Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Law, Business Mgt (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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The Effect of Mortgage Interest Rates on the Growth of Mortgage Financing Amongst Financial Institutions in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-11)Mortgage financing plays an important role in the development of an economy and ultimately poverty alleviation when individuals get to be home owners instead of tenants. The Kenyan mortgage market has been experiencing ... -
Strategies adopted by real estate firms in Kenya to gain competitive advantage
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Strategy of an organization is the roadmap towards attainment of its long term goals and objectives. Competitive strategies consist of all those moves and approaches that a firm has and is taking to attract buyers, ... -
The Effect of Divided Policy on the Financial Performance of Firms Listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange
(University of Nairobi, 2015)As a company earns profits it can it can pay it back to its investors as dividends or it can retain it within the business for reinvesting. It may however decide to apportion the surplus to both. In taking any of the ... -
Effect of Knowledge Management Practices on Performance of Mobile Telephone Companies in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-11)Knowledge management is a concept that comprises a set of strategies and practices in order to capture, create, store and spread knowledge and experience within the organization. One of the major challenges of knowledge ... -
Free Newspaper and Reading Culture: a Case Study of the People Daily
(University of Nairobi, 2015-10)This study seeks to develop and understating of the influence of free newspapers on reading culture. The study is motivated by recent pioneering introduction of a free daily newspaper, a business model different from the ... -
Knowledge management strategy development, implementation and impact at the united nations environment programme (UNEP)
(University of Nairobi, 2015-11)To main purpose of the study is to identify the knowledge management strategy, development and implementation process at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This study covers knowledge management strategy, ... -
Application of Business Process Re-engineering as a Strategic Planning Tool by the Kenya Judiciary
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Every organization needs to have a strategy of how it operates in the ever changing environment so as to ensure it survives in the same environment. To be able to implement this strategy it is important in all types of ... -
Evaluating Management of Strategic Change at Kenya Revenue Authority
(University of Nairobi, 2015-11)There has been an acceleration of the magnitude and pace of change across the globe in the last decade. These changes, whether political, economic, social and technological are necessary for companies to remain competitive. ... -
Evaluation of the Application of Balanced Scorecard in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)With an increasingly enlightened and empowered citizenry, the demand on Public Service Organizations to deliver quality services in a cost effective way has never been more pronounced in Kenya than now. Despite most ... -
Globalization and Strategic Alliances Among Commercial Banks in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-10)The main purpose of the study was to determine the globalization and strategic alliances among commercial banks in Kenya. The research addressed the extent of strategic alliances among commercial banks and how globalisation ... -
The Relationship Between Financial Innovation and Financial Fraud in Commercial Banks in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)This study sought to determine the relationship between financial innovation and financial fraud in commercial banks in Kenya. The study concluded that commercial banks had adopted process, product and institutional ... -
Influence of organizational culture on strategy implementation at the University of Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2015-11)Organizations prepare strategies which in most cases are never implemented for various reasons. Translating strategic thought into organization action is the most difficult phase of strategic management and without ... -
The relationship between required trade documentation and the choice of cross-border trade patterns A case of registered maize traders at Busia border post
(University of Nairobi, 2015-11)Among the wide range of regulatory requirements facing traders, documentation procedures have often acted as an important barrier to formal trade contributing to raising Trade Transactions Costs (TTCs). Whereas concluded ... -
Crisis management strategies adopted by small and medium enterprises in Garissa Town, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-11)As environmental turbulence increases, crisis emerge more frequently that challenge the way an organization formulates and implements its strategy. It is through crisis management strategy that a firm will be able to secure ... -
Regional trade and the single window system: A case of the EAC
(University of Nairobi, 2015-08)Overtime, there have been noted trends in the expansion of global economies; in fact, the African narrative now is Africa Rising as a result of strengthened economies in the continent and empowerment both from within and ... -
Growth in Use of E-books Collection Among Undergraduate Students in Two Academic Libraries in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)The study focused on investigating the growth in use of e-books collection among undergraduate students in academic libraries in Kenya with particular interest to Technical University of Kenya and Catholic university of ... -
An Evaluation of Factors Affecting Foreign Direct Investment Inflows in Africa; a Case Study of Kenya 1990-2011
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is among the most dynamic international resource flows to developing countries. FDI’s is usually a mix of investments in both tangible and intangible assets and firms that deploy such ... -
African Union’s Intervention in Kenya’s Post Election Violence in 2007/2008
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Post-election violence in Kenya in December 2007 led to bloodshed and displacement on a massive scale. Beyond the despair and anger over poverty, corruption, and the need for political change in the face of a fraudulent ... -
The effect of value added tax on economic growth in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-10)The study’s objective was to determine the effect of value added tax on economic growth in Kenya. The research design adopted in this study was causal study. The target population for this study consisted of the quarterly ... -
The relationship between profitability growth and the yield on gross portfolio of Micro-finance Institutions In Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)The objective of this study was to find out the relationship between profitability growth and the yield on gross portfolio of micro-finance institutions in Kenya. The performance of microfinance institutions has been ...
