Synthesis of Top Management Team attributes and disaster – related Predictors of Innovation adoption in Nigeria’s SMEs

The purpose of this paper is to examine the imperativeness of synthesizing disaster related constructs with the traditional variables often studied in innovation adoption. To achieve this, the paper drew on upper echelon theory McEntire’s model. A conceptual model was proposed and relationships were establihed based on literature review. The literature supported the following claims made in the paper: there exist a relationship between external influences and the trategic stance of the firm on innovation adoption, internal features of Top Management Teams (TMT) are good determinants of TMT’s adoption behavior and there is significant retionship between external and internal environment of TMTs. The obvious contribution of the paper is the proposed framework that integrates disaster variables and TMTs adoption behavior. However, the paper is not without some shortcomings that will better be addressed through future empirical study.