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Entrepreneur Department
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Entrepreneurship practices exist in most countries of the world, including Nigeria. In Nigeria the development of entrepreneurship has gone a long way to achieve industrialization and economic development. Management scholars agree that although management theory and practices have universal applications, the individual and groups with which it must interact, and the external environment differs in some way. It is acknowledged by management scholars also that there are many deviations in management theory all over the world.
The attempt to discover the determinants of managerial success of entrepreneurs has always been a heart-throb among researchers of various fields of studies. Biographies of successful entrepreneurs and business men for instance reflected the tendency of the subject of such studies to explain their success in terms of virtue of hand work, thrift and clean living (Baridam 1995:15). As an alternative to biographical models are these studies that, turn the man who manipulates the omnipotent touch (Gases 1983: 20). Culture is dynamic in nature but cannot be change mechanically rather could be modified to suit a given environment. Almost every perception and behavior is guided by the human invention we call culture. Each culture shapes perception and behaviors by paving relative attention to some details of reality and ignoring others or by permitting some actions and forbidding others.
The following research hypothesis will guide the study;
Ho1: There is no significant relationship between Norms and the productivity of some selected private firms in Port Harcourt
Ho2: There is no significant relationship between belief system and the productivity of some selected private firms in Port Harcourt.
Ho3: There is no significant relationship between attitude and the productivity of some selected private firms in Port Harcourt.
This research study will be of great importance to the entrepreneurs interactiveness with the market and its customers. It will also be useful to the entrepreneur's internal decision marketing process and will also influence the decisions to create new business. This finding of the research will improve or add to existing world of knowledge and will also create awareness of the Norms, belief system and attitude of Nigerians to foreigners who desire to create business in Nigeria.
This study was conducted and limited to target population, geographical boundary study variable and units of analysis. From the above statement, the target population will focus on selected private firms in Port Harcourt. The geographical boundary is Port Harcourt, the study variable will be divided into two: the independent variable represented as culture (having dimensions as; Norms belief system and attitude) and the dependent variable represented as entrepreneurial performance (having measures as; productivity). The unit of analysis is at the organizational level.
According to Cosuala, 1985: 80), definition of terms is the most important facet of the research report, since without a common understanding of essential terms; the value of the research very be lost through misinterpretation. These level been defined however to back up this work.
Entrepreneurs: Schumpeter (1934), entrepreneur, are innovators who use a process of shattering the status quo of the existing products and service to set up a new product and services.
Entrepreneurship: according to Meredith et al (1991), entrepreneurship is the process of organizational and coordinating the factors of production and taking necessary decision to establish a business enterprise and keep it in with the pattern of demand and market values.
Business: business is regarded as the process of creating, procuring or providing goods and services to customers or those who need them in proper quantities and qualities at suitable times and places at satisfactory process Nwaeke (2002).
Culture: Hofsted (1991) defined culture as the software of the mind and collective phenomena, shared with people who live in the same social environment.
Values: as a board tendency to prefer certain states of affairs over others.
Business Environment: according to Jones et al (2002), they are those factors or forces that have potential effect on the way business operate
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