Small businesses are recognized worldwide as a catalyst of socioeconomic development. Like all developed and developing countries, due to the economic importance of SMEs, the federal government of Nigeria is developing policies and strategies to diversify its economy from total dependence on...

The study is deduced from a Ph.D. thesis investigating the critical success factors influencing SMEs in Jigawa State, Nigeria. Over twenty-one, critical success factors were identified in the literature review as influencing the success of SMEs across many locations and industries, and seven...

Nigeria's federal government, after the oil boom of the 1970s, created policies, including the SMEDAN initiative, to trigger socio-economic development through entrepreneurship and small business development. Notwithstanding the importance of SMEs' socio-economic development and the Nigerian...