Analysis of Entrepreneurial Innovation and Sales Growth in the Informal Sector: Evidence from Lagos State, Nigeria.

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There has been a significant contribution of the informal sector in terms of generating employment and also in the development of the national income of the country, ever since the rate of unemployment has been in increase, most of the third world countries including Nigeria have been incapacitated to employ workers due to economic meltdown and recession of the 1980s. it is on this instance that this study aimed at examining the impact of entrepreneurial innovation on organisational sales growth and organisational profitability among the professional carpenter and furniture makers association in Lagos state. The cross sectional design was employed to describe how independent constructs affects the dependents. The study also has a population of 75,123 out of which a sample of 382 was selected from the APCF, using Kriecie and Morgan‘s (1970). Additionally, a close ended questionnaire with 5 Likert Scale point was employed in enquiring from the targeted respondents. The result of this study revealed that entrepreneurial innovation significantly affects the organisational sales growth and organisational profitability. Hence this study concluded that entrepreneurial innovation among professional carpenter and furniture makers association in Lagos State significantly affects the organisational sales growth and organisational profitability. Lastly, the study recommended that efforts should be concentrated on improving the entrepreneurial innovation in an organisation so as to influence the organisational sales growth and organisational profitability.
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