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Innovations and Sustainable Competitive Advantage Among Fast Food Restaurants in Rivers State Nigeria

Obiageri Felicitas Onwuegbule, Udoka Stephen Otika, Akalazu Emmanuel Chinonye PhD, Chukwuemeka Onyeagwara

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between Innovation and sustainable competitive Advantage of fast Food Restaurants in Port-Harcourt cross sectional research design was adopted .The population of these study was 126 Fast Food Restaurant Managers in the university of port Harcourt Environs and around Choba axis of River State.The sampling technique used in this study was the census technique. Copies of Questionnaire were used in gathering data from respondents. The Retrieved questionnaires used for analysis were 86copies.The analysis technique used in this study was the Kendall’s tau correlation coefficient. The result of the study shows that Innovation in terms of Product innovation and market innovation has a positive and significant relationship with sustainable competitive advantage. It was thus concluded that an enhancement in the quality of product and market innovation will lead to a sustainable competitive advantage of fastfood Restaurants in Rivers State. Hence, among others, it was recommended that theFast Food Restaurant Managers should be innovative in their product and Market to attain sustainable competitive Advantages.. These study contributed to knowledge through its empirical findings, theoretical and conceptual framework as regards to innovation and sustainable competitive advantage in a fast food industry.

Keywords

Product Innovationmarket innovationsustainable competitive advantage (SCA)Fast food Restaurant

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