An assessment of the impact of entrepreneurial skills of community pharmacists on pharmaceutical business performance in Jos metropolis, Nigeria
| Autor: | Iyeseun O. Asieba, Teresa M. Nmadu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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mesh:Nigeria
Typology Net profit Entrepreneurship lcsh:RS1-441 Pharmaceutical Science Nigeria Pharmacy Community Pharmacy Services Pharmacists lcsh:Pharmacy and materia medica mesh:Community Pharmacy Services mesh:Entrepreneurship Surveys and Questionnaires 0502 economics and business mesh:Pharmacists Small Business Marketing Stock (geology) Original Research Pharmacies Community pharmacies 050208 finance business.industry lcsh:RM1-950 mesh:Pharmacies 05 social sciences 050201 accounting Small business lcsh:Therapeutics. Pharmacology Community pharmacist mesh:Surveys and Questionnaires Business mesh:Small Business |
| Zdroj: | Pharmacy Practice (Granada) v.16 n.1 2018 SciELO España. Revistas Científicas Españolas de Ciencias de la Salud instname Pharmacy Practice (Granada), Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Article number: 1110, Published: MAR 2018 Pharmacy Practice Pharmacy Practice, Vol 16, Iss 1, p 1110 (2018) |
| Popis: | Background: Community pharmacy has been a lucrative area of practice for pharmacists in Jos, Nigeria, until about the turn of the millennium where a decline in viability of the business has been observed. Objective: This study assessed the entrepreneurial skills of community pharmacists, the business performance of community pharmacies and the impact of their entrepreneurial skills on business performance. Methods: A cross sectional survey was conducted by administering a pretested questionnaire to 30 community pharmacists in Jos. An adaptation of the Bernelli model and the expanded Katz (1974)/Herron (1990) Skill Typology Model was used to assess nine entrepreneurial skills - product, organizational, industry, networking, leadership, executive, entrepreneurial, marketing and money skills; while sales growth, net profit and stock growth were used to assess business performance. Frequency distribution of results was presented, with further analysis done with the Epi-Info software using the chi square test of association. Result: The results from this study showed that community pharmacies in Jos do possess requisite entrepreneurial skills, but to varying extents. Product skills ranked highest while money skills and entrepreneurial skills ranked least, portraying a need for skills enhancement in these areas. Business performance was suboptimal, being rated as average or poor by 56.6% of respondents. However, most respondents (90%) still assessed their businesses as profitable. Money skills had a significant impact on business performance (P=0.03) and stock growth (P=0.04); while stock growth was significantly affected by leadership skills (P=0.002) and entrepreneurial skills (0.02). Net profit was significantly affected by industry skills (P=0.008). Conclusions: Community pharmacy business is still a profitable business venture in Jos though business performance is sub optimal. The entrepreneurial skills set of a community pharmacist set has an impact on business performance with money skills, leadership skills and entrepreneurial skills being most significant. This study recommended that entrepreneurial skills of community pharmacists in Nigeria are further developed to improve pharmaceutical business performance. |
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