THE EFFECT OF CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA FLOUR MILLS KANO STATE NIGERIA

ABSTRACT An entrepreneurial climate that promotes the detection and facilitation of opportunities, as well as fostering motivation to pursue opportunities, provides an ideology to which employees can commit while facilitating the emergence of social capital. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of corporate entrepreneurship on organizational performance in Northern Nigeria Flour Mills Kano State Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was used while a sample size of one hundred and eighty one (181) employees of Northern Nigeria Flour Mills was drawn through the use of simple random sampling out of the employees of Northern Nigeria Flour Mills PLC in Kano State, Nigeria, that constituted the study population. Probability sampling technique was used which involve simple random. Closed-ended questionnaire served as method of data collection for the study and Regression analysis was used to analyse the collected data through Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21. Face validity and reliability tests were conducted. The overall results of this study revealed that innovativeness and risk taking have negative and insignificant effect (= -0.012, Sig 0.780 and -0.071, Sig 0.378 respectively) while pro-activeness has positive and significant effect (=0.896; Sig 0.000) on organizational performance in Northern Nigeria Flour Mills Kano State, Nigeria. Future researchers should expand the scope of the study to more than one organization.