Effect of Corporate Entrepreneurship on Organizational Performance at United Africa Company of Nigeria

The study examines the effect of corporate entrepreneurship on organizational performance at United Africa Company of Nigeria. The study applied survey design. The data used for the study was quantitative. The population of the study was 1339 drawn from United African Company of Nigerian Plc. The sample size was 307; which was determined by using Yamane (1964) model. The study used primary data (questionnaire). The questionnaire was structured with most questions closed and a few open-ended covering issues on strategy implementation and corporate entrepreneurship growth. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyze the data using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25. Frequencies were used to measure and compare the outcomes. The findings revealed that innovativeness, proactiveness, risk tolerance, strategic renewal and corporate venturing have effect on the employee satisfaction at United Africa Company of Nigeria. The study concludes that corporate entrepreneurship has significant effect on organizational performance at United Africa Company of Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommends that United Africa Company of Nigeria should create enabling environment for the management to be innovative in their operations in order to take its competitive advantage through creation of innovative services leading to increased employee performance and growth of their organization.