Culture on Entrepreneurial Attitude and Organizational Survival

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of culture on entrepreneurial attitudes and the survival of small and medium scale enterprises in Port Harcourt. The cross sectional survey method was adopted. A sample size of eighty was drawn from a population of one hundred employees using the Taro Yamane formula. The questionnaire was the main instrument for data collection and data obtained was analysed using the SPSS. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was used to test the hypothesis. Our finding revealed that culture significantly related to entrepreneurial attitudes and the survival of small and medium scale enterprises. We concluded that culture has significant effect on entrepreneurial attitude and survival of small and medium scale enterprises. We recommended that Managers should cultivate adaptive culture that enables organization members to have and maintain entrepreneurial attitude that can help the organizations to survive and achieve their goals.

Keywords: culture, entrepreneurial attitude, survival, small/medium scale enterprises