ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Built Environ.
Sec. Construction Management
Volume 11 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2025.1695401
Exporting Construction Services to West Africa: A Study of Nigerian Firms' Resources and Capabilities
Provisionally accepted
Sunday Julius Odediran1*
Grace Kehinde Ojo1Funmilola Ruth Oladunmoye2
Esther Adefunmilola Bayo-Adegoke1- 1Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria
- 2Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Nigeria
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The Nigerian construction industry has experienced significant growth in recent years, driven by government investments in infrastructures and a surge in private sector activities. This led to the emergence of construction organizations with enhanced capabilities, positioning them for expansion beyond the domestic market, hence this study. This paper examines the resources and capabilities of construction organizations in Nigeria to export their services across borders into West African countries with a view to minimizing economic loss in the region. With a quantitative research approach, a well-structured questionnaire was employed to collect data from 103 construction organizations including 8 architectural, 47 engineering, 9 estate surveying and valuation, 22 quantity surveying; and 17 contracting firms located in Lagos and Abuja. Data reported in this paper were analyzed using mean score, analysis of variance and factor analysis. The results revealed that the top ranked resources and capabilities ranked as significant requirement for exporting services into West African markets is business reputation and trust (M=4.04). This is followed by human capital (M=3.94), organizational and operational structure (M=3.94) and information about a market (M=3.87). The study concludes that reputation, trust, personnel, organization structure and market information are essential requirements for construction organizations to export services into the West African markets.
Keywords: resources, Capabilities, Construction organization, Export services, West African Markets
Received: 29 Aug 2025; Accepted: 13 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Odediran, Ojo, Oladunmoye and Bayo-Adegoke. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Sunday Julius Odediran, sjodediran@oauife.edu.ng
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