Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Law, Business Mgt (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Factors influencing development of the corporate bond market in Kenya
(Business Administration, 2003)"Technology is reshaping economies and transforming business and consumers. This is about more than e-commerce, or e-mail, or etrades. It is about the "e" in the economic opportunity" - William Daley This study ... -
Perception Of Medical Doctors Towards Personal Selling Practices Of Medical Representatives Of Pharmaceutical Firms In Nairobi
(University of NairobiFaculty of Commerce, 2003-09)This study sort to investigate the perception of medical doctors towards personal selling practices of medical representatives of pharmaceutical firms in Nairobi. To achieve this, doctors were asked if they agreed or ... -
Factors influencing pensions sector development In Kenya
(University of NairobiSchool of Business,, 2008)The primary objective of this study was to investigate the factors that influence pension sector development in Kenya . The rationale of the study arose from the fact that retirees in Kenya ... -
Retailer brands and channel Conflict: the case of Supermarkets in Nairobi
(Business Administration, 2003)This Study was done between the months of July and September 2003, with the objectives of establishing the impact of introduction of own brands (or retailer brands) by supermarkets in Nairobi on the levels of conflicts ... -
The extent of use of financial statement analysis in corporate lending: A survey of commercial banks in Kenya
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2008)The way lending decisions by commercial banks in Kenya is made remains a mystery to most borrowers. Banks are known to follow very stringent rules in lending risk appraisal. Financial statements analysis on the borrower ... -
The relationship between financial structure and performance of micro and small enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya.
(Business Administration, 2)Interest in the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (MSEs) in the development process continues to be in the forefront of policy debates in developing countries and considerable attention has been paid in the last ... -
Strategic Responses By NSSF To Changing Environmental Conditions In Kenya
(University of NairobiSchool of Business,, 2008)The National Social Security fund was established in 1965 by an act of Parliament (Cap. 258 Laws of Kenya). The Fund was set up primarily to provide Financial Security to Kenyan workers in their old age. Initially ... -
Strategic alliances among development NGOs in Kenya
(University of NairobiSchool of Business, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005)The objectives of this study were to determine the extent to which strategic alliances are being formed in development Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Kenya, determine factors driving NGOs towards strategic ... -
Socio-economic Characteristics and the Performance of Women- Owned Enterprises in Mumias Town
(University of Nairobi,, 2003)This study examines how socio-economic characteristics affect the performance of women owned enterprises in Mumias town. This study builds upon the premise that differences in socio- economic characteristics affects ... -
Strategies employed in the transformation of Njiwa cooperative sacco limited in Kenya from small scale to medium scale enterprise
(School of business,University of Nairobi, 2009)Most small enterprises tend to remain at the same level for a long time and while most of them close down before they move to the next level. In order to achieve this, there is need to determine the strategies to be ... -
Factors Influencing Strategy Implementation By International NGOs Operating In Kenya
(University of NairobiFaculty of Commerce, 2004-11)Strategy implementation IS the process of transforming strategic intentions into actions. It is the most vital phases in the decision making process; embracing all the actions necessary to put the strategy into practice. ... -
The Perceived Effect of East African Community Customs Union on the Food and Beverage Manufacturers in Kenya
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2005-10)Negotiations to set up a Customs Union for East African Countries namely Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda began in 2000 after the collapse of the original Community in 1977. The former Community collapsed mainly due to ... -
Turn of the month and January effects on Stock prices at Nairobi stock exchange
(Business Administration, 2003)This paper examined the turn-of-the-month and January effects at Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) during the period July 1995 through June 2003. Using the NSE daily closing prices, average daily returns were computed by ... -
Response of safaricom Kenya ltd to the challenges of globalization
(School of business,University of Nairobi, 2009)Rapid globalization is one of the most salient aspects of the new millennium owing to the fast development of Information Technology (IT) in the last two decades (Brown, 1999). To different observers, different types of ... -
A study on effectiveness of guarantorship in loans recovery in co-operative saccos in Kenya: A case of Mwalimu sacco
(University of NairobiSchool of Business,, 2009)There are about 5,000 sacco societies in Kenya which by December 2008, had mobilized Kshs 200 billion representing about 31 percent of the country's savings or 1/3 of the countrys GPD. Mwalimu Sacco Society Ltd is ... -
Predictive Ability of Information Contained in Financial Statements of Co-operative Societies - a Case of Co-operative Bank of Kenya Limited
(Business Administration, 2003)The study seeks to establish whether information contained in financial statements is useful in discriminating between performing and non performing co-operative societies' loans. Non performing loans, a prevalent ... -
Relationship between flexible work practices and organisational performance: a survey of advertising agencies in Kenya
(University of NairobiFaculty of Commerce, 2005-09)It has been argued in the literature that flexible work practices affect organisational performance. However, no examination of the relationship among these has been performed in the Kenyan context. The objective of the ... -
Corporate governance in public hospitals in the coast province of Kenya
(University of NairobiSchool of Business, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2008)Business corporate governance principles have been recently discussed in managerial literature in regards to management practice in the public sector. Among the largest public sectors in Kenya is Health Services. Efficient ... -
Issues in strategy formulation and implementation in international collaborative research and development: a case study of research based institutions in Kenya
(University of NairobiSchool of Business, 2004-10)Using a sample of twenty research-based institutions within which twenty-seven collaborative research settings participated in our study, we reveal that strategy formulation and implementation in research-based institutions ... -
Implementation of performance contractinga at the National Social Security Fund
(University of NairobiSchool of Business,, 2009)Performance management is a key strategic issue at the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) because of the Poor performance experienced since its establishment in 1965.Consequentiy, NSSF adopted the application of ...
