STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN SOME NIGERIAN BUSINESSES A BUSINESS REALITY
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2007-10-01
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Business Administration Department, Nasarawa State University, Keffi
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In Nigeria the question of management concepts being successfully being transferred is no longer debatable. What most scholars and researchers are anxious about is whether by the use of these management concepts, Nigerian businesses are witnessing the benefits behind the persuasions for the use of such concepts. This paper examines one of such concepts strategic management, and establishes that companies that practice strategic management have a positive profit after tax situation to show for it, in spite of a hostile business environment. The paper recommends that one way to deal with a bleak business environment in view of challenges in Nigeria and beyond, is for businesses to practice strategic management as a fact not a Fad
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