Reorienting the organisational strategy of SMEs during the COVID-19 crisis: can entrepreneurial orientation help?

Purpose: This paper offers innovative strategies on how small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can respond to the COVID-19 crisis by incorporating an entrepreneurial orientation concept corresponding to the nature of the environmental shock. Design/methodology/approach: This paper conceptualises a solution by elaborating three critical items, namely entrepreneurial orientation, adaptive process and strategy types as key factors to develop the framework solution. This paper outlines a strategy proposal for SMEs to respond to the crisis. Findings: The environmental factor represents the crisis, which leads to a degree of innovation, i.e., radical and incremental, and can be approached using an adjusted adaptive consolidation process from Child. This paper identifies four strategy options from Miles and Snow to respond to the crisis;i.e. (1) defender–exploitative innovation;(2) analyser–organisational ambidexterity;(3) prospector–exploratory innovation and (4) reactor–abandon or shut down the business. Originality/value: While most of the suggestions from previous COVID-19-related works are acknowledged, this paper brings more insight from an academic perspective, specifically organisational theory, to cope with the pandemic crisis. The steps and strategy to be chosen can guide policymakers to decide what is their best move to respond to this crisis. In addition, the proposed strategies call for future research to provide empirical evidence by exploring and examining various scenarios in different kinds of businesses. © 2022, Emerald Publishing Limited.

PhET-assisted electronic student worksheets of physics (eSWoP) on heat for inquiry learning during covid

Now, this is referred to as the industrial era 4.0, which is present simultaneously as the era of disruption. Therefore, this study aims to produce Electronic Student Worksheets of Physics (eSWoP) with the help of Sway to use PhET Simulations on physics learning about temperature and heat. This research was conducted using ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) research methods. The sample for the application of eSWoP used in the study was 86 students aged 16-18 years from a province in Indonesia. The result of this study is a PhET-assisted eSWoP teaching material that can be used through various electronic devices, using PhET simulations that can help students understand physics subjects at temperature and heat. In the questionnaire given to students, information was obtained that eSWoP media is useful, easy to use and can increase students' learning motivation. It was suggested that eSWoP technology could be a powerful and effective tool to enable students from the physics lesson into the inquiry process. Moreover, the implications of using eSWoP for teaching physics and recommendations for further studies are also discussed in this study. © 2021 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.

Application of online science practicum by using Microsoft Teams and Learning Management System (LMS) during the Covid 19 pandemic

The research objective of this is to see how to apply science practicum online using Microsoft Teams and Learning Management System (LMS). The form of this research is classroom action research which aims to apply the online science practicum during the Covid 19 pandemic. Therefore, it is carried out using two cycles in the application of online science practicum. The subjects of this study were students of the seventh semester in the Natural Science practicum course. Through observation and evaluation, it is shown that in the cycle I the percentage of practicum implementation which includes aspects of preparation, process and data and practicum results is 87.5%, in cycle II it has increased to 92.5%. In the assessment aspect of the practicum report, the average practicum assessment obtained in the first cycle was 3.09 from the highest score of 4 and in the second cycle was 3.7, while the aspect of student knowledge about the use of the Microsoft team which was taken using google form was 93%. In the aspect of student knowledge about the use of Learning Management System (LMS) by 75% and aspects of student understanding in the implementation of online science practicum using Microsoft Teams by 75%. © 2021 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.