Business education is vital for success in virtually every career. All citizens must apply business skillsand concepts to meet the challenges of a changing society and workplace (Smith, 2006).Business instruction is organized to prepare individuals for occupations in administrative officesystems, accounting and finance, management, and computer information systems. It is the enterpriseof education directed at the study and research of the field of business. It includes secondary educationand higher education or university education, with the greatest activity in the latter. It is often or almostalways oriented toward preparing students for the practice of an occupation in business or business-relatedfields. It can be studied to degree level relating to teaching business in schools or universitieshowever a teaching qualification is essential afterwards. If one doesn’t want to go into teaching it canbe useful when going into management or the business sector.
This paper examines the effects of ICT access on the profitability levels of informal micro and small business enterprises in Nigerian. For formal sector organisations, studies have been conducted to verify this, but not much is known with respect to micro and small informal sector businesses. This study therefore intends to bridge this gap by carrying out an analysis of the effect of the access to mobile phone (a major component of ICTs that is fast finding common usage among informal sector enterprise-owners) on profitability level of informal micro and small businesses in Nigeria. The study relies on primary data on the informal sector enterprises collected by the Nigerian Institute for Social and Economic Research (NISER) in 2014. Basic descriptive statistics in addition to the Logit Regression model is used in the analyses of the data. Policy measures that will enhance further diffusion of ICT infrastructure among micro and small business to enhance their profitability are recommended at the end of the paper. keywords: information & communication technology access, informal micro and small enterprises, profitability, nigeria.
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