THE EFFECT OF MANAGERIAL COMPETENCE, DIGITAL LITERACY, AND GOOD COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE ON MANAGEMENT BOARD PERFORMANCE IN MERAH PUTIH VILLAGE AND URBAN VILLAGE COOPERATIVES: EVIDENCE FROM SEMARANG REGENCY, INDONESIA

Alis Arifa Rahman

Abstract


The Merah Putih Village and Urban Village Cooperative program (Koperasi Desa/Kelurahan Merah Putih, KDKMP) is a strategic Indonesian policy initiative designed to strengthen community-based economic institutions. Its effectiveness depends not only on institutional establishment and resource support but also on the capacity of cooperative management boards to manage their organizations professionally, adaptively, transparently, and through the effective use of digital technologies. This study examines the effects of managerial competence, digital literacy, and Good Cooperative Governance on management board performance in KDKMP units in Semarang Regency, Indonesia. The study adopts a quantitative explanatory design covering 235 village and urban-village units through a census-based approach, with one key management-board respondent from each cooperative. The questionnaire uses a five-point Likert scale and comprises 40 items. Digital literacy is adapted from the five competence areas of DigComp 3.0, whereas cooperative governance is assessed through transparency, accountability, responsibility, independence, and fairness. For preliminary methodological review, the analytical model was assessed using an initial dataset of 235 observations. The assessment yielded Cronbach's alpha values ranging from 0.922 to 0.942, an adjusted R-squared of 0.519, and an F-statistic of 85.084 (p < 0.001). Managerial competence (beta = 0.282), digital literacy (beta = 0.292), and Good Cooperative Governance (beta = 0.382) all exhibited positive relationships with management board performance. The study's novelty lies in integrating managerial, digital, and governance capabilities within a single framework to explain management board performance during the early operationalization of KDKMP. These statistical estimates are presented for methodological review and will be replaced by verified field-survey results in the final empirical manuscript.

 

Keywords: Digital Literacy; Good Cooperative Governance; Managerial Competence; Management Board Performance; Merah Putih Village Cooperative.

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