Consultancy, Competitiveness, Innovation practices, Organisation

Abstract

The aim of this research is to assess the influence of firms’ ownership on the level of adoption of sustainability practices in Niger- Delta, Nigeria. Data were obtained through interviewees and 1179 copies of structured questionnaire, administered by the researcher and research assistants. The methods of data analysis were simple percentage and spearman rank correlation. The result shows that the locally owned construction firms account for 96.4% of the total number of firms considered in this study while the foreign owned firms account for 3.6% of the total number construction firms studied. The results further revealed that foreign owned firms adopted sustainability practices more than the local firms in Niger Delta, Nigeria. The P-values less than 0.05 significant level, show that firms’ ownership influences the level of adoption of firms’ sustainability practices in the study area. Hence, this study concluded that firms’ ownership has significant influence on the level of adoption of sustainability practices among the construction firms in Niger Delta and can be used as control variable in the adoption of sustainability practices among construction firms. This study recommends that locally owned construction firms should improve their level of adoption of sustainability practices in Niger- Delta, Nigeria.