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Business Location and Success: The Case of Internet Café Business in Indonesia

Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business

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Title Business Location and Success: The Case of Internet Café Business in Indonesia
 
Creator Indarti, Nurul
 
Subject business location; business success; location factor; Internet café; Indonesia
 
Description This research aims to examine the relationship between business location decision and business success. The case is Internet café business in Indonesia. This research is addressed to answer these main questions: (1) what factors do underlie location decision for an Internet café business?; and (2) does location decision determine success of Internet café business? A field research is conducted to answer these questions.Factor analysis applied to 17 location factors reveals five underlying dimensions of business location decision. They are centrality, business environment, business venue, cost, and labor. Based on responses from 93 Internet cafés in three locations (i.e. Yogyakarta, Surabaya, and Lombok), the author finds that favorable location of business is positively related to business success. More specifically, a regression analysis reveals that availability of utilities, proximity to schools/universities and security affect business success in a positive direction, while proximity to highways, being in commercial center affect in a negative direction. The independent variables explain 23 percent of total variance.
 
Publisher Master of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada
 
Date 2004-06-12
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.ugm.ac.id/gamaijb/article/view/5543
 
Source Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business; Vol 6, No 2 (2004): May-August; 171 - 192
2338-7238
1411-1128
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journal.ugm.ac.id/gamaijb/article/view/5543/4514