ABSTRACT
One of the major economic backwardness of the most third world countries like Nigeria is the over prolonged sojourn of private foreign divestment in them. The predatory exploitative orientation and activities of foreign monopoly capital, it inherent tendency to resist and hamper local industrialization and to perpetuate merchant capitalism and its determination and deliberate efforts to retard the growth of endogamous entrepreneurship all this have heavily influenced Nigeria economic history for well over a century. This foreign dominance of commercial activities in Nigeria was made possible by restrictive practices employed by the established merchant firms. It is important to note that commercial banking is a major source of credit (capital) was solely owned and controlled by foreign elements. Their policies were made towards satisfying the needs of foreign enterprise, indigenous entrepreneurs merely subjected on the crumbs that fell on the gable. (Ezeigwe .J. O) Nigerian government in the 1950s operated mainly an open door policy which
attempted to live foreign investors into the country.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1.6 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
1.7 STATEMENT OF HYPOTHESIS
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
2.1 INTRODUCTION
2.2 BRIEF ON THE EMERGENCE OF INDIGENOUS COMPANIES IN NIGERIA
2.3 CHALLENGES OF INDIGENOUS COMPANIES IN NIGERIA
2.5 CURRENT INITIATIVES FOR IMPROVING THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT OF INDIGENOUS COMPANIES.
2.6 IMPACT OF INDIGENOUS COMPANIES ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
2.7 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
2.8 THEORETICAL BASES FOR THE STUDY
2.9 CHAPTER SUMMARY
REFERENCE
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 STUDY AREA
3.3 RESEARCH DESIGN
3.4 METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION
3.5 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS
3.6 SAMPLE SIZE AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUE
3.7 POPULATION OF THE STUDY
3.8 PILOT STUDY
3.9 LIMITATIONS OF THE METHODOLOGY
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
4.0 INTRODUCTION
4.1 DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
4.2 TEST OF HYPOTHESIS
4.3 MAJOR FINDINGS
4.4 RESULT AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
5.2 CONCLUSION
5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS
5.4 CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE
5.5 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX
SECTION A