International Journal of Social Science and Business
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021): February

Strategies for Maintaining SMEs Performance During Covid-19 Pandemic

Mohamad Nur Utomo (Universitas Borneo Tarakan)
Iin Ariska (Unknown)
Sulistya Rini Pratiwi (Universitas Borneo Tarakan)
Kaujan Kaujan (Universitas Borneo Tarakan)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Mar 2021

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced the world to experience a global economic crisis.   Economic decline has greatly harmed the business, including Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Small and Medium Enterprises must be able to take strategic steps to maintain their business. The current research is aimed to conduct empirical test on the effect of responsive digital marketing, customer relationship management, and working capital efficiency on SMEs' efforts to maintain performance during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research sample was 57 respondents who represent SMEs of Processed Food. The data analysis technique used SEM-PLS.  Result of research has shown that responsive digital marketing has been proved as helpful to SMEs in maintaining their sale performance during covid-19 pandemic. Besides this result, other finding has shown that main key to maintain customers and sale performance in sustainable manner during covid-19 pandemic is by improving customer satisfaction and building long term relationship with customers. Other finding has indicated that aggressive working capital management will facilitate SMEs to maintain their performance during covid-19 pandemic.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJSSB

Publisher

Subject

Social Sciences

Description

International Journal of Social Science and Business (IJSSB) is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed journal published by Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha (Undiksha), Indonesia. The main objective of IJSSB is to provide an intellectual platform for the international scholars. IJSSB aims to ...