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INTRAPRENEURSHIP ACTIVITIES AND SMES ACHIEVEMENT OF SELECTED AGRIC BUSINESS IN ABEOKUTA, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA.

Author : TIJANI, Omofolasaye Omobolanle; OMODANISI, Elijah Ope; and OKUNBANJO, Olajide Idowu

Corresponding Author: OKUNBANJO, Olajide Idowu

Email Okunbanjoolajide@yahoo.com

Section : Research Paper

Country : Nigeria

Keywords : Locus of control, Competency, Psychological contract, Risk taking, SMEs achievement

Abstract : The trend of globalisation has turned the ways the characters SMEs operators displayed in achieving their goals and objectives. This has made employees in organisations to possess and showed their entrepreneurial characters within the organisation. The objective of the study is to examine entrepreneurial activities and SME s achievement in Ogun State. Locus of control, competency, psychological contract and risk taking were used as indicators for entrepreneurial activities. Survey research was adopted and data were collected through administered questionnaires to the SMEs on Agri-business in Ogun State. 80 questionnaires were used to run the analysis through regression analysis. It was found that entrepreneurial activities have a significant effect on agribusiness SMEs in Ogun State. The study recommended that SMEs operators should create a platform in form of policies, support systems, structures and resources that will encourage employees to behave entrepreneurially within the organisations; and also, employees that behave entrepreneurially should be rewarded on regularly bases

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INTRAPRENEURSHIP ACTIVITIES AND SMES ACHIEVEMENT OF SELECTED AGRIC BUSINESS IN ABEOKUTA, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA.