Department Of Accounting and Business Administration

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    SCANNING TASK AND GENERAL ENVIRONMENTS: A COMPARATIVE EFFECT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SMES IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA
    (2017) Olayiwola, P.O.; Akeke, I.N.
    The study examined the relationship between environmental scanning and the financial and nonfinancial performance of SMEs in Lagos State, Nigeria. The survey research design was adopted. The population of the study comprised 3864 Small and Medium Enterprises in Lagos State, Nigeria. Stratified and purposive sampling techniques were used to select the participating SMEs. Results showed a positive and significant relationship between task and general environmental scanning and performance. In addition, task and general environmental scanning jointly predicted the performance of SMEs. It is recommended that SMEs owners should concentrate more on the task environment as it has a more direct effect on organizational objectives. In addition, the size of the general environment is usually large, available staff may not have the competency required and the cost may be too large for SMEs. Hence owner-manager should concentrate efforts on scanning the immediate environment. While an attempt could be made toward outsourcing general environmental scanning information from business research agencies at a reduced cost.
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    Strategic Orientation, Knowledge Management and Performance of Telecommunication Sector
    (2019-06) Akeke, I.N.; Olayiwola, P.O.
    The study examined the mediating role of knowledge management in the relationship between strategic orientation and firm performance in southwest Nigeria using a data set of 300 customers and 57 managers of the telecommunication firms which include the customer care staff members. The collected data was analysed using mediation analysis. The results indicate that strategic orientation is positively related to performance by 0.37, while knowledge management is directly related to performance by 0.16. On a direct basis, the result shows that strategic orientation has larger effect on performance than the direct effect of knowledge management on performance. The results showed further that the introduction of knowledge management as a mediating variable improves the relationship between strategic orientation and performance by 0.04. The results lead to the conclusion that knowledge management is nearly indispensable in the role of strategic orientation as a necessary factor in the performance drive of firms.