IMBIBING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR: UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS STRATEGY FOR ADDITIONAL FUND GENERATION IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN CROSS RIVER STATE

Abstract

The study investigated the entrepreneurial behaviour that could be imbibed by University 
administrators for additional fund generation in Public Universities in Cross River State. Survey 
research design was adopted for the study. One research question and two hypothesis guided the 
study. The population of the study comprised 32 university administrators made up of 28 Dean of 
Faculties (20 from University of Calabar, 8 from University of Cross River State), 2 Deputy Vice 
Chancellors administration and 2 deputy bursars (1 each from both universities). The 32 university 
administrators were all involved in the study as there was no sampling technique since the population 
is small and manageable. 20 item likert type questionnaire titled “entrepreneurial behaviour and 
additional fund generation questionnaire” (EBAFGQ) was the instrument used for data collection. The 
instrument yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.88 in Cronbach alpha test. Mean scores and t-test 
statistics were used for data analysis. The findings of the study revealed that the entrepreneurial 
behaviour to be adopted by university administrators are creativity, innovativeness, opportunity 
identification, opportunity exploration, risk taking, information exploration, visionary and flexibility. 
The study also revealed that there is no significant difference in the perception of administrators of 
unical (a federal university) and Unicross (a state university) on the entrepreneurial behaviour to be 
imbibed by university administrators. There is also no significant difference in the perception of 
administrators of UNICAL and UNICROSS on the extent to which imbibing entrepreneurial 
behaviour could lead to additional fund generation in public universities in Cross River State. Based 
on the findings it was recommended among others that university administrator should religiously 
imbibe the entrepreneurial behaviour put forward in the study to enhance their institutions financial 
base