An assessment of the innovativeness of firms in Nigeria’s petroleum sector

dc.contributor.authorBubou, Gordon Monday
dc.contributor.authorAmadi-Echendu, J.E. (Joe)
dc.contributor.emailgordon.bubou@tuks.co.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-16T09:15:55Z
dc.date.available2019-07-16T09:15:55Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-10
dc.description.abstractA firm’s level of innovativeness is regarded as an indicator of its creativity, competitiveness, and performance. An understanding of the processes that lead to innovativeness is therefore crucial to scholars and practitioners. This makes innovativeness assessment a necessity, especially for firms. Perplexingly, there are few innovativeness studies on resource-intensive industrial sectors, such as petroleum, in African countries. This paper is a contribution to filling the knowledge gap. The study used item means to analyse data from a cross-sectional survey. The findings show that, while overall the petroleum firms were barely innovative, they performed better in terms of the non-technological aspects of innovativeness.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractʼn Firma se vlak van innovasie word as ʼn aanduiding van sy kreatiwiteit, kompeterendheid en vertoning geag. Die begrip van die prosesse wat lei tot innovasie is dus krities vir navorsers en praktisyne. Dit maak innovasie assessering ʼn noodsaaklikheid, veral vir firmas. Tog is daar min studies wat die innovasievlak in hulpbron intensiewe industrieë, soos die petroleum-industrie, in Afrika. Hierdie artikel probeer om dié leemte aan te spreek. Die studie het data van ʼn deursnitpeiling gebruik en die bevindinge toon dat, alhoewel petroleumfirmas beswaarlik innoverend was, hulle beter gevaar het in terme van die nie-tegnologiese fasette van innovasie.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentGraduate School of Technology Management (GSTM)en_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2019en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://sajie.journals.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBubou, G.M. & Amadi-Echendu, J.E. 2018, 'An assessment of the innovativeness of firms in Nigeria’s petroleum sector', South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 65-81.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1012-277X (print)
dc.identifier.issn2224-7890 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.7166/29-4-1881
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/70728
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSouthern African Institute for Industrial Engineeringen_ZA
dc.rights© 2019, South African Institute of Industrial Engineering. All rights reserved. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.en_ZA
dc.subjectInnovativenessen_ZA
dc.subjectFirmsen_ZA
dc.subjectGasolineen_ZA
dc.subjectTechnological aspectsen_ZA
dc.subjectPetroleum sectorsen_ZA
dc.subjectNigeriaen_ZA
dc.subjectKnowledge gapsen_ZA
dc.subjectIndustrial sectoren_ZA
dc.subjectCross-sectional surveysen_ZA
dc.subjectIndustrial managementen_ZA
dc.subjectIndustrial engineeringen_ZA
dc.titleAn assessment of the innovativeness of firms in Nigeria’s petroleum sectoren_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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