Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Quality Management Core Practices: A Participatory Action-Based Case Research on Non-Integrated Implementation
(School of Business, 2012)The paper describes a participatory action-based case research to analyze the effect of the easier-to-apply quality management core practices on the operational performance in contexts in which the harder-to-apply ... -
The Effect of Export Marketing Strategy on the Relationship between Firm Competencies and Export Performance of Small and Medium Manufacturing Exporters in Uganda
(School of Business, 2012)Both the size and rapid growth of globalization have focused the attention of international business researchers on the factors associated with firms’ export performance. However, knowledge of this increasingly important ... -
The perception of Kenyan citizens on improvement of public service delivery since the implementation of performance contracts in Kenya
(2011)The main objective of the study was to establish the perception of Kenyan citizen’s on improvement of public service delivery since the implementation of performance contracts in Kenya. The accessible target population ... -
Empirical analysis of balanced score card and challenges of strategy implementation at the ERNST &YOUNG – Kenya
(School of Business, 2011)The paper focused on the challenges of the balanced score card in strategy implementation and was a case study on Ernst & Young-Kenya, an auditing and consultancy firm. The paper aimed at finding out how Ernst & Young-Kenya, ... -
Procurement Reforms and Expenditure Management in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya
(2012)The Education Act and the Secondary School Heads’ Manual recognize school heads as the financial controllers and accounting officers, responsible for all school revenue and expenditure management. Prior to reforms, ... -
Market strategy and corporate performance: the contextual application of pims principles in Kenya
(School of Business, 2011)The influence of market strategy on corporate performance has been and still is a centralissue in Strategic Management Discipline. In spite of immense academic curiosity in this area,exemplified by extensive empirical ... -
Economic Empowerment of Women Through Village Savings And Loan Schemes
(2012)Village Savings and Loan (VSL) schemes provide opportunity for low income-earners to access affordable financial services, which is a critical ingredient for economic empowerment. In 2004, CARE Kenya piloted a VSL project ... -
Strategies Adopted by Multinational Corporations to Cope with Competition in Kenya
(2012)Multinational corporations (MNCs) operate in a global environment unfamiliar in political, economic, social, cultural, technological and legal aspects. Increased competition among multinational corporations and the entry ... -
The Influence of Human Resource Capacity on Readiness to Adopt e-Learning in Secondary Schools in Kitui District, Kenya
(2012)In line with Kenya’s Vision 2030, the government plans to adopt e-learning in all learning institutions. To achieve this, the Government aims to make education the natural platform for equipping the nation with ICT skills ... -
A Critical Evaluation of the Applicability of Unitarism Perspective in Contemporary Employment Relations
(2012)Employment relation is concerned with generally managing the employment relationships which deal with the agreement of terms and conditions of employment and with issues arising from employment. It is evident that ... -
The Moderating Role of Organizational Justice on the Relationship Between Age, Locus of Control and Employee Outcomes
(2012)The Public sector in Kenya is the single largest employer whose employees are scattered among the local government, the civil service, the judiciary, various government ministries and parastatals (public corporations). ... -
An Investigation into the Existence of Fads in the Initial Public Offering Market in Kenya
(2012)The tested the existence of fad explanation in the IPO market in Kenya. It sought to examine the price behaviour of IPOs to test whether or not it was consistent with fad explanation. The research methodology was based ... -
The interaction of Personal factors, Structure and Performance in NGOs
(2012)There are various elements that interact to render performance outcomes in Non-governmental organizations. These could be organizational, personal and environmental factors. This study set out to examine the interaction ... -
The Human Resource Factor in Successful Implementation Of World Bank Funded Projects In Kenya
(2012)This study focused on the relationship between two human resource factors: namely top management support and project team and their influence on implementation of infrastructure projects. A descriptive survey design was ... -
Entrepreneurship and Performance
(2012)The present researcher raised the question whether the well-known high mortality rate of SMEs was due only to poor motivation on the part of owner-managers or not. To provide an answer to this question, I evaluated the ... -
Consumers’ attitude towards Fairtrade coffee in the UK
(2012)The rapid worldwide expansion of Fair Trade coffee sales was highly reported to be accelerated by the involvement of large retailers (LRs). The purpose of this research was to understand factors influencing consumers’ ... -
Strategic Planning, Planning Outcomes and Organizational Performance
(2012)This study investigates the influence of strategic planning and planning outcomes; planning outcomes and firm performance. Measures of strategic planning were seven dimensions namely internal orientation, external ... -
Factors Determining Customer Commitment to Service Providers in Kenyan Mobile Telephone Industry
(2012)The study was designed to determine factors which contribute to customer commitment in the mobile telephone service industry. The population of interest comprised of subscribers to mobile telephone companies in Nairobi ... -
Towards Understanding the Design of Human Resource Development Infrastructures for Knowledge Intensive Organizations
(2012)The design of HRD Infrastructures in organizations remains largely understudied. This paper used the existing theoretical literature to provide empirical evidence on the design of HRD Infrastructures among universities ... -
Pre and Post-alliance Formation Factors and Financial Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises Involved in Strategic Alliances in Kenya
(School of Business, 2011)The primary objective of this study was to determine the pre- and postalliance formation factors influencing the financial performance of SMEs involved in strategic alliances in Kisumu District, .Kenya. The study ...
