School of Business: Recent submissions
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Strategic Choice, Organizational Learning, Top Management Team Processes and Firm Performance: A Critical Literature Review
(2016-01)Organizations are in a constant search for ways of distinguishing themselves from rivals and competitors in a bid to outperform them and secure sustained competitive advantage. It has been argued that organizations that ... -
The Influence of External Stakeholders and Expansion Strategies on the Relationship between Organisational Resources and Firm Performance
(2013)For decades, the field of strategic management has focused on the determination of drivers of performance and the causes of variation in performance within and between firms. The frameworks so far identified such as ... -
Organizational Resources, External Environment, Innovation and Firm Performance: A Critical Review of Literature
(2014-12)Organisational climate (OC) plays an important role in the innovation of an organisation. In addition, innovation has become critical for nations, organisations and individuals in an increasingly complex and challenging ... -
Organizational Resources, Innovation and Performance of Insurance Companies in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)In spite of a growing body of literature on firm performance, explaining why firms in the same industry and markets differ in their performance remains a fundamental question within strategic management field. While some ... -
Exploring Resources and Performance Relationships in Commercial Enterprises: An Empirical Perspective
(2015-10-07)Despite a growing body of literature on firm performance, explaining why firms in the same industry and markets differ in their performance remains a fundamental question within strategic management field. Researchers ... -
Exploring Resources and Performance Relationships in Commercial Enterprises: An Empirical Perspective
(2015-10-07)Despite a growing body of literature on firm performance, explaining why firms in the same industry and markets differ in their performance remains a fundamental question within strategic management field. Researchers have ... -
Effectiveness of the Balanced Score Card in Implementation of Corporate Strategy: A case of a Kenyan Insurance Company.
(2016-08-01)The Government of Kenya has made substantial investment in the public sector through creation of diverse corporations. However, most public sector firms have not shown the required levels of efficiency and effectiveness ... -
An Assessment of the Influence of Disability Legislation Awareness on Employability of Persons with Disabilities in Post-Secondary Institutions in Kirinyaga County, Kenya.
(2017)Globally, unemployment and underemployment of persons with disabilities is a major concern. A World Bank report shows that 20% of the world’s poor are persons with disabilities, 60% of them living in developing countries, ... -
The Influence of Government Policies on Tourism Performance in West Pokot County. International Journal of Scientific Research and Management (IJSRM) 7(5), 483-489.
(2019)The study focused on the influence of government policies on tourism performance in West Pokot County, Kenya. The study was guided by the following variables: policy framework, provision of infrastructure, provision ... -
The Influence of Government Policies on Tourism Performance in West Pokot County.
(2019)The study focused on the influence of government policies on tourism performance in West Pokot County, Kenya. The study was guided by the following variables: policy framework, provision of infrastructure, provision of ... -
The Effects of Destination Marketing on Tourism Performance in West Pokot County
(Rift Valley Technical Training Institute, 2020)Tourism is an ever-growing service industry with great development potential. It has become one of the most important drivers of socio-economic development worldwide and has attracted interest for research. Many nations ... -
Influence of Fiscal Asymmetric Decentralization on Household Effects—A Review of Recent Literature.
(2019)The study is in line with Oates (1951), where fiscal decentralization is explained as the delegation of income and con-sumption powers from the central government to the devolved units, both local and national levels within ... -
Influence of Fiscal Federalism as Budget Efficacy on Household Income in Kenya
(2019-05-31)The Theory of federalism suggests that a fiscal decentralization negatively affects the size of a government budget. Indeed, the size of the national budget in Kenya has been ballooning ever since the inception of fiscal ... -
Fiscal Asymmetric