Igbo Apprenticeship Practice: Resilience Vehicle for Venture Creation in Southeastern Nigeria

Friday, Ogbu Edeh and Blessing, Friday Edeh and Neji, Desmond Oben and Collins Irem, Okechukwu and Onah, Gladys Owere and Prince, Alamina Ule (2025) Igbo Apprenticeship Practice: Resilience Vehicle for Venture Creation in Southeastern Nigeria. Journal of Business and Social Sciences, 2025 (02). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2805-5187

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Abstract

In the quest to generate wealth that could salvage the ravaging poverty after the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War, the Igbo-speaking people of southeastern Nigeria birthed apprenticeship practice which has until this day become a norm in the region. It was based on the relevance of this entrepreneurial spirit of the Igbo people and how they have consistently embraced apprenticeship culture to reduce unemployment and create new businesses across the Nigerian space that motivated the researchers to carry out this investigation with 204 mentors (Oga’s) that passed through the apprenticeship practice before establishing their businesses. The purpose of this investigation is to examine the relationship between Igbo apprenticeship practice and venture creation in Southeastern Nigeria. The theories that explained Igbo apprenticeship practice are social learning theory and Igwebuike theory. Descriptive statistics and regression were used to analysed the data. The study found that Igbo apprentice practice has a significant positive relationship with venture creation and job creation in the southeastern region of Nigeria

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Apprenticeship, Igbo apprenticeship, Igba-Boi, venture creation, social learning, resilience, Igwebuike
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Depositing User:	Unnamed user with email masilah.mansor@newinti.edu.my
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2025 10:01
Last Modified:	22 Aug 2025 10:01
URI:	http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/id/eprint/2166

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