Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs with Disability in Nigeria

Rebecca Omosefe DABOR, Anthonia Tghiebemhe Otsupius — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 03:23:55 +0000

The objective of this study is to ascertain the challenges facing entrepreneurs with disability in Nigeria. The study used survey research design to gather data from one hundred respondents from Small and Medium Scale businesses in Abuja. The study employed regression statistical technique to ascertain the extent to which these challenges hamper the success of entrepreneurs with disability. The results showed that lack social capital, lack of fund and inadequate business network have negative effects on entrepreneurial success of people with disability. This study recommended that, first, affirmative action should be taken by Government, business development service providers and PWD support organizations to give PWDs access to financial facilities.

Key Words: Entrepreneur, Financial constraint, People with disability

The Entrepreneurial Spirit and Tran nationalization of the IGBO Entrepreneurship Model

Uzoamaka Godwin Peter vander Sijde, Bart Bossink — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 03:30:18 +0000

The Igbos ethnic nationality from Nigeria are a heuristic ethnic group who pride themselves globally as exceptional entrepreneurs, this is because the Igbo embrace entrepreneurship as a survival strategy for wealth accumulation while assuming the Igbo entrepreneurship model paradigm as a procedure of the embeddedness of entrepreneurial spirit . This paper is an exploratory study geared towards provoking debates on the entrepreneurial spirit and the Nwa-boi apprenticeship system practiced by Ndi Igbo worldwide and how the Igbo entrepreneurs maintain economic ties with their home countries and countries of residence, which enables these entrepreneurs to transform isolated geographic locations into transnational, translocal, or multilocal spaces where they can carry out their entrepreneurship using embeddedness essences derived from their ethnocultural patterns and entrepreneurial spirit.

Key Words: Entrepreneurship Model, Entrepreneurial Spirit, Ethnic Nationality

African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovations (AJeIN)

Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs with Disability in Nigeria

The Entrepreneurial Spirit and Tran nationalization of the IGBO Entrepreneurship Model