Global Journal of Management and Business Research, A: Administration and Management, Volume 22 Issue 7

© 2022. Blessing Obehi Ayemhere. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc- nd/4.0/. Global Journal of Management and Business Research: A Administration and Management Volume 22 Issue 7 Version 1.0 Year 2022 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-4588 & Print ISSN: 0975-5853 The Moderating Factor of Social Capital and Capability Development as Entrepreneurial Orientation Enablers for SMEs Business Performance in Nigeria By Blessing Obehi Ayemhere Abstract- Social capital and capability development have been determined as effective business orientation enablers in achieving good business performance. To understand the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on business performance, there were a number of findings that were recorded in this research based on the notable variables. Six hundred questionnaires were provided to SMEs in Nigeria where 67% of the population provided their honest and reliable opinion. Normality tests on the collected data were conducted by examining Kurtosis, Skewness, Shapiro- Wilk test and Komogorov-Smimov test. It is required that for normality condition to be met, the Sig. value of the Shapiro-Wilk and Kolmogorov-Smimov is expected to be greater than 0.05 and if less than 0.05, then the data significantly deviate from normal distribution. The result of this study shows that the Shapiro- Wilk and Kolmogorov-Smimov Test is less than 0.05, hence, the data is not normally distributed. According to Pallant (2013, p.59), the skewness value provides “an indication of the symmetry of distribution” while the kurtosis value provides “information about the “peakness” of the distribution”. Keywords: entrepreneurial orientation, social capital, capability development. GJMBR-A Classification: DDC Code: 302.4 LCC Code: HM741 TheModeratingFactorofSocialCapitalandCapabilityDevelopmentasEntrepreneurialOrientationEnablersforSMEsBusinessPerformanceinNigeria Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: