Corporate Governance and Productivity in Nigerian Manufacturing Industries

2013

Given the role of manufacturing industries as the engine of economic growth and development on one hand and the current downturn in industrial production, this study was designed to explore the economic rejuvenating capacity of corporate governance. It also examined the individual and collective roles of management structure and corporate governance in enhanced industrial productivity in Nigeria. One hundred and nineteen manufacturing firms were selected by systematic random sampling from the 471 firms existing in Oyo state, the industrial hub of southwestern Nigeria. The actual participants were selected by purposive sampling from top management, middle level and junior staff cadres who mu…