%0 Journal Article
%T The Joint Moderating Effect of Location and Culture on Small Firm Performance
%A Esuh Ossai-Igwe Lucky
%J International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
%D 2012
%I Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
%X Due to the inconsistent findings on the influence of entrepreneurial factors on the firm performance, the author therefore proposed a contingency model in which the effect of individual determinants, external factor and firm characteristics are to be moderated by location and culture. As a result of this, a cross-sectional study of questionnaire survey approach was conducted and data was generated from 182 entrepreneurs/owner-managers of small firms in both manufacturing and service industries in Lagos through self-administered questionnaire procedure. The findings indicate that location and culture is insignificant in jointly moderating the relationship between individual determinants, external factors and firm characteristics, and firm performance.
%K Entrepreneurship determinants
%K entrepreneurship development
%K location
%K culture
%K external factor
%K performance
%U http://www.hrmars.com/admin/pics/526.pdf