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ISSN: 2320–0227 SCIENCEDOMAIN international www.sciencedomain.org Does Future Really Matter? Future Anticipation as an Antecedent of Market Performance 1 Jony Oktavian Haryanto 1 and Sony Heru Priyanto 2 1 Podomoro University, Jakarta, Indonesia. 2 Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Indonesia. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration between all authors. Author JOH designed the study, wrote the protocol, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. Author SHP managed the literature searches, analyses of the study performed the structural equation modelling and discuss the conclusion. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734JSRR20158374 Editors: 1 James P. Concannon, Faculty of Education Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA. 2 Diana E. Marco, National University of Cordoba, Argentina and National Research Council CONICET, Argentina. Reviewers: 1 Alicia Ramirez-Orellana, Department of Economy and Business, University of Almeria, Spain. 2 Izaidin Abdul Majid, Faculty of Technology Management and Technopreneurship, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia. 3 Anonymous, Hue University, Vietnam. Complete Peer review History: http:www.sciencedomain.orgreview-history.php?iid=689id=22aid=6261 Received 11 th December 2013 Accepted 4 th June 2014 Published 29 th September 2014 ABSTRACT Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises SMEsUMKM are the backbones of national economy. Batik Pekalongan, Solo and Lasem are examples of successful SMEs to stimulate local economy while creating products that are competitive in the national and international level. The purpose of this article is to identify the leading factors, as well as the barriers to doing batik business. In addition, this study also wanted to know the anticipation of future events done by batik entrepreneurs in creating customer value. The method used is a quantitative approach to structural equation modeling methods in order to understand the antecedents of market performance in SMEs Batik Pekalongan, Solo and Lasem. The results showed that anticipation and future customer value are antecedents to market performance batik entrepreneurs in those three areas. 1 This research is funded by Directorate of Higher Education Republic of Indonesia under scheme of “Unggulan Perguruan Tinggi”. Original Research Article Haryanto and Priyanto; JSRR, 41: 12-20, 2015; Article no.JSRR.2015.002 13 Keywords: Batik; structural model; customer value; extra efforts.

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