| dc.description.abstract | The classical problems dealing with raw materials supply, technology applied, and
business management still remain to happen in the business performance of batik
industries. In order to overcome those problems, the batik entrepreneurs should employ a
strategy which refers to self-propelled improvement of individual, organizational, and
collective behaviors in the batik industry towards development of the quality of its
products, services, and markets in an independent way, and also in building a strong
network of cooperation and coordination among the local batik communities themselves
and with other related agencies. The purpose of this paper is to study the functioning of
self-development strategy for empowering the batik industry cluster, their benefits and
costs, and obstacles they face in the development process. This study also determines the
extent of business performance of batik enterprises in Tuban District. The population of
the study was all batik industry business units of the selected areas. The respondents were
determined by snowball sampling method in every area consisting of 84 businessmen in
the batik industry. Aside from the secondary data, the primary data was collected by
ethnographic (unstructured and semi-structured interviews, and direct observation) and
participatory methods (key informant interviews). The relevant result is that this strategy
therefore, is a key to promoting individual, organizational, collective capabilities, strong
network, cooperation and coordination within the local batik industry communities
themselves and together with other related agencies. The study successfully identified the
personal attributes (socio-demographic and socio-psychological characteristics) of the
batik entrepreneurs, determined the benefit and cost of the development strategy, as well
as identified the obstacles encountered in the development process. Business performance
was also carefully investigated along with the factors that possibly affect it. | en_US |
