How Entrepreneurial Competencies Can Effect Business Performance

. The ability to build a business is one of the challenges as well as competencies that must be possessed by entrepreneurs today. This study explains what entrepreneurial competencies must be possessed by an entrepreneur to have good business performance. Because the ultimate goal of running a business is to achieve business success. This study aims to obtain 1) the effect of knowledge on business performance, 2) the effect of skills on business performance, 3) individual abilities on business performance in 2013 business education alumni by using a quantitative research approach. The results of the study found that the description of Entrepreneurial Competence for the 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI was in the fairly good category, the Business Performance Description for the 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI was in the medium category, and the magnitude of the influence of the Entrepreneurial Competency dimension on Business Success partially, namely, the Knowledge dimension. not complex, so it will affect Business Performance. Meanwhile, the Individual Ability dimension does not affect Business Performance. Meanwhile, simultaneously (overall) there is a positive and significant influence. Findings of this study is Entrepreneurial competencies can effect to business performance.


INTRODUCTION
Entrepreneurial tends to be considered an attractive choice and can create an individual to be independent in facing difficulties today (Eliyana, Rohmatul, et al., 2020). Realizing selfactualization is one way to keep the entrepreneurial activity going. Concerning entrepreneurial, one must know that usefulness in business appears when it is in a state of Success, and to make it happen requires predictors (elements that can help predict the likelihood of Success in entrepreneurship) and indicators (i.e., parts that show Success) in Business Performance  because Business Performance will be able to measure how a business that is carried out can be said to be successful. In the next stage, it is hoped that entrepreneurs can achieve their goals by gaining a competitive advantage and achieving sustainable business growth.
Source: Data Processing 2019 Based on Figure 1, it is known that the business performance condition of the 2013 business education alumni is not good because there is still a lack of understanding of how the stage of business growth is, how to increase sales, and debt ownership is still high. So this shows that the business performance of the 2013 business management education alumni is still not optimal.
Entrepreneurial in this study, namely the SMEs in the UPI Business Management Education class of 2013, for the sample is determined based on case studies. Entrepreneurial competence possessed by a person will be able to identify how the knowledge, skills, and individual abilities he has so that it becomes capital. Where is an important factor that affects business success not only in the early stages but also in the future, and this becomes an incentive to encourage the creation of entrepreneurial wealth with high business performance results (Yani et al., 2020). Thus, this paper aims to examine in depth the influence of entrepreneurial competence on business performance.
Competence is a concept of work-related abilities that refers to a particular field owned by a person (Al Mamun & Fazal, 2018). It is also translated as the ability needed by someone to carry out the tasks they have. Cubico (Cubico & Favretto, n.d.) in his research, states that entrepreneurial competence is defined as a particular group of competencies that is significant for successful entrepreneurial practice, which includes specific Knowledge, motives, self-image, social roles, traits and skills. Entrepreneurial competence is defined as a higher-level feature that represents the capacity of an entrepreneur to succeed in the workplace. The skills of an entrepreneur can also be recognized as a critical competency to promote the ability to work, which includes self-learning, personal initiative and business development (Ferreras-garcia & Hernández-lara, 2019). In addition, in another study conducted by S Sajilan (Sajilan & Adeyinka-ojo, 2016)entrepreneurial competence can also contribute to profitability.
In addition, in their research, that entrepreneurial competence will lead to performance. Entrepreneurs who have good competence will be able to look for good business opportunities and competence in managing. They will be linked in how to formulate a business strategy that is more suitable for their business so that it can affect their business performance to be even better than before (Sajilan & Adeyinka-ojo, 2016).
Entrepreneurial competence is the attitude, Knowledge, and skills of individuals who are interrelated that all business people need to be trained and developed. The indicators chosen to measure Entrepreneurial Competence refer to several studies that have been conducted by (Esubalew & Raghurama, 2020;Kraus et al., 2012;Robles & Zárraga, 2015;Yani et al., 2020).

Business Performance
One of the crucial concerns in today's economic environment is how to measure performance in business for both academics and practice managers. This is important because it considers differentiating aspects that can potentially confuse subjective measures (also described as perceptual performance) and objective measures (Nasip et al., 2017). Performance is the result of completing a job that can represent the level of achievement of each job and can meet expectations, policies or requirements that must be met for official roles in the organization (Wardani & Eliyana, 2020). Another definition of performance is productivity activities that state the quality, quantity and contribution of work. When high productivity is achieved, the overall performance in an organization will also be high (Yani et al., 2020).
Meanwhile, the definition of business performance is the potential possessed by the company to adjust to the business environment that follows changes in the market environment. It consists of competitors, customers and other factors that can change how the business works itself (Rekarti & Doktoralina, 2017). Therefore, the ability to manage financial and nonfinancial performance is essential in order to be able to produce good business performance (Barazandeh et al., 2015;Rehman, 2020;Yani et al., 2020).

METHOD
This research is to obtain 1) the effect of Knowledge on business performance, 2) the effect of skills on business performance, and 3) individual abilities on business performance. The independent variable in this study is entrepreneurial competence. Entrepreneurial competence variable with the dimensions of Knowledge, skills, and individual abilities. And the dependent variable is business performance which includes financial and non-financial performance.
Based on the variables studied, this type of research is based on the objectives to be achieved, namely verification descriptive research. Based on the type of research above, namely descriptive and verification research, the method used is an explanatory survey. The analysis technique used in this research is multiple regression and the hypothesis testing used is the t-test (partial significance test) and F test (simultaneous significance test).

