... the embeddedness of money, motherhood, management, market and the macro/meso environment dimensions influence female entrepreneurs’ experiences in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach The interpretivist phenomenological approach is adopted to understand the challenges and opportunities available to IFEs...

... institutions in their country. Findings Indigenous institutions have evolved to replace formalised institutions within the business environment in Nigeria. They have developed to become an alternative and trusted arbiter for solving SMEs' export issues because of weak/dysfunctional formal institutions...

...Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah; Kabiru Oyetuunde Purpose Employee turnover has been established as a major cause of the abysmal performance of SMEs in Nigeria. Hence, the study explored the role of servant leadership and the work climate created by the leader in the reduction of employee turnover...

... if informal linkages and formal cooperation are helping firms to overcome constraints to uptake of technological innovations in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on quantitative data obtained from structured interviews of 631 Nigerian firms. These firms were selected using stratified...

... uses primary data gathered from 372 entrepreneurial firms in Nigeria, a Sub-Saharan African country. Findings – The findings of the paper suggest that that regulatory environment is negatively related to firm performance. However, political ties and environmental dynamism moderate the regulatory...