Effects of Socio-Cultural Realities on the Nigerian Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs):
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Date
2014
Authors
Johnson, F. O.
George, O
Owoyemi, O.
Adegboye, M.
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Canadian Center of Science and Education
Abstract
Abstract Socio-cultural realities are importance components in the Nigerian business environment. There is a shortage of literature and studies that linked socio-cultural realities to business development and performance. Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) constitutes over 70 per cent of the Nigerian businesses and characteristically informal. The objectives of this paper are in two-folds, namely (i) identify socio-cultural realities in the SME business environment in Nigeria and; (ii) examine the impact of these factors (in i) on the development of SMEs. Socio-cultural realities were measured from three major factors, namely attitude; religion and values: each of this factor were further categorised into several level of constructs. Responses from ten (10) SME owners/representatives in the five (5) major districts of Lagos state identified the socio-cultural realities as key factors affecting their businesses. A further research is recommended to further establish whether these results reflect the general condition in other states of Nigeria.
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Staff Publication
Keywords
Small-medium enterprises, , Religion , Attitude , Values
Citation
Johnson, F. O; George, O; Owoyemi, O. and Adegboye,M. (2014), Effects of Socio-Cultural Realities on the Nigerian Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs): Case of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Lagos State. International Journal of Business and Management; Vol. 9 ( 1)