Ufua Daniel E, Olujobi Olusola J, Tahir Hammad, Al-Faryan Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh, Matthew Oluwatoyin A, Osabuohien Evans
Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research (CEPDeR), Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.
Department of Business Management, College of Management and Social Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.
Glob J Flex Syst Manag. 2022;23(3):331-344. doi: 10.1007/s40171-022-00304-1. Epub 2022 May 9.
This study investigates lean principles among Nigerian entrepreneurs and SME managers in the operational process in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. It offers the panacea to the challenge of social-economic shocks and their adverse effects on SMEs' business activities in Nigeria. The study adopts a conceptual approach to investigate lean entrepreneurship practice by SMEs in Nigeria. It relies on data from extant literature, using a conceptual approach to examine the social-economic effects of COVID-19 pandemic and critical environmental factors on the lean entrepreneurship practice in Nigeria. Furthermore, the study explores the influence of lean practice among SMEs and entrepreneurs in Nigeria and suggests a broad model for lean entrepreneurial practice in post-COVID-19 pandemic Nigeria. Findings highlight the broad social-economic effects of COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges such as theft, host community pressure, weak legal system, and inadequate government policy support affect lean entrepreneurship practice. These factors constitute complex operational issues that would require the adoption of a more comprehensive approach to address. It also highlights crucial factors for post-COVID-19 pandemic SMEs' operational success in Nigeria due to deficits in infrastructure and regulatory efficiency for SMEs' operations to address the various challenges of business failures in Nigeria. The study suggests a lean SME and Entrepreneurial Practice model in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era. It emphasises the need to refocus the active interest of the lean entrepreneur on critical business sustainability. The study recommends a critical review of the internal operational process among practicing entrepreneurial businesses and a re-modification of public policies system that governs the operational functions of entrepreneurial practices for reasonable and resilient post-COVID-19 pandemic entrepreneurship practices that can support the SMEs and economic growth in Nigeria.
本研究调查了尼日利亚企业家和中小企业管理者在尼日利亚新冠疫情后运营过程中的精益原则。它为社会经济冲击及其对尼日利亚中小企业商业活动的不利影响这一挑战提供了灵丹妙药。该研究采用概念性方法来调查尼日利亚中小企业的精益创业实践。它依赖现有文献的数据，运用概念性方法来审视新冠疫情的社会经济影响以及关键环境因素对尼日利亚精益创业实践的影响。此外，该研究探讨了精益实践在尼日利亚中小企业和企业家当中的影响，并为新冠疫情后尼日利亚的精益创业实践提出了一个宽泛的模型。研究结果凸显了新冠疫情的广泛社会经济影响以及其他挑战，如盗窃、所在社区的压力、薄弱的法律体系和政府政策支持不足等对精益创业实践的影响。这些因素构成了复杂的运营问题，需要采用更全面的方法来解决。研究还强调了由于基础设施不足和中小企业运营监管效率低下，新冠疫情后尼日利亚中小企业运营成功的关键因素，以应对尼日利亚商业失败的各种挑战。该研究提出了新冠疫情后时代的精益中小企业和创业实践模型。它强调需要将精益企业家的积极兴趣重新聚焦于关键的商业可持续性。该研究建议对从事创业业务的内部运营流程进行严格审查，并重新调整管理创业实践运营职能的公共政策体系，以实现合理且有韧性的新冠疫情后创业实践，从而支持尼日利亚的中小企业和经济增长。
