Ann I Ogbo

University of Nigeria | UNN · Department of Management

There are various political, economic, social, and cultural factors, limiting individual decision-making ability. It can also be seen as restrictions imposed on the institution limiting their decision-making ability or their ability to generate and distribute income. Poverty had been a great hindrance to reaching the MDGs by 2015, introducing the d...

This study sought to determine entrepreneurship education and small and medium enterprises development in North Central, Nigeria. The nonchalant entrepreneurial attitude and intention of youths and individuals in the society has posed a lot of challenges leading to slow development of small and medium enterprises, with the resultant effects of poor...

As part of the ongoing efforts to ensure the acquisition of functional literacy and communicative competence among primary school leavers, the present study examined the implementation of the reading component of the primary school English curriculum under the UBE scheme. The study was a descriptive survey and recruited six head teachers and sixty...

Women participation in income generating activities is gaining attentions among analysts as well as policy makers. This becomes imperative as the global community is presently aware that all genders are inclusively needed in the labour force to speed up socioeconomic growth and development. This study employed survey research design with data from...

This paper examined the growth and unemployment linkage from a gender-classification perspective using the Nigerian economic environment. The autoregressive distributed lag model in its baseline form, the bound test, and error correction representation were used as the estimation approach. Annualized time series spanning 1981 to 2017 were used for...

Consumer shopping behavior is becoming increasingly polarized, which has an impact on price decisions, and the performance and sustainability of supermarkets. This study sets out to empirically determine the impact that pricing practice management has on the performance and sustainability of supermarkets in the urban area of Enugu State, Nigeria. T...

Expansion of food supply apparently offers the opportunity of increasing nutrition, health, wellness and stampeding hunger. This study offers the insight on ensuring food security through production innovation using South Eastern Nigeria as a case study. The population of this study was quoted food manufacturing firms in SouthEastern Nigeria which...

Minimal research effort has been expended to the extent to which adopted growth strategies stimulate corporate sustainability of development banks in developing economies such as Nigeria. Hence, the study examined how industry specific growth strategies have predicted the corporate sustainability of these banks. Corporate growth strategy variable w...

This paper aims to explore E-commerce as a strategy for sustainable value creation among selected traditional open market retailers in Enugu state. Every town in Nigeria boasts of an appreciable number of traditional retail markets, which play an essential role in African life, acting as both an economic necessity, and a cultural phenomenon that ha...

Organizational learning refers to the sum total of individual and collective learning through training programs, experience, experimentation and work interactions within the organization. Thus, sustainable competitive advantage is the ability to offer superior customer value on an enduring or consistent basis, a situation in which competitors are u...

This paper examined the impact of social entrepreneurship on sustainability of business development in Nigeria. The objectives of the study include: to identify major evolution experienced by social enterprise in Nigeria, to identify key challenges in social entrepreneurship in Nigeria, to identify current trends in social entrepreneurship in Niger...

Abstract: This work sought to determine the impact of business process re-engineering on the competitiveness of deposit money banks in Nigeria. The specific objectives assessed the nature of the relationship between corporate restructuring and competitive advantage, whilst examining the extent and nature of the relationship between innovative reth...

This study assessed the effects of computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS) on the performance of manufacturing companies in Enugu State, Nigeria. This paper was based on two research questions and two research hypotheses to guide this study in other to achieve the research objectives. The study was purposively done by sampling five manuf...

The purpose of this paper is to establish the difference in organizational justice perceptions and effects organizational justice dimensions on turnover intentions of workers in university teaching hospitals. The study adopted analytic descriptive survey design with quantitative methodology. Data were collected from university teaching hospitals in...

The downward trend in the Nigerian economy has become a source of worry to both the leaders and the led, making it difficult for the managers of businesses to make the decision for sustainable businesses. This work looks at the explosion of the Nigerian population from the year 2005 to date, the modern state of the Nigerian economy and the failed s...

Social entrepreneurs have to be smart enough among the rivalry. The have to preparefor competitors.As with any change - oriented activity, social business and social entrepreneurship have not evolved in a vacuum, but rather within a complex framework of institutional,political,economic,and social changes occurring at the global and local levels.Thi...

The key success factor that characterize a sustained business organisation in a challenged operational environment.The seemingly challenges ,resultant effect & how to address them sucessfully.

The study aimed at establishing an assessment of hygiene maintenance factors effects on employees’productivity. The hygiene/maintenance factors play vital role in employees’ productivity. They do not motivate employee in organization, yet they must be present or dissatisfaction will arise. . The study is aimed to pursue the following objectives: To...

This paper attempts to ascertain the impact of participative management on workflows, its influence on sales output and how well the concept is practised by consumer goods companies in Nigeria. Study adopted the survey design; questionnaires were used to collect necessary data from sales personnel across 10 states in South-Ssouth and South East Nig...

