SOURCE:

Faculty: Management Sciences
Department: Marketing

CONTRIBUTORS:

Iweama, V. O.
Nkamnebe, A. D

ABSTRACT:

This study examined the determinants of informal non-oil exporting behaviour in selected border markets in Nigeria. It was rooted and guided by pragmatic research philosophy and used mixed method in data collection. The population of the study was all informal non-oil exporters in the nation’s selected border markets while a sample size of 384 was determined using unknown population. Informal non-oil export opinion leaders were interviewed and analyzed using mean and standard deviation. Pearson correlation was used to test for discriminant validity with a highest correlation of .501, while factor analysis test of not less than .4 communalities show that no item of the variables need to be eliminated or removed. A one-way between-groups multivariate analysis of variance was performed to investigate education differences in informal non-oil exporting behaviour. Four independent variables were used: satisfaction of basic needs, regulation of formal export, activities of government officials and desire to own a business. The dependent variable was the informal non-oil exporting behavior. There was no statistically significant difference between the independent variables, F(6, 98) = 1.32, sig. = .166; Wilk’s Lambda = .92; partial eta = .027. When the results of the independent variables were considered separately, the only difference to reach a statistical significance using the Bonferroni and Scheffe post-hoc tests is the satisfaction of basic needs, F(3, 25.4) = 3.31; sig. = .021; partial eta = .033. The four hypotheses formulated for the study were analysed using Kendall’s Coefficient of Concordance and they were all statistically significant. This means that all the four variables: satisfaction of basic needs, regulation of formal export, activities of government officials and desire to own a business promote involvement in informal non-oil exporting in Nigeria. Recommendations were made that government should address unemployment, monitor the activities of export and border officials, motivate and discipline them where necessary among others. The extent of over regulation as well as areas that are over regulated in formal export were recommended as areas for further research.