Path Coefficient and Correlation Coefficiency Test
This test aims to determine the effect of entrepreneurial competence dimensions: Knowledge, skills, individual ability, and Business Performance. The results of data processing can be seen in Table 4.10 below To obtain the path coefficient, the correlation inverse matrix is associated with the correlation between the independent sub variable (X) and the dependent variable (Y). Figure  4.6 below presents the correlation coefficients and path coefficients.   Table 4.10 as follows: To obtain the path coefficient, the correlation inverse matrix is associated with the correlation between the independent sub variable (X) and the dependent variable (Y). Figure  4.7 below presents the correlation coefficients and path coefficients.

Total Effect Test
The total effect ( 2 )can be calculated manually using the path coefficient matrix 1 , 2 , 3 and then multiplied by the Y column matrix. Meanwhile, if you use SPSS to find out, it can be seen in the R square column as shown in Table 4.11  (Sugiyono, 2017). The rest is influenced by other variables not examined in this study. (Al Mamun et al., 2019;Barazandeh et al., 2015;Dhamayantie & Fauzan, 2017;Ferreras-garcia & Hernández-lara, 2019;Sungkawati, 2019) Direct and Indirect Influence Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that there was an influence between Knowledge ( 1 ) and Individual Ability ( 3 ) on Business Performance (Y). To see more about the magnitude of the direct and indirect effects of each variable, it is presented in Table  4.12 the details of the direct and indirect effects are as follows:

Path Coefficient of Other Variables (Epsilon)
The path coefficient of other variables outside the model can be found after knowing the total influence value ( 2 ). The total influence value of the Entrepreneurial Competence and Business Performance variable based on the results of SPSS data processing is 0.279. To determine the path coefficient value of other variables, the following formula is used: Based on the calculations above, it can be seen that the magnitude of the other path coefficients that affect Business Performance is 0.720 or (0.849)² = 0.720 x 100% = 72.0%. This illustrates that the Entrepreneurship Competence of the 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI is influenced by variables that are not examined by 72.0% or are in a strong category.

Simultaneous Test
Simultaneous testing is carried out to determine the significance of the magnitude of the influence of Entrepreneurial Competence on Business Performance. The hypothesis of this test is the effect of Knowledge ( 1 ) and Individual Ability ( 3 ) on Business Performance (Y) simultaneously, which is tested using SPSS 22 for Windows. The overall (simultaneous) hypothesis test results can be seen in Table 4.14 below Based on the table above, it can be seen that the test for the F test taken from Anova with a probability level (Sig) = 0.000 because Sig < 0.05 and ℎ > ie 7.449 > 3.16, then the decision is 0 rejected, meaning that overall (simultaneously) there is a positive influence and significant between Entrepreneurship Competence and Business Performance in 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI. (Al Mamun et al., 2019;Barazandeh et al., 2015;Dhamayantie & Fauzan, 2017;Ferreras-garcia & Hernández-lara, 2019;Sungkawati, 2019) Partial Test This test is conducted to determine whether each dimension affects or not on Business Performance. The following can be seen as the results of the partial test in Table 4.15 using SPSS 22 for Windows  Mamun et al., 2019;Barazandeh et al., 2015;Dhamayantie & Fauzan, 2017;Ferreras-garcia & Hernández-lara, 2019;Sungkawati, 2019).

CONCLUSIONS
Based on a study on 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI, it shows that the characteristics of respondents are dominated by female alumni, most of them have been entrepreneurs in the culinary field, all of them have undergraduate education, and almost half of them have experience in entrepreneurship < 1 year.
Not only that, based on the description of the theory and the results of research that has been carried out using descriptive and verification analysis using path analysis between the dimensions of Entrepreneurial Competence, namely Knowledge, Skills, and Individual Ability to Business Performance (Study on 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI) it can be concluded that : The description of Entrepreneurial Competencies for the 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI is in the fairly good category, it can be said that more than half of the respondents can implement entrepreneurial competencies in UPI Business Education. The per-dimensional explanation is as follows: Knowledge description is in the fairly good category with the statement "Has knowledge about marketing" having the highest percentage of assessment, while the statement "Able to manage resources" having the lowest percentage of assessment.
Description of Individual Ability is in the medium category with the statement "Has leadership" having the highest percentage of assessment, while the statement "Ability to advance the business" has the lowest percentage of assessment.
Business Performance Description of 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI is in the medium category, meaning that some respondents think that the financial performance dimensions of 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI are quite good. The dimensions that received high responses were the dimensions of Non-Financial Performance and the dimensions of Financial Performance with low responses.
The magnitude of the influence of the Entrepreneurial Competence dimension on Business Success partially, namely, the Knowledge dimension is not complex, so it will affect Business Performance. Meanwhile, the Individual Ability dimension does not affect Business Performance. Simultaneously (overall) there is a positive and significant influence between Entrepreneurial Competence and Business Performance on 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI. Therefore, based on research on 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI relating to the characteristics of respondents, the authors recommend several things regarding the influence of entrepreneurial competence on business performance, namely: Entrepreneurial Competence in 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI can be improved in terms of Individual Ability because they get the lowest dimension score through Entrepreneurship Training, Seminars, Workshops, etc.
Business Performance of 2013 Business Education alumni at UPI can be improved in terms of non-financial performance because they have the lowest hyperdimensional value. The influence of the entrepreneurial competence dimension on Business Performance for alumni of Business Education 2013 at UPI is in the weak category. So respondents must improve aspects of entrepreneurial competence to improve business performance to compete and excel.
Weaknesses in this study include research conducted at one time (cross-sectional) so that there is the possibility of individual behavior changing rapidly from time to time, besides the variables used in this study, do not represent all the factors that affect business performance and still use the population of fewer than 100 respondents.