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Nigerian higher education institutions performance: does strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy matter?

Global competition, dynamic environment; and the need for efficient and effective resource utilization have created a lot of pressure on today’s organisations including Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).Hence, the need for leaders capable of engaging in daring activities such as improvisation an...

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Main Authors: Ibrahim, Najafi Auwalu, Mahmood, Rosli, Bakar, Muhammad Shukri
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis 2016
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HB Economic Theory
LB2300 Higher Education
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spelling my.uum.repo.219652017-05-07T04:50:52Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/21965/ Nigerian higher education institutions performance: does strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy matter? Ibrahim, Najafi Auwalu Mahmood, Rosli Bakar, Muhammad Shukri HB Economic Theory LB2300 Higher Education Global competition, dynamic environment; and the need for efficient and effective resource utilization have created a lot of pressure on today’s organisations including Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).Hence, the need for leaders capable of engaging in daring activities such as improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy cannot be overemphasized.The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between leaders’ strategic improvisation, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and HEIs performance in Nigeria. Using a structured questionnaire to academic leaders in HEIs in Kano state, Nigeria a total of 220 useable data was gathered and analysed using SmartPLS 3.0. The result indicates that all the exogenous variables have a significant relationship with the endogenous variable of the study.Strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy explains 21.9% of the variance of HEIs performance.Interestingly, strategic improvisation was found to be the strongest predictor of HEIs performance in Nigeria.Finally, implications and suggestions for future studies were presented and elaborated. Universiti Malaysia Perlis 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/21965/1/JHDC%205%202016%2041%2062.pdf Ibrahim, Najafi Auwalu and Mahmood, Rosli and Bakar, Muhammad Shukri (2016) Nigerian higher education institutions performance: does strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy matter? Journal of Human Development and Communication (JoHDEC), 5. pp. 41-62. ISSN 2289-2702 https://johdec.unimap.edu.my/index.php/volume-5-2016
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topic HB Economic Theory
LB2300 Higher Education
spellingShingle HB Economic Theory
LB2300 Higher Education
Ibrahim, Najafi Auwalu
Mahmood, Rosli
Bakar, Muhammad Shukri
Nigerian higher education institutions performance: does strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy matter?
description Global competition, dynamic environment; and the need for efficient and effective resource utilization have created a lot of pressure on today’s organisations including Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).Hence, the need for leaders capable of engaging in daring activities such as improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy cannot be overemphasized.The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between leaders’ strategic improvisation, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and HEIs performance in Nigeria. Using a structured questionnaire to academic leaders in HEIs in Kano state, Nigeria a total of 220 useable data was gathered and analysed using SmartPLS 3.0. The result indicates that all the exogenous variables have a significant relationship with the endogenous variable of the study.Strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy explains 21.9% of the variance of HEIs performance.Interestingly, strategic improvisation was found to be the strongest predictor of HEIs performance in Nigeria.Finally, implications and suggestions for future studies were presented and elaborated.
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author Ibrahim, Najafi Auwalu
Mahmood, Rosli
Bakar, Muhammad Shukri
author_facet Ibrahim, Najafi Auwalu
Mahmood, Rosli
Bakar, Muhammad Shukri
author_sort Ibrahim, Najafi Auwalu
title Nigerian higher education institutions performance: does strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy matter?
title_short Nigerian higher education institutions performance: does strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy matter?
title_full Nigerian higher education institutions performance: does strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy matter?
title_fullStr Nigerian higher education institutions performance: does strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy matter?
title_full_unstemmed Nigerian higher education institutions performance: does strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy matter?
title_sort nigerian higher education institutions performance: does strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy matter?
publisher Universiti Malaysia Perlis
publishDate 2016
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/21965/1/JHDC%205%202016%2041%2062.pdf
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