Influence of Business-Aided Technologies on Economic Sustainability among Entrepreneurs in Bwari Area Council, FCT-Abuja, Nigeria
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Business-Aided Technologies, business educators, economic sustainability, point of sale, unstructured supplementary service data.Abstract
This study assessed the Influence of Business-Aided Technologies on Economic sustainability among Entrepreneurs in Bwari Area Council, FCT-Abuja. The study had two specific objectives, two research questions and two null hypotheses. The study adopted the quantitative descriptive survey design. The sample comprised of 200 entrepreneurs who were selected using purposive sampling technique. The instrument used for collection of data was a structured questionnaire titled “Influence of Business-Aided Technologies on Economic Sustainability Questionnaire (IBATESQ)”. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the null hypotheses were tested using simple regression at 0.05 level of significance. All the hypotheses were rejected because their calculated p-values were less than the level of significance of 0.05. The findings of the study revealed that point of sale (POS) and unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) had significant influence on economic sustainability among entrepreneurs in Bwari Area Council, FCT-Abuja. Based on the findings, it was recommended that Business Educators as well as technologists should create more awareness on the use of business-aided technologies such as POS and USSD; in order to ensure convenient and real time business transactions and Telecommunications Service Providers should improve network coverage in Bwari Area Council in order to reduce transaction failure and delay; associated with POS and USSD.
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