Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Framework for the promotion and implementation of community malaria control in the context of Roll Back Malaria, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa
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Firm competencies and export performance: A study of small and medium manufacturing exporters in Uganda
(Department of Business Administration, 2012)In the exporting context, the notion of firm competencies entails processes by which organizational resources are developed, combined and transformed into value offerings for the export market. Despite the growing amount ... -
The Effects of the External Environment on Internal Management Strategies within Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; Kenyan Case
(Department of Business Administration, 2012-02)The Kenya is a developing country where 85% of employment is generated by MSMEs .The country has been experiencing the upsurge of too many challenges all at once. These includes an experimental ‘coalition government’, ... -
Memory, Traditionalism and Constitutionalism: Overcoming the Problem of Nation Formation in Kenya.
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Journalism and Mass Communication, 2008)Abstract: Since the dawn of the second liberation in Kenya in the early 1990s, Kenyans have been trying to write a new constitution to replace the independence constitution which was not a product of popular negotiation. ... -
Urbanization and consumption of petroleum products in Kenya
(ElsevierDepartment of economics, university of Nairobi, 1993)Kenya's urban population has been growing at 6% per annum in the last 20 years and is expected to account for 25% of the population in the year 2000. This paper analyses the impact of urbanization on the consumption of ... -
African Periodicals and Popular Culture
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Journalism, 2007) -
Diversity in the top management teams and effects on corporate performance
(Department of Business Administration, 2011-03-10)The globalization process has dramatically changed the business landscape and the society in which we live. This has affected all the business organizations. As the environment becomes more complex, firms seeking to gain ... -
Women's Land and Property Rights in Three Eastern Africa Countries
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1998-02)Eastern Africa is a region that has known many conflicts. Some of them started as internal conflicts but later spread over national boundaries. The causes of these conflicts range from the struggle for self-determination ... -
The urban political ecology of plastic bag waste problem in Nairobi, Kenya
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Geography, 2006)Over 24 million plastic bags are consumed in Kenya monthly. More than half of the bags end up in the solid waste stream. Plastic bags now constitute the biggest challenge to solid waste management in Nairobi, the capital ... -
Influence of Power Distance on Employee Empowerment and MNC Performance: A Study of Multinational Corporations in Kenya
(Department of Business Administration, 2012-02)This study focused on the influence of power distance on the relationship between employee empowerment and performance of multinational corporations in Kenya. In the recent past, employee empowerment has been promoted as ... -
Curricula in Africa: The Case of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Communication and Journalism, 1994)This is an incisive scientific evaluation o f the existing curricula in journalism and communication training institutions in East Africa. The study pays close attention to most of the crucial elements of a good curricula, ... -
Social Policy and the Role of the Individual in Regulating Business Crime
(Faculty of Arts, 2002)What we are seeing today within the business community in Africa, what most of us are inclined to call the rot in business is but a fresh look at the changes that have taken place within our society. There is a growing ... -
Mobilization and protest: the struggle to save Karura Forest in Nairobi, Kenya
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Geology and Geography, 2012)Recent literature in geography and related sciences has sought to demonstrate the role of different forms of spatialities such as space, place, scale and mobility in structuring social movement formations. In so doing, the ... -
Women′s Perceptions of Social-Sexual Behavior: A Cross-Cultural Replication
(Department of Business Administration, 1995-04)Japanese female undergraduates (N = 258) read a vignette depicting social-sexual behavior toward a woman at work and indicated their perceptions of the incident, the coping responses expected from the target, and their own ... -
Guidelines for Developing Information, Education and Communication Materials for behavior change in malaria control. World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa.
(Institute for Development Studies, 2001) -
Jua Kali Strategies for Socio-Economic Change in Nairobi
(Institute for Development Studies (IDS), 2011)The term jua kali which literally means hot sun in Swahili is used to describe informal micro and small enterprises in Kenya. These businesses have remarkably persisted in the space economy of Kenyan cities and rural areas. ... -
DFID scoping mission report on malaria in Uganda.
(Institute for Development Studies, 2003) -
Changing Political Faces on Kenya's Coast, 1992–2007
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2008)he voters of Kenya's coastal province largely supported the ruling party of President Moi in the elections of 1992 and 1997, yet in 2002 they turned away from KANU and toward the NaRC coalition led by Mwai Kibaki. The ... -
Reproductive health needs for women with disabilities in Makueni District (Report submitted to the Belgium technical cooperation)
(Institute for Development Studies, 2003) -
What to Do with the Informal Sector?
(2004)Almost all informal firms in the Kenyan manufacturing sector are managed by Kenyans of African origin. Formal enterprises are run by Kenyans of both African and Asian origin. These three groups are distinct in terms of ...
