THE IMPACT OF ENTREPRENUERIAL SKILLS ON FIRM PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Manufacturing industries is one of the key economic drivers worldwide and entrepreneurial skills should be fully utilized well to ensure growth of these industries since the government has neglected many resources and concentrated on exploitation of oil. For a country to attain high entrepreneurial economy levels  in terms of high net profit returns, salient dynamic features of these manufacturing industries should be addressed prompting this research which is seeking to establish the effects of entrepreneurial skills on financial performance of listed manufacturing industries in Nigeria. The study’s specific objectives are: to investigate the effect of resourcefulness on financial performance of listed manufacturing industries, to examine the effect of risk taking on financial performance of listed manufacturing industries, to determine the effect of creativity on financial performance of listed manufacturing industries and to investigate the effect of leadership skills on financial performance of listed manufacturing industries. The research will adopt a research design that is descriptive and a sampling method known as stratified random to get the sample size.  The collection of primary data will be from direct responses from listed manufacturing industries by using structured questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed through Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 22. Descriptive and inferential statistics will be used in analyzing data where multiple regression and correlation analysis will be used to examine the influence of independent variables on the dependent variable.