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The high rate of unemployment among university graduates has raised concerns. Responding to this, universities feel obliged to encourage and train their students to be able to create their own jobs. Many universities try to improve student entrepreneurial skills by opening entrepreneurship programs in the form of study programs or concentration. This concern does not only occur in Indonesia but also in many universities in other countries. Although the role of entrepreneurship is important for a country’s development, the availability of a large number of entrepreneurs does not guaranty improvement of people’s life or welfare. Increasing competition in business sometimes makes people justify all kinds of business practices. However, if a fair condition for all actors is expected, then university must encourage the creation of moral and ethical business activities. This study intends to know whether (1) need for achievement (nAch), self-efficacy, and instruments readiness influence student entrepreneurship intentions; (2) gender, entrepreneurship experience, and parental background moderate the influence of nAch, self-efficacy, and instrument readiness influence student entrepreneurial intention; and (3) ethical behavior view moderates the influence of nAch, self-efficacy, and instrument readiness on student entrepreneurial intentions. This research observed 315 new students of a university in Indonesia in 2018. The results show that nAch, self-efficacy, and instruments readiness significantly influence entrepreneurial intentions. Gender and parent background moderate the influence of nAch, self-efficacy, and instrument readiness on entrepreneurial intentions, while entrepreneurial experience had no effect. Furthermore, ethical views do not moderate the influence of nAch, self-efficacy, and instrument readiness on entrepreneurial intention.

One of the factors that determines the success of marketing a product is a distribution strategy. Several factors affect distribution such as the number of products, the nature of the products, the size of the area, transportation facilities, communication facilities, company factors, cost factors, and market conditions. The authors realized the absence of research on distribution management on a product such as the 3-kg liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) aimed at reaching the poor in Indonesia. The use of LPG as fuel is considered relatively cleaner because pollution is less when compared to kerosene fuel. This research was conducted in Salatiga, a small town in the province of Central Java, Indonesia. This research applied descriptive statistics in the form of the distribution frequency and crosstabs, as well as multiple regression. This research revealed that the 3-kg LPG distribution is very intensive, spread in almost all places including shops or stalls in both urban and rural areas. The choice of using 3-kg LPG tubes is not only because the price is low and is subsidized by the government but also because of the custom that has been instilled by the government when encouraging people to convert kerosene to LPG.

Entrepreneurship has an important role in the economic development of a country. One element that represents the entrepreneurship quality is its orientation. The orientation of entrepreneurship includes several dimensions which are needed for achievement, an internal locus of control, self-reliance, extroversion, being proactive, risk-taking, and innovation. These dimensions are believed to be able to improve the company’s performance. The purpose of this study is to find out how the entrepreneurship orientation influences the firm performance. This study aims to discover which dimensions of entrepreneurship orientation are the most influential toward the firm performance. The samples were comprised 40 entrepreneurs. The primary data were collected from the respondents by distributing questionnaires to the entrepreneurs of food firms in Salatiga, Indonesia. A multiple regression analysis method was applied in this study. The results show that among the dimensions in entrepreneurship orientation, only the risk-taking and innovative dimensions influence the company’s performance. Innovativeness has a higher effect on firm performance.