Intellectual capital is the deployment and management of intellectual capital resources and their transformations to maximize at present the organizations value creation in the eyes of its shareholders. Organizational performance is the extent to which the organizational objectives and goals are achieved in a competitive global business world. Most...

This study aimed to explore the degree to which audit committees in Jordanian public listed companies possess the necessary characteristics needed to enable them to perform their duties, and the level of their actual performance of these duties. To do so, the study used a questionnaire survey of the views of external auditors with experience in aud...

This study looked at business process reengineering and the performance of commercial banks in north central Nigeria. The need for this study arises from the dearth of empirical work on this subject matter especially as covering the north central zone of Nigeria. A sample size of 501 was drawn from a population of 17977 in 12 selected commercial ba...

Diversity has to do with the totality of the Differences and Similarities in different variables in the Management Sciences like Culture, Development, Management goals of equitable and fair employment, legislation, demographic characteristics such as sex, martial status, as highest education qualification, status and durations worked or tenure etc....

The study aimed at establishing the impact of structure on organizational performance. Organizations today are becoming more automated and complex, hence, the need to maintain and improve performance by structuring and restructuring based on changing strategy. The study was conducted using the survey approach. The geographical scope of study was In...

Statistically, Nigeria has a youth population of about 67 million, aged between 15 and 35 years. 42.2% of these young people are not gainfully employed while only 20% have more than the secondary school certificate. In order to bridge this gap, the Delta State Government developed the Delta ICT parks, a growing 21st century business, service and te...

This study took into consideration the relationship between effective system of inventory management and organization performance in the seven-up bottling company, Nile Mile Enugu. The researchers were motivated to embark on this study, in order to bring to fore the importance of effective inventory control system on organizational performance as i...

Workforce diversity includes the differences and similarities of the employees. Organizational performance is the extent to which the organizational objectives and goals are being achieved. Most business organizations fail in Nigeria because galvanizing diverse workforce to work as a team has been ineffective in terms of policy, training, exposure...

The success of a security outfit depends on the strategies and structure of the organisation. The study aims to unravel the possible ways of positioning the Nigerian Police force for effective service delivery through strategic restructuring. Nigerian police was instituted by the colonial authors on the threshold of oppression to achieve subjection...

Recent studies on innovation portray traditional approaches to innovation, wherein firms focus solely on their centralized Research and Development team in their pursuit and creation of innovation, as fast becoming outdated; bringing about the need to rethink the way firms managed innovation. This study was motivated by the need to understand the s...

The success of a security outfit depends on the strategies and structure of the organisation. The study aims to unravel the possible ways of positioning the Nigerian Police force for effective service delivery through strategic restructuring. Nigerian police was instituted by the colonial authors on the threshold of oppression to achieve subjection...

The paper is focused on the strategies to motivating technical staff in Nigeria. Nigeria is an emerging economy with various challenges imposed by globalisation and climatic change agents. Strategies adopted and their efficacy in motivating technical staff are expected to result in better appreciating and handling of environmental/climatic changes,...

Given the financial scandals and the resulting new mandates on business, firms find themselves pressed to develop strong codes of ethics to guide the behaviour of board members, managers and empl oyees. In recent times, the banking and telecommunication sectors in Nigeria have been the most vibrant; contr ibuting immensely to the growth and develop...

The world's climate is changing and will continue to change in the coming century at rates projected to be unprecedented in recent human history. The risks associated with these changes are real but highly uncertain. Societal vulnerability to the risks associated with climate change may exacerbate ongoing social and economic challenges, particularl...

Studies on management of the designed safety adherence model in Nigerian workplace environment revealed that there is an inter-relationship between adherence to safety rules and regulations and good work environment which invariably affect performance positively. Steps taken to develop the model putting into consideration the variables of safety en...

This paper is focused on the strategies to motivating technical staff in Nigeria. Nigeria is an emerging economy with various challenges imposed by globalisation and climatic change agents. Strategies adopted and their efficacy in motivating technical staff are expected to result in better appreciating and handling of environmental/climatic changes...

Of all the challenges faced by managers today, the management of technological innovation (MTI) is one of the most demanding. Get it right and firms create value and profit. Get it wrong and firms can face serious and perhaps terminal problems, losing money, workers, and reputation. This will lead to revenue loss, company closures and increased une...

The aim of the paper is to develop and analyse the contributions of entrepreneurship in the economic development through SME development in Nigeria. A total of 100 SMEs were randomly selected from a cross section of a population of all SMEs spread around some states of Nigeria and covering virtually all forms of enterprise. Participants were select...

The paper is on the application of probability theory in small business firms in Nigeria. It looks at the rate small business firms fail despite the programmes of government directed at their survival. The continued failure has resulted in a wide gap between the haves and the have-nots. The application of probability theory in small business is exa...