SMEs’ Performance in Indonesia: The Nexus of Notable Ethics-Strategic Behavior Constructions

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Table 1 Descriptive Measure

No.	Construct	Mean	St.Dev.	1	2	3	4
1	LOM	3.798	0.679	1.000
2	LOC	3.881	0.748	0.636	1.000
3	Unethical Perception	3.763	0.727	0.699	1	1.000
4	SMEs Perf	3.888	0.742	0.565	0.524	0.614	1.000

Notes: Adapted Smartpls output.

Figure 1 Conceptual framework.

Table 2 The Outer Model Quality

Construct	Item	Loading	VIF	Alpha	Rho_A	CR	AVE
Locus of Control	LOC1	0.644	1.215	0.676	0.722	0.82	0.606
	LOC2	0.865	1.504
	LOC3	0.810	1.390
Love of Money	Evil1	0.640	1.457	0.872	0.873	0.897	0.466
	Evil2	0.689	1.678
	Ach1	0.745	1.807
	Ach2	0.695	1.730
	Budgt	0.665	1.551
	Freed1	0.606	1.394
	Freed2	0.674	1.610
	Res1	0.718	1.884
	Res2	0.704	1.806
	Res3	0.681	1.562
Unethical Perception	Unethi1	0.795	1.696	0.720	0.735	0.827	0.549
	Unethi2	0.816	1.763
	Unethi3	0.585	1.154
	Unethi4	0.743	1.306
SMEs.Performance	Eff1	0.839	1.684	0.793	0.794	0.879	0.707
	Eff2	0.859	1.768
	Eff3	0.825	1.605

Notes: Adapted Smartpls 3. Output.

Table 3 The HTMT Test of Discriminant Validity

	Construct	1	2	3
1	Locus of Control
2	Love of Money	0.582
3	SMEs. Performance	0.537	0.269
4	Unethical Perception	0.672	0.780	0.389

Notes: A value below 0.9 is expected. Adapted Smartpls output.

Table 4 The Relationships Summary

	Path	Effect	T-value	Hypothesis
H1	Locus of Control➔Love of Money	0.846	13.76**	accepted
H2	Locus of Control➔Unethical Perception	0.754	14.55**	accepted
H3	Locus of Control➔SME Performance	0.152	−1.95	rejected
H4	Love of Money➔Unethical Perception	0.361	6.43**	accepted
H5	Love of Money➔SME Performace	0.187	−2.41**	accepted
H6	Unethical Percepton➔SME Performance	0.171	2.20*	accepted
LOC➔LOM➔Unethical Perception.		0.305	6.65**
LOC➔LOM➔Unethic➔SME Performance		0.181	2.33**
LOM➔Unethic➔SME Performance		0.213	2.76**
R^2 LOM		0.707
R^2 Unethical Perception		0.935
R^2 SMEs’ Performance		0.540

Notes: *p < 0.05; **P < 0.01. Adapted Lisrel Output.

Figure 2 The path revelation.