dc.contributor.author | Kihara, Allan | |
dc.contributor.author | Karanja, Partrick | |
dc.contributor.author | Ogollah, Kennedy | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-22T10:29:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-22T10:29:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Kihara, A., Karanja, P., Kennedy, O., (2016) Influen ce o f Strategic Con tingent Organizational Factors on Performance of Large Manufacturing Firms i n Kenya . International Journal of Strategic M anagement and Current Business Studies . Vol. 5 (1). 35 – 49 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://profiles.uonbi.ac.ke/kogollah/files/allan_kihara_karanja_and_ogollah_2016.pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/100692 | |
dc.description.abstract | Even though Kenya has been praised for its
robust economy and that is set to become one of the
top five fastest
-
growing in sub
-
Saharan Africa, manufacturing output remains low compared to
other sectors.
Kenyan manufacturers have registered stagnation and declining profits of
over $330
million annua
lly and government loses of $67 million in potential tax revenue
for the last five
years due to contingencies
. It is estimated that manufacturing companies have lost 70 per cent of
their market share in East Africa and this has resulted in some
firms annou
ncing plans to shut down
their plants and shift operations to Egypt.
The general objective of the study was to establish the
influence of strategic contingent organizational factors on performance of large manufacturing
firms in Kenya by reviewing
organiza
tional
structure
as the study variable
with legal and
regulatory environment
as the moderating effect. The study adopted a mixed research design of
cross
-
sectional research design and descriptive survey design and the research philosophy was
positivism. Th
e study population study was 499 large scale manufacturing companies with a
sample size of 217 managers from each of the 217 companies. Data was collected through the
administration of questionnaires to the relevant managers.
The findings of the study reve
aled that
majority of the companies had
a written down IT policy, high rate of both IT software and hardware
adoption in their companies and also train to sharpen their IT skills. The findings also indicated
that
IT hardware adoption, IT software adoption
and training employees to sharpen their IT skills
are positively and significantly related with ROE. The findings of the study also revealed that written down IT policy, IT software adoption and training employees to sharpen their IT skills was
positively
and significantly related to profit before tax while IT hardware adoption , IT software
adoption and training employees to sharpen their IT skills had a positive and significant
relationship with ROA.
The study concluded that information technology
has sig
nificant effect on
performance
of large
manufacturing
firms
in Kenya
.
The sub
-
constructs of information technology
that is
written down IT policy, rate of both IT software and hardware adoption and sharpen of IT
skills influence performance positively.
The
study recommended that large manufacturing firms in
Kenya should have an improved information technology system
as it leads to better performance.
The firms should have written
down IT policy, high rate of both IT software and hardware adoption
and frequen
tly sharpen IT skills of the employees through training. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | Strategic contingent , Information technology , organizational factors , Large manufacturing firms , performance , Kenya . | en_US |
dc.title | Influence of strategic contingent organizational factors on performance of large manufacturing firms in Kenya | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |