Umar Gunu

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at University of Ilorin

Most firms utilize Corporate Diversification (CD) for survival, growth, increase market share, competitive advantage, and superior profitability. They expand via segments, ranges, subsidiaries and incomes generating sources to achieve this objective. However, environmental issues such as uncertainty and complexity create additional costs, systemic...

Corporate diversification has been a concern for corporate organizations that are determined for growth and expansion. Despite the existence of several frameworks of corporate governance and management to ensure effective and efficient management of subsidiaries and business segments, firms are still facing financial performance challenges resultin...

Over the years, industrial actions have been one of the crucial issues resulting to the decline in organizational productivity in Nigeria. Strike actions have been considered by the organized unions as a means of expressing their grievances and strugglingfor their rights and privileges. These actions have serious and negative effects on organizatio...

The diverse attributes of human resource in an organisation has proved to be the bedrock of creativity and innovation. Coincidentally, it is the source of disharmony, politicking and divergent views. Therefore, this study examines the effect of workforce diversity and product innovation in Nigeria manufacturing industry. Survey design was adopted u...

A decent work environment is a crucial concept for promoting work-life balance. Using quantitative analysis with Partial Least Square_ Structural Equation Model, we examined whether four dimensions of a decent work environment, such as employment, social dialogue, social security, and workers’ rights, affect work-life balance of employees in the ba...

Entrepreneurship means creating wealth through togetherness of resources in new ways to start and operate an enterprise. Farmers can explore the enormous opportunities associated the value chain as source of livelihood. Pitching tent as an entrepreneur around rice value chain will serve as another source of income to compliment the profit to be gen...

Corporate diversification has been a concern for corporate organizations that are determined for growth and expansion. Despite the existence of several frameworks of corporate governance and management to ensure effective and efficient management of subsidiaries and business segments, firms are still facing financial performance challenges resultin...

Corruption has a major impact on growth in low-income economies, while ease of doing business has a major impact on growth in developed countries. The study empirically examines the effect of corruption on ease of doing business. The study analyses unbalanced panel data of corruption rank, corruption score, control of corruption, and inflation, tog...

The numerous government interventions in entrepreneurship development after independence have not reduced the unemployment rate in Nigeria. Recent public projection of unemployment rate by the federal government in May 2019 from 23.1 per cent to 33.5 per cent by year 2020, has unimaginable consequences. The question then is, what are the government...

This is a preliminary analysis of data on the effect of decent work environment on WLB in Nigerian SMEs. The study examined non-response bias, missing values, outliers, normality, and multicollinearity and evaluated the measurement model using internal consistency reliability, convergent, and discriminant validity. We control missing values using f...

Against the background of the importance of entrepreneurship to economic growth and development, this paper investigates the potential for achieving growth and development through entrepreneurship in underdeveloped economies. Specifically, the study investigated the availability of the environment for and the extent to which individuals and groups...

The effects of firms’ strategic factors on strategic choices and performance differentials in Nigerian manufacturing sectors have not been systematically investigated. Against the backdrop of declining manufacturing performance in Nigeria, this paper examined the effects of selected firm strategic factors on the returns on invested capital in Niger...

The effects of firms’ resources and idiosyncrasies and overall industry characteristics on performance differentials in Nigeria are not well known. How industries shape their interactions as exhibited by resources and performance has not yet been proven empirically using Nigerian evidence. Consequently, this study was carried out to compare the eff...

Sound strategic decision making in manufacturing firms is the bedrock for realizing the huge potentials of the sector. Against the background of inclement market structure conditions for manufacturing firms survival in Nigeria and plethora of empirical evidence supporting the dominance of firm strategic factors over market structure factors in str...

Pension fund is a pool of resources contributed by the employees with the aim of having enough resources to carter for their needs after retirement. Therefore, pension fund needs to be invested so as to meet the aim of the contributors. This study was carried out to evaluate the factors that determine investment of Pension Funds. The study used pri...

Almost all employers tie at least some portion of their workers’ pay to the workers’ and / or the company’s performance. Employees do not see a strong connection between pay and performance and employees’ performance is not particularly influenced by the company’s incentive plan. The study specifically identified the link between rewards and indivi...

Oil prices have been highly volatile since the end of World War II. The volatility becomes even more serious inrecent time. This has implications for the economies of oil exporting countries, particularly oil dependentcountries like Nigeria. The paper examined the impact of these fluctuations on macroeconomic of Nigeria.Using VAR, the impact of cru...

Financial markets could be money or capital markets. The commoditiestraded on these markets are financial instruments as equities. In Nigeria most quoted companies release their share prices on daily basis. The prices of equities fluctuate as a result of changes in the macro environment of the market from time to time. What are these environmental...

Banking Industry recapitalization was intended to improve so many indices in the Banking Industry. Some of the indices are affected were; Shareholders Fund, Total Assets, Number of Branches and Employment. The magnitude of improvement of the current indices and the former indices before recapitalization are not the same. The research sought to disc...

Decisions taken by Pension Fund Administrators whether to invest in a particular asset class or not depend upon relative importance of different factors. The relative importance of these factors and the interactions among decisions taken by PFAs has remained unknown to the contributors. Therefore, this study is designed to examine factors affecting...