Fraud awareness, information accountability and sustainable competitive advantage: governance moderation and capacity for accessing financing mediation

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to empirically test the influence of fraud awareness, information accountability and capacity for accessing financing on sustainable competitive advantage. Furthermore, this research examines the influence of fraud awareness and information accountability on sustainable competitive advantage through capacity for accessing financing. Finally, this research examines the influence of governance as a moderator of fraud awareness and information accountability on capacity for accessing financing.

Design/methodology/approach

This research uses quantitative methods. Researchers collected data by distributing questionnaires to tourism destination operators. This research used tourist destinations in Indonesia and obtained 506 samples. The data analysis technique uses SEM-PLS.

Findings

This research finds that fraud awareness, information accountability and the capacity for accessing financing increase sustainable competitive advantage. Furthermore, the capacity for accessing financing can mediate the influence of fraud awareness and information accountability on sustainable competitive advantage. Finally, governance strengthens the influence of fraud awareness and information accountability on the capacity for accessing financing.

Research limitations/implications

Research limitations are the difficulty accessing all tourist destinations in Indonesia and difficulty controlling respondent answer bias.

Practical implications

Practical implications are increasing the ability of tourist destinations to compete, helping to increase funding sources, good governance and information accountability.

Social implications

Apart from that, the main implication of this research is to increase fraud awareness and reduce fraud so that tourist destinations can achieve their goals.

Originality/value

The gap lies in previous research, which was unaware of the existence of fraud, which could damage the ability of tourist destinations to compete. Therefore, this research adds the fraud awareness variable. Besides, this study develops a different and unique model because it combines mediation and moderation variables into one research model.

Citation

Tarjo, T., Anggono, A., Haryadi, B., Mahya, L., Sakti, E. and Said, J. (2024), "Fraud awareness, information accountability and sustainable competitive advantage: governance moderation and capacity for accessing financing mediation", Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFC-04-2024-0121