Authors : Manuel August Todingbua, Siti Haerani and Anwar Ramli
Abstract: Small and medium enterprises has potential and a significant role in efforts to strengthen the national, regional and local economy. Various efforts to develop small and medium enterprises it’s been conducted many times. The objective of the research is to conduct and analyzes the influence of intellectual capital for small and medium enterprises on productivity through managerial skills in Makassar. This type of research conducted through survey research approach, through the quantitative analytical approach that uses statistical tools in answering the research hypothesis. This study in chooses the population for small and medium enterprises or business owners (entrepreneurs) scattered around the city of Makassar. These results indicate that the entrepreneurs of small and medium enterprises in Makassar mostly age 41-50 years is as much as 42.35% and the education level is high school graduates or equivalent. F count value through the formulation, namely: (2/K)/[(1 -R2)/(n-k-1)] where k = number of variables which follows a variable intellectual capital (c1). Effect of intellectual capital variables simultaneously indicated by the calculated F-value of 47.0352. While F table value of 3.042 at = 0.05 and degrees of freedom db1 and db2 = 2 of 167 was obtained from (n-k-1). Thus, simultaneously intellectual capital has an influence indirectly through managerial skills at the 95% confidence level on productivity. Managerial skills t values influence on productivity values obtained t count 3.2678>1.9665 t-table value. This indicates that the variable managerial skills has an influence on productivity. The hypothesis that the managerial skills has a significant impact on the productivity of SMEs in Makassar accepted.
Manuel August Todingbua, Siti Haerani and Anwar Ramli, 2018. The Influence of Intellectual Capital Small and Medium Enterprises Towards Productivity Through Managerial Skills in Makassar. Journal of Economics Theory, 12: 1-7.