ENTREPRENEURIAL PROACTIVENESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE IN MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION FIRMS IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA
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The study examined the relationship between entrepreneurial proactiveness and organizational resilience in mobile telecommunication firms in Rivers State. The methodology was quantitative and the research design was the cross-sectional survey. The study population was the Regional Offices or Mega Centres of four major communication firms identified in this study, namely: MTN Nigeria, GLOBACOM Nigeria, AIRTEL Nigeria, and 9Mobile Nigeria. A total of 177 senior staff (managerial and supervisory) was identified through personal visits and inquiry from these offices and centres. The sample size of 123 was determined using the Krejcie & Morgan (1970) sample size determination table. The hypotheses were tested using the Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Coefficient with the aid of the SPSS version 23 package for the bivariate relationship between the entrepreneurial proactiveness and the measures of organizational resilience at a 0.05 level of significance. The results from the analysis revealed that entrepreneurial proactiveness influence significantly the measures of organizational resilience. The study recommended that learning and knowledge development are key to the pro-activeness of the organization and as such should focus on the market changes and the satisfaction issues that prevail in the market.
Key words: Entrepreneurial Proactiveness, Organizational Resilience, Adaptive Capacity, Situation Awareness, Vulnerability Response
CITATION: Coleman, R. O., & Adim, C. V. (2019). Entrepreneurial proactiveness and organizational resilience in mobile telecommunication firms in Rivers State, Nigeria. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 6 (3), 454 – 465.
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