Igbo Apprenticeship Practice: Resilience Vehicle for Venture Creation in Southeastern Nigeria
In the quest to generate wealth that could salvage the ravaging poverty after the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War, the Igbo-speaking people of southeastern Nigeria birthed apprenticeship practice which has until this day become a norm in the region. It was based on the relevance of this entrepreneurial spi...
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| author | Friday, Ogbu Edeh Blessing, Friday Edeh Neji, Desmond Oben Collins Irem, Okechukwu Onah, Gladys Owere Prince, Alamina Ule |
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| description | In the quest to generate wealth that could salvage the ravaging poverty after the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War, the Igbo-speaking people of southeastern Nigeria birthed apprenticeship practice which has until this day become a norm in the region. It was based on the relevance of this entrepreneurial spirit of the Igbo people and how they have consistently embraced apprenticeship culture to reduce unemployment and create new businesses across the Nigerian space that motivated the researchers to carry out this investigation with 204 mentors (Oga’s) that passed through the apprenticeship practice before establishing their businesses. The purpose of this investigation is to examine the relationship between Igbo apprenticeship practice and venture creation in Southeastern Nigeria. The theories that explained Igbo apprenticeship practice are social learning theory and Igwebuike theory. Descriptive statistics and regression were used to analysed the data. The study found that Igbo apprentice practice has a significant positive relationship with venture creation and job creation in the southeastern region of Nigeria |
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| spelling | intimal-21662025-08-22T10:01:42Z http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/2166/ Igbo Apprenticeship Practice: Resilience Vehicle for Venture Creation in Southeastern Nigeria Friday, Ogbu Edeh Blessing, Friday Edeh Neji, Desmond Oben Collins Irem, Okechukwu Onah, Gladys Owere Prince, Alamina Ule H Social Sciences (General) HD28 Management. Industrial Management HM Sociology In the quest to generate wealth that could salvage the ravaging poverty after the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War, the Igbo-speaking people of southeastern Nigeria birthed apprenticeship practice which has until this day become a norm in the region. It was based on the relevance of this entrepreneurial spirit of the Igbo people and how they have consistently embraced apprenticeship culture to reduce unemployment and create new businesses across the Nigerian space that motivated the researchers to carry out this investigation with 204 mentors (Oga’s) that passed through the apprenticeship practice before establishing their businesses. The purpose of this investigation is to examine the relationship between Igbo apprenticeship practice and venture creation in Southeastern Nigeria. The theories that explained Igbo apprenticeship practice are social learning theory and Igwebuike theory. Descriptive statistics and regression were used to analysed the data. The study found that Igbo apprentice practice has a significant positive relationship with venture creation and job creation in the southeastern region of Nigeria INTI International University 2025-08 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_4 http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/2166/1/jobss2025_2.pdf text en cc_by_4 http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/2166/2/713 Friday, Ogbu Edeh and Blessing, Friday Edeh and Neji, Desmond Oben and Collins Irem, Okechukwu and Onah, Gladys Owere and Prince, Alamina Ule (2025) Igbo Apprenticeship Practice: Resilience Vehicle for Venture Creation in Southeastern Nigeria. Journal of Business and Social Sciences, 2025 (02). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2805-5187 http://ipublishing.intimal.edu.my/jobss.html |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences (General) HD28 Management. Industrial Management HM Sociology Friday, Ogbu Edeh Blessing, Friday Edeh Neji, Desmond Oben Collins Irem, Okechukwu Onah, Gladys Owere Prince, Alamina Ule Igbo Apprenticeship Practice: Resilience Vehicle for Venture Creation in Southeastern Nigeria |
| title | Igbo Apprenticeship Practice: Resilience Vehicle for Venture Creation in Southeastern Nigeria |
| title_full | Igbo Apprenticeship Practice: Resilience Vehicle for Venture Creation in Southeastern Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Igbo Apprenticeship Practice: Resilience Vehicle for Venture Creation in Southeastern Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Igbo Apprenticeship Practice: Resilience Vehicle for Venture Creation in Southeastern Nigeria |
| title_short | Igbo Apprenticeship Practice: Resilience Vehicle for Venture Creation in Southeastern Nigeria |
| title_sort | igbo apprenticeship practice: resilience vehicle for venture creation in southeastern nigeria |
| topic | H Social Sciences (General) HD28 Management. Industrial Management HM Sociology |
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