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Abstract
This study examined the relationship between demographic characteristics and entrepreneurial success of information technology enterprises in Port Harcourt that are registered with the Port Harcourt chamber of commerce. The two dimensions of demographic characteristics namely age and sex informed the two research objectives, questions and hypotheses. Our sample size of 86 was drawn from our population size of 112 using the Krejcie & Morgan. Regression analysis was employed to analyze the 75 copies of the questionnaire that was returned with the aid of SPSS, which lead to the conclusion that certain demographic characteristics such as age and sex tend to determine the successes of information and technology enterprises in Port Harcourt as it define the level of agility of SME operators and translate into the successes of the firm. It is therefore recommended that: Operators of information and technology enterprises should consider age when hiring employees as younger employees would bring about success of the enterprise. Operators of information and technology enterprises River State should consider sex when employing as gender of the employee can bring about more patronage for the enterprise.
Keywords
TDemographic characteristics
Entrepreneurial Success
Information Technology Enterprises.