of leadership styles and organizational culture on the performance of the employees in chemical companies.

Literally, the concept of community-based enterprises (CBEs) is an originally practiced by community who are living in a small village located in Oyama, Oita, Japan in 1961 through a program One Village One Product (OVOP). Essentially, the model of CBEs which included the factors of cooperation, sustainability and innovation is enhancing the development of business performance among rural communities. In Malaysia, the program of One District One Industry or known as Satu Daerah Satu Industri (SDSI) is virtually practiced the model of CBEs with the purpose is to alleviate poverty among community in rural area. At present, most of rural entrepreneurs are less practiced the factors of cooperation, innovation, and sustainable enterprises as variables in CBEs model in their business activities. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of CBEs model on business performance among entrepreneurs under SDSI program who are operating their business in East-Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Hence, the method of this study is based on stratified random sampling which covers 230 respondents who are operating their business in the East-Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Furthermore, the results indicate that all of the respondents in this study are significantly accepted the factors in a model of CBEs are contributing to their business performance improvement. Then, this research has proved that CBEs model is an essential platform to be implemented in helping the SDSI entrepreneurs as well as improving their business performance.

This research purpose to analyze the effect of implementation of 5S (Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, and Shitsuke) to business performance in the medical health industry industries. This research uses a quantitative approach with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using smart PLS software. Data collection methods using online questionnaires and snowball sampling technique, the number of respondents to be used are 240 respondents of medical health industry managers in Indonesia . The results of this research conclude that Seiri has a positive and significant effect on the business performance, Seiton has a positive and significant effect on the business performance, Seiso has a positive and significant effect on the business performance, Seiketsu has a positive and significant effect on the business performance, Shitsuke has a positive and significant effect on the business performance. This novelty of this research is build a new model of the effect of applying Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, and Shitsuke to the medical health industry industries in Indonesia.

This study is to examine the effect of pro-growth absorptive strategy and innovation performance, and how innovation performance mediates the effect. The data sources were primary and secondary data obtained from the questionnaire and the Financial Services Authority (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan/OJK) of Indonesia in 2019 related to 57 commercial banks under study. Component-based Partial Least Square (PLS) was used to analyze obtained data through two stages of evaluation model (outer and inner) to test the causal relationship among variables. We found that the pro-growth absorptive strategy has a positive and significant effect on innovation performance and business performance. Innovation performance has a positive and significant effect on business performance. Innovation performance mediates the effect of pro-growth absorptive strategy on business performance, but it is the partial mediating. The main implication of the study is that to maintain and improve business performance, the banks first have to focus on pro-growth absorptive strategy to initiate the implementation of innovation performance.