The growth of Instagram continues, with the majority of its users being millennial consumers who share all aspects of their life on social media. One of the most popular advertising strategies is using celebrity endorsers. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of brand attitude and brand credibility as a mediator of the celebrity endorsement to purchase intention. This study can be categorized as explanatory research and the sampling technique used in this research is purposive sampling. The result of this study showed that celebrity endorsement would not directly affect purchase intention, though celebrity endorsement can enhance brand attitude and brand credibility which in turn increase purchase intention.This study only focused on apparel products. Thus future research may consider using another type of product. Further, future research is expected to use another social media other than Instagram and to consider using another variable as the mediator.

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The urgency of the study is to analyze the effect of perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, and facilitating conditions on the intention to use the TikTok application service in the generation Z group in Indonesia. This research instrument uses an online questionnaire distributed to 210 respondents who are none other than users of the TikTok application from the generation Z group. Next, the researchers tested the hypothesis using a variant-based Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) called Partial Least Square (PLS) and the SmartPLS version of the application. 3.0 as a tool to analyze it. The results of this research conclude that perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment and facilitating conditions have a positive and significant effect on intention to use. The results of this research prove that factors such as perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, and facilitating conditions are important components in the formation of intention to use, so for TikTok application developers this can be taken into consideration for the improvement of TikTok application services in the future. Urgensi penelitian untuk menganalisis pengaruh perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, dan facilitating conditions terhadap intention to use layanan aplikasi TikTok pada kelompok generasi Z di Indonesia. Instrumen penelitian ini menggunakan kuesioner online yang dibagikan kepada 210 respoden yang tidak lain adalah pengguna aplikasi TikTok yang berasal dari kelompok generasi Z. Selanjutnya peneliti menguji hipotesis menggunakan Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) berbasis varian yang disebut Partial Least Square (PLS) dan aplikasi SmartPLS versi 3.0 sebagai alat untuk menganalisisnya. Hasil dari riset ini menyimpulkan faktor perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment dan facilitating conditions berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap intention to use. Hasil riset ini membuktikan bahwa faktor seperti perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, dan facilitating conditions merupakan komponen penting dalam pembentukkan intention to use, sehingga bagi pengembang aplikasi TikTok hal ini dapat dijadikan sebagai bahan pertimbangan guna penyempurnaaan layanan aplikasi TikTok di masa yang akan datang.

The celebrity endorsement strategy is considered as one of the promotional tools attract consumers. However, the effectiveness of these strategies in forming brand equity is still questionable. This study aims to examine the effect of the celebrity endorsement strategy on brand equity of endorsed brands. This study uses brand credibility as a mediating variable because endorser credibility is expected to be transferred to brands that will influence the formation of brand equity. The object of research used in this study is OPPO smartphone consumers, that have been increased significantly within the past 4 years. In addition, it is known that many OPPO brands endorse celebrities to introduce their products. The results of this study indicate that the use of celebrity endorsers is not directly able to form brand equity, but the use of celebrity endorsers causes the formation of brand credibility which is ultimately able to form brand equity.

Entrepreneurship is one of the efforts to advance the economy in Indonesia. However, the phenomenon that occurs in this country is still low the number of entrepreneurs. According to Lutje and Franke's model (LFM), there are internal and external factors in fostering interest in entrepreneurship. Therefore, this research wants to determine how significant the internal and external factors toward the entrepreneurial intention. This research aims to find out and analyze the effect of entrepreneurial education, personality, and self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intention. There are four variables in this research, that is, entrepreneurial education (X1), personality (X2), self-efficacy (X3), and entrepreneurial intention (Y). The method in this research is a quantitative method by distributing an online questionnaire. The sample in this research is Universitas Ciputra students majoring in the 2017 batch of International Business Management who chose start-up guild with 152 respondents. This research indicates that entrepreneurial education and self-efficacy affect positive and significant entrepreneurial intention, whereas personality does not affect entrepreneurial intention. The conclusion is that entrepreneurial education provided by Universitas Ciputra has succeeded in increasing entrepreneurial intention, and self-efficacy is also able to encourage students in entrepreneurship. In contrast, student personality factors do not affect entrepreneurial intention.ABSTRAKBerwirausaha adalah salah satu upaya dalam memajukan ekonomi di Indonesia. Namun fenomena yang terjadi di negeri ini adalah masih rendahnya jumlah wirausahawan di Indonesia. Seorang wirausahawan harus di dorong oleh berbagai faktor agar memiliki minat berwirausaha sehingga dapat menjalankan bisnisnya. Menurut Luthje and Franke’s model (LFM) terdapat faktor internal dan eksternal dalam menumbuhkan minat dalam berwirausaha. Oleh sebab itu penelitian ini ingin mengetahui seberapa besar faktor internal dan eksternal tersebut terhadap minat berwirausaha. Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis pengaruh entrepreneurial education, personality dan self-efficacy terhadap minat berwirausaha. Terdapat 4 variabel dalam penelitian ini yaitu: entrepreneurial education (X1), personality (X2), self-efficacy (X3) dan minat berwirausaha (Y). Metode yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah metode kuantitatif dengan menyebarkan kuisioner secara online. Sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa Universitas Ciputra jurusan international business management angkatan 2017 yang memilih guild start-up dengan jumlah 152 responden. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa entrepreneurial education dan self-efficacy berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap minat berwirausaha sedangkan personality tidak berpengaruh terhadap minat berwirausaha. Kesimpulannya adalah entrepreneurial education yang diberikan Universitas Ciputra telah berhasil dalam meningkatkan minat berwirausaha dan self-efficacy juga mampu mendorong mahasiswa dalam berwirausaha sedangkan faktor personality mahasiswa tidak mempengaruhi dalam penumbuhan minat berwirausaha.