A Study of Technological Alliance and Performance of Indigenous Bakery Industry in Osun State, Nigeria

The paper examines the technological alliance and performance of indigenous bakery industry in Osun State, Nigeria. The primary data were collected using structured questionnaires from indigenous bakeries in three cities (Ile-Ife, Ilesa and Osogbo) of Osun State. The second stage of selection used snowball sampling techniques to select the owners or managers of 120 bakeries in the selected town. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results show that 83.3% of the respondents engaged in alliances with people of related businesses. Many of the respondents (41.7%) had collaborations with a particular supplier of the raw materials they use in baking while the remaining had business arrangements with research institutes and sales agents. The result from the regression analysis shows that the value of R is 0.851 which is the correlation of the independent variable with the dependent variable. R Square (R 2 = 0.724) is the coefficient of determination. It means that about 72.4% of the variation in bakery performance can be explained by technology alliance. The Analysis of Variation (ANOVA) outcome with F value = 1.317, p-value = sig value = 0.026 which is less than 0.05 (p <0.05), confirm the regression analysis result that technology alliance is significant to performance of bakery industry. The paper concludes that the indigenous bakeries in the study area entered into alliances with suppliers of raw materials, research institutes, people in related businesses and entities outside the supply chain and the alliances led to minimization of costs, maximization ofoutputs, efficient productions and increase in sales of the enterprises.