Nigerian Higher Education Institutions Performance: Does Strategic Improvisation and Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy Matter?
Date
2016Author
Najafi Auwalu Ibrahim
Rosli Mahmood
Muhammad Shukri Bakar
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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.