Overview

Original Research

ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF SEAWEED BUSINESSPEOPLE AND IT’S EFFECT ON THEIR INCOME IN SOUTHEAST SULAWESI COASTAL AREA, INDONESIA

DZULFIKRI AZIS, ABD AZIS MUTHALIB, IRFANDY AZIS, PASRUN ADAM

Vol 17, No 05 ( 2022 )   |  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6555875   |   Author Affiliation: Study Program of Management, Universitas Muhammadyah, Kendari, Indonesia; Departmen of Economics, Universitas Halu Oleo, Kendari, Indonesia; Department of Accounting, Universitas Borneo Tarakan, Tarakan, Indonesia; Department of Mathematics, Universitas Halu Oleo, Kendari   |   Licensing: CC 4.0   |   Pg no: 24-31   |   Published on: 11-05-2022

Abstract

This research is conducted in the Southeast Sulawesi coastal area, aiming at discovering the entrepreneurship of seaweed businesspeople and its effect on income they earn. The research population comprises all businesspeople (fisher/farmers) of seaweed in the Southeast Sulawesi coastal area. Due to time and fund reasons, this research takes samples from several districts representing the existing population characteristics. This research uses both secondary and primary data. The findings show that the entrepreneurship of seaweed farmers in Southeast Sulawesi coastal area is good. Besides, they show that entrepreneurship of seaweed farmers has a positive and significant effect on the revenue or income they get. These mean that the better entrepreneurship of seaweed farmers results in higher revenue

Keywords

Entrepreneurship, income, coastal area, seaweed businesspeople, simple linear regression model