This study was commenced in order to examine the impact that both perceived usefulness and perceived ease-of-use had toward consumers’ loyalty within the computer industry in China, either directly or indirectly through satisfaction and trust. This current study utilized the survey method; questionnaires were selected as the instrument which would be used to collect all of the data from the respondents. All of the questionnaires were electronically distributed through an online survey site to a total of 400 respondents, who originated from, or were living in, five cities in China. After gathering and assessing all of the collected data, a total of 346 items of data were deemed usable, thus enabling these sets of data to be further analyzed by this study. All of these data were further analyzed using the partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method using SmartPLS 3.3.2 software. Based on the results obtained through the data’s analyses, the authors would like to conclude that both perceived usefulness and perceived ease-of-use had a positive and significant impact on customer satisfaction, trust and customer loyalty within China’s computer industry. Furthermore, in this study, both customer satisfaction and trust have been found to positively mediate the impact of perceived usefulness and perceived ease-of-use toward customer loyalty; trust serves as a better mediator compared to satisfaction. Meanwhile, this study contributed to the expansion and the enrichment of the literature in the field of marketing by thoroughly examining the implementation of the technology acceptance model (TAM) in predicting customer loyalty within China’s computer industry.

The purpose of this study is to examine and understand the effect of website design quality and service quality toward consumers’ repurchase intention in the Asian, European, American, and Australian e-commerce industry. This research implemented survey method, in which questionnaires were chosen as instruments for data collection. A total of 1000 questionnaires were electronically distributed to the respondents across four continents, in which a total of 869 were deemed usable. Out of 869 questionnaires, a total of 200 questionnaires collected from respondents living in the Asian continent, 189 questionnaires collected from respondents living in the American continent, 243 questionnaires collected from respondents living in the European continent, and 237 questionnaires collected from respondents living in the Australian continent. This research implemented PLS-SEM method to analyze and generate findings from the data. Based on the results generated from the analysis of the data, it could be concluded that in the Asian, Australian, and European continents, service quality played a more important and significant role in affecting consumers’ repurchase intention in the e-commerce industry compared to website design quality. In contrast, the results generated in this research also concluded that website design quality played a more important role in affecting consumers’ repurchase intention in the American e-commerce industry. Furthermore, customer satisfaction mediated the relationship between website design quality and service quality toward consumers’ repurchase intention in the Asian, Australian, European, and American e-commerce industry.

There is a need in the community which is realized by volunteering the community to pay some costs to get the quality education offered, also supported by government regulations that encourage the existence of international schools in each region, as well as the influence of globalization. The existence of these international standard schools using Cambridge or International Baccalaureate curriculum has brought big changes in managing schools as an educational institution. Education management is a necessity for schools today to be able to manage schools that focus on customer desires and satisfaction, without overriding the main values in education. Therefore, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is employed to spot the arena of this study; Customer Expectation and Customer Perceived Quality mediated by Customer Perceived Value will affect customer satisfaction. The model is expected to provide the model for education institutions how to manage customer satisfaction in-line with delivering quality education.

The smartphone industry has grown rapidly in recent years, and one of the market leaders is Samsung. Over the past few years, Samsung has been remaining as the top brand in the smartphone industry worldwide and has maintained its market share in the world. However, this is not the case in Indonesia. In recent years, Samsung in Indonesia has also experienced a dwindling market share, that is why it is interesting to conduct in-depth research on its consumer purchase intentions. Therefore, this study utilizes Country Image, Product Quality, Brand Familiarity as independent variables to explore their influence on Samsung smartphone purchase intentions to examine the nature of Samsung’s consumer purchase intentions and then to provide some recommendations on how Samsung can increase its market share in Indonesia. This study used primary data by using convenience sampling. The data analysis used Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) through SmartPLS and the results showed that Product Quality, Brand Familiarity, and Social Influence had a positive and significant effect on Purchase Intention, while the State Image proved insignificant. Abstrak: Industri smartphone telah berkembang pesat dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, dan salah satu pemimpin pasarnya adalah Samsung. Selama beberapa tahun terakhir, Samsung telah bertahan sebagai merek teratas dalam industri ponsel pintar di seluruh dunia dan telah mempertahankan pangsa pasarnya di dunia. Namun tidak demikian halnya di Indonesia. Dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, Samsung di Indonesia juga mengalami pangsa pasar yang semakin menipis, oleh karena itu menarik untuk dilakukan penelitian mendalam tentang niat beli konsumennya. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini memanfaatkan Country Image, Kualitas Produk, Brand Familiarity sebagai variabel independen untuk mengeksplorasi pengaruhnya terhadap niat beli smartphone Samsung untuk mengetahui sifat niat beli konsumen Samsung dan kemudian memberikan beberapa rekomendasi bagaimana Samsung dapat meningkatkan pangsa pasarnya di Indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan data primer dengan menggunakan convenience sampling. Analisis data menggunakan Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) melalui SmartPLS dan hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Kualitas Produk, Keakraban Merek, dan Pengaruh Sosial berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap Niat Membeli, sedangkan Citra Negara terbukti tidak signifikan  Keywords:  International business, global marketing, consumer behaviour, purchase intention, country image, product quality, brand familiarity, social influence Kata Kunci:    Bisnis internasional, pemasaran global, perilaku konsumen, niat membeli, citra negara, kualitas produk, keakraban merek, pengaruh sosial

Abstract- The global push to accelerate the electric car industry is expected to increase world demand for nickel until 2030. Indonesia is the largest producer, with a Nickel production of 800,000 tons, or 30% of the world supply. The Indonesian government then responded to this global situation by issuing a law banning the export of 1.8% low-grade Nickel, in line with its policy of accelerating the national Strategic Project (PSN), focusing on nickel downstream (besides downstream other minerals and coal) to increase added value to strengthen the competitiveness of the national nickel industry on an international scale, suppressing imports and also creating energy independence. In an effort to achieve this downstream, it is necessary to carry out a macroeconomic analysis of the various opportunities and challenges faced in developing the Indonesian Nickel industry. This external analysis is the analysis Demography factors, Economy, Political, Ecological, and Social Technology (DEPEST). The results show: 1) Southeast Sulawesi has a demographic bonus with a low unemployment rate and the potential to be trained in trade and mining. 2) In terms of economic factors, Southeast Sulawesi Nickel has quite large reserves, and the LQ showed that the mining and quarrying sector has the highest comparative advantage compared to other basic sectors. 3) So far government regulations are accelerating the provision of added value to domestically manufactured products by relying on domestic raw materials. 4) The impact on socio-culture is to increase the community’s welfare around the mining area as long as it is carried out while maintaining environmental sustainability. 5) There is a promising technology for downstream Nickel. Keywords: Nickel Industry; Smelter; DEPEST Analysis