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The extent to which environmental factors affect small and medium and enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets has been controversial in recent time. Also, the internationalization of businesses appear to achieve advance reckoning as a result of the influence of globalization on most national economies giving rise to decrease in environmental barriers and government-imposed barriers due to continuous improvement in technology. The population of the study consisted of randomly selected employees of selected manufacturing and services SMEs, in Nigeria. A total sample of 334 respondents was considered through the administration of a structured questionnaire. The statistical tools included multiple regression and correlation analysis through the SPSS computer packages. The results showed that foreign legal systems (FLS), has significant relationship on the businesses' survival rate (at P =0.00). It was also found out that cultural differences (CD) has significant relationship with business sales (at P=0.00). Hence, the study recommends that Businesses must ensure they carry-out proper environmental analysis before entering the international market as this will help in identifying critical issues that needs to be solved before eventually entering the international market that is even more competitive than the local market.

It is generally recognized that there is diversity in the workforce of any enterprise, be it business, government, or civil society. This study therefore seeks to find out the effect of workforce diversity towards employee performance in Stallion Group of Companies. The Study adopted a descriptive and explanatory research design .The study population consisted of all staff of Stallion group Ltd. sample size of 80 respondents was selected and data collection method was applied by use of questionnaire, where by analysis of descriptive and inferential statistics of SPSS version 20.0 was adopted. The Pearson's correlation coefficient signifies, there is a relationship between each independent variables and the dependent variable and tested at 1% significance level. It also revealed that gender; age, ethnicity and educational background are positively correlated and the strength of the relationship is small but definite relationship to employee performance. The regression analysis shows that, the R2 figure of the four independent variables is 0.211. These also mean that independent variables (gender, age, ethnicity and educational background) can explain only 21.1% of the variation in dependent variable (employee performance). However, it still leaves 78.9% unexplained in this research. In other words, there are other additional variables that are important in explaining employee performance that have not been considered in this research. It is recommended that company managements must use good strategies to effectively manage workforce diversity and collaborative research efforts should be done to ascertain the contextual variables that moderate workforce diversity to produce positive performance outcomes

Research on the political risk and entry mode of multinational companies (MNCs) has been one of the major subjects of interest in international business terrain, and the political risk factor has constitute a major basis for explaining whether exporting, licensing, franchising, or joint venture agreement (JVA) and Foreign direct investment seems to be appropriate. As such, the study examined the effect of political risk as it affects the entry mode strategies of selected multinational corporations in Nigeria as the economy of most developing economies has been characterized as being exposed to political instability and risk. The research adopted the survey technique with inference to the expo facto method and adopted questionnaire as an instrument through content and test re-test appraisal before data were analyzed through the IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. The results from the analysis indicated that franchising remains a viable option of multinationals in Nigeria and the second hypothesis indicated that licensing significantly reduces the risk exposure of multinational corporations as the licensor have lesser liability in an unstable political economy of the licensee. Based on these findings companies are recommended to adopt appropriate entry strategies in line with governmental policies and economic situation before entering foreign markets. JEL CODES: M1, M10