Environmental Factorsand EntrepreneurshipDevelopment

Entrepreneurship supports economic growth and development through marketinnovations and there is a bi-directional relationship between entrepreneurship andeconomic growth and development. Key constraints include the cost of starting abusiness and minimum paid-in capital requirements, with women entrepreneurs facingadditional hurdles. Moreover, most of Africa’s entrepreneurs are “necessity driven”rather than “opportunity-driven”. Environmental factors in business are the conditionsthat exist in a business environment. The major environmental factors in business aretechnological factors, economic factors, social factors, political factors, and culturalfactors.This book brings together, the ideas of different Scholars, Practitioners, and Authoritiesconcerning the subject maer, Environmental Factors and EntrepreneurshipDevelopment. There are 13 chapters which were jointly contributed by 25 scholars in thefield with the range of title such as Corporate Social Responsibility and OrganizationalSurvival; Environmental Factors and Performance of Small-Scale Businesses in ShomoluLocal Government, Lagos; Government Policies and Entrepreneurial Development inNigeria; Organizational Culture and Business Performance in the Nigerian ServiceSector; Sustainability of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Nigeria: The Role ofGovernment Policies; Role of Entrepreneurship in Achieving Economic Growth inNigeria; Impact of Macroeconomics Fluctuation on the Growth of Small and MediumScale Businesses in Nigeria; Workforce Diversity and Organisational Productivity inUnilever; Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development in Nigeria; GreenMarketing and Environmental Degradation in Lagos State, Nigeria; EnvironmentalFactors and Entrepreneurship Development in Nigeria; Significance of Interest Rate inBolstering Business Development in Nigeria; and Corporate Social Responsibility onBusiness Growth in Business Environment. This edited book is an addition to thefrontiers of knowledge in business and entrepreneurship. Scholars, Practitioners, andAuthorities will find the contents useful, and it is also recommended for all postgraduatestudents in the field of business and entrepreneurship.Associate Professor Joshua Adewale AdejuwonProfessor Godwin Emmanuel Oyedokun