COMPETITIVE AGGRESSIVENESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE IN MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION FIRMS IN RIVERS STATE
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https://doi.org/10.47672/ije.410Keywords:
Competitive Aggressiveness, Organizational Resilience, Adaptive Capacity, Situation Awareness, Vulnerability ResponseAbstract
The study examined the relationship between competitive aggressiveness and organizational resilience in mobile telecommunication firms in Rivers State. The methodology is quantitative and the research design is the cross-sectional survey. The population of the study are the regional offices or Mega Centres of four major communication firms identified in this study, namely: MTN Nigeria, GLOBACOM Nigeria, AIRTE Nigeria L, and 9Mobile Nigeria. A total of 177 senior staff (managerial and supervisory) was identified through personal visits and inquiry from these offices and centres. The sample size of 123 was determined using the Krejcie & Morgan (1970) sample size determination table. The hypotheses were tested using the Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Coefficient with the aid of the SPSS version 23 package for the bivariate relationship between employee competitive aggressiveness and the measures of organizational resilience at a 0.05 level of significance. The results from the analysis reveal that innovativeness influences significantly the measures of organizational resilience. The study recommends that management should adopt competitive aggressive systems that are sustainable in the long run. Their structures and market advances through innovation and pro-activeness should not wear them out but should be sustainable and efficientDownloads
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