Analisis Pengaruh Karakteristik Kewirausahaan Terhadap Kinerja Wirausaha pada Unit Usaha Kecil Menengah (UKM) Agroindustri di Kabupaten Bogor

Abstract

Agroindustry small and medium scale enterprise in agroindustry is part of small scale business in Indonesia which proove its role as an economic development force in Bogor regency. But this small and medium agroindustry enterprise still has some weakness in management of entrepreneurship activity. Therefore, this research aims are : 1) to indentify personal characteristics of small and medium scale agroindustry in Bogor regency, 2) to analyze the influence of entrepreneurial characteristic to performance of small scale agroindustry in Bogor regency. This research utilizes some questionairre in data collection on 121 respondents by using purposive sampling method. This research used mix method approach of qualitative and quantitative. The influence of entrepreunerial characteristics of performance is analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). This research found that most of the entrepreneurship characteristic of small scale agroindustry in Bogor regency agree that they have good self confidence and innovative characteristic in doing their job but this innovative characteristic is still modify from earlier idea and still not to be an invention yet. Most of the respondents are doing their business full of spirit. Entrepreneurship Performance of small scale agroindustry is still not optimum yet, this is caused by some factors such as entrepreneurship characteristic and entrepreneurship competences which are still not developed. The influence of entrepreneurship characteristic and entrepreneurship competence toward Entrepreneurship performance shows that psyhcological characteristic indicates positive and significant influence toward entrepreneurship competence. It refers that Entrepreneurship characteristic is important to build because it determines the success and facilitates to improve entrepreneurship competence. However, entrepreneurship characteristic indicates negative and significant influence toward Entrepreneurship performance. It means while entrepreneurship competence is good, is not automatically improve Entrepreneurship Performance, on the contrary the competence is declining.