Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Critical Thinking and Kenyan Women’s Novel
(Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2022-06-11)Critical thinking, according to one of its numerous definitions, is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualizing information gathered from empirical experience. This process appears to ... -
The Legal Impunity for Marital Rape in Kenya: a Women’s Equality Issue
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Is Africa’s Fiscal Space Undermined by Debt related Illicit Financial Flows?A Case Study of Selected SADC Member States
(Committee on Fiscal Studies, 2022-09-03)Fiscal activism relates to the extent to which African governments can generate revenue to meet their financing needs. It is, therefore, a priority policy issue at all levels of governance both domestically and ... -
Resolving the Debt Sustainability Issues from a Legal and Institutional Perspective : a kenyan case study
(Committee on Fiscal Studies, 2022-09-03)The paper arguesthat the promulgation of the Constitutionof Kenya2010, the enactment of the enabling domestic laws,1and the medium-term debt management strategies prepared by the Kenyan Ministry of Finance has not helped ... -
Changing Identities and Refunctionalisation of Heritage : A Case Study of Nairobi Clubhouse Demolition and Regeneration
(Africa Habitat Review, 2022)This research study sought to analyze the demolition and regeneration of the Nairobi Railways Clubhouse within the context of not only the evolution of Nairobi City as a major urban metropolis, but also continued evolution ... -
Architectural Metabletica.
(Africa Habitat Review, 2022-09)The first Luo settlements were established at Ramogi Hill, Siaya County, prior to migration of Luo peoples into the rest of Luo land. Traditional governance systems ensured sustenance and thriving of Luo culture and ... -
Tripartite of Spatial Patterns, Sub-Optimal Laws and the Dysfunctional Land-Use Planning in Kenya
(Africa Habitat Review, 2022-09)This paper investigated the hypothesis that, for lack of research to bring the ‘duality problem’ in land use management into the fore, policy makers did not incorporate the required instruments into the planning statutes. ... -
Recreational green spaces as the future for sustainable cities: Case of Karura Forest in Nairobi, Kenya
(JSEP, 2022-06)Urban areas have been experiencing unprecedented growth since the beginning of the 20th century. Rapid urbanization is likely to present various challenges relating to human health, food security, water and energy needs, ... -
Fitting China in: local elite collusion and contestation along Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway
(2022-07-22)Scholarship examining African agency towards Chinese development projects typically focuses on negotiations between African national elites and Chinese actors at the inception and policy formulation phase, a period which ... -
Party Institutionalization in Africa: Kenya's 2013 Elections in Comparative Perspective
(Brill, 2015-01)Since the return of multipartyism, Africa has seen the proliferation of political parties as vehicles for political contestation. Consequently, this has triggered curiosity among scholars to ask one main question: Are ... -
The relationship between Board Diversity and Financial Reporting Quality of Companies Listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange in Kenya
(African Development Finance Journal, 2022-08-16)The goal of the paper was to establish the relationship between board diversity and the financial reporting quality of the companies listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) in Kenya. The target population consisted ... -
Joint effect of national image, business climate, and technology transfer to foreign direct investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
(DBA Africa Management Review, 2022-09-12)The main purpose of this study was to establish the joint effect of national image, business climate, and technology transfer on foreign direct investment (FDI) among Sub-Saharan African nations. The ... -
Which corporate governance? This is my business
(DBA Africa Management Review, 2022-09-12)With increasing corporate declines witnessed in the recent past, corporate governance is commonly sought as a panacea to corporate problems. Corporate governance has traditionally been viewed through the ... -
Dynamic capabilities, firm innovation and competitive advantage of companies listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange
(DBA Africa Management Review, 2022-09-12)Recent studies show that dynamic capabilities as high order organizational capabilities enable firms to attain a competitive advantage. Additionally, firm innovation which entails the creation of products, processes as ... -
Firm size moderation on earnings volatility and income retention of general Insurers in East Africa
(DBA Africa Management Review, 2022-09-12)To hedge against the prospect of financial distress and stabilize results, insurance firms with volatile earnings have incentive to purchase more reinsurance, thereby reducing their income retention. With the ... -
Influence of gaining perspective dimension of adaptive leadership on organizationalperformance of Insurance Companies in Kenya
(DBA Africa Management Review, 2022-09-12)The objective of the study was to examine the extent to which adaptive leadership’s gaining perspective dimension influences organizational performance. Gaining perspective was studied using the constructs of reflection, ... -
The role of brand experience in the relationship between perceived service quality and passenger satisfaction at Airports in Kenya
(DBA Africa Management Review, 2022-06-08)The paucity of research examining the antecedents of satisfaction inspires the need to extend the frontiers of knowledge in the under-researched and emerging market environment of the airport user experience. The purpose ... -
The role of competitive strategies in the relationship between knowledge management and performance of retail pharmaceutical firms in nairobi City County, Kenya
(DBA Africa Management Review, 2022-06-08)Firms perform differently in the same industry with some achieving higher levels of performance than others which can be associated to the type of competitive strategies each adopts. The objective of the study was to ... -
Health Expenditures and Health Outcomes in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Health inputs are critical in attaining a healthy nation and improving health outcomes. Kenya, like other developing countries, grapples with limited health expenditures and poor population health indicators. Specifically, ... -
Determinants of Labor Productivity Among Smes and Large‐sized Private Service Firms in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Using the 2018 World Bank enterprise data, this study sought to establish whether the determinants of labor productivity in the Kenyan private service sector varied with the size of the firm. Unlike previous studies that ...
