Jurnal Terapan Manajemen dan Bisnis
Vol 4, No 1 (2018): Volume 4 Number 1 (2018)

Competitive Advantage and Marketing Performance (A Descriptive Survey on Oil Palm Plantation Industries in West Kalimantan Province)

Nurmala Nurmala (State Polytechnic of Pontianak, Indonesia)
Saniah Saniah (State Polytechnic of Pontianak, Indonesia)
Sy Novieyana (State Polytechnic of Pontianak, Indonesia)
Utin Nina Hermina (State Polytechnic of Pontianak, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Mar 2018

Abstract

This research analyzes the competitive advantage in order to enhance the marketing performance of oil palm plantation companies in West Kalimantan Province, which aims to: (1) find out the implementation of competitive advantage of the oil palm plantation companies in West Kalimantan Province, (2) find out the achievement of marketing performance of the oil palm plantation companies in West Kalimantan Province, and (3) find out the influence of competitive advantage on the marketing performance of the oil palm plantation companies in West Kalimantan Province. This is a descriptive and verification research that uses a descriptive and explanatory survey on the analysis unit of oil palm plantation companies in West Kalimantan Province. The period of research implementation of two (2) years, divided into two stages; First Stage (2013) and Second Stage (2014). The data are collected using questionnaires as well as interviews and observations. The collected data are further processed using path analysis. The results of the First Stage (2013) research find that only few of the oil palm plantation companies in West Kalimantan Province are able to achieve the marketing performance in high category or above their expected target. This is presumed to be related to the weak competitiveness or competitive advantage of the companies as found in the results of descriptive analysis of this research. In order to understand more of such relatedness, it is necessary to conduct further research of the Second Stage (2014) focusing on investigating the influence of competitive advantage on the marketing performance of oil palm plantation companies in West Kalimantan Province.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JTMB

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Jurnal Terapan Manajemen dan Bisnis (JTMB) - Journal of Applied Management and Business with e-ISSN 2477-5282 and p-ISSN 2599-3127. JTMB is an International Journal, hereinafter abbreviated as JTMB, compiles and publishes various researchers in the field of management especially in the application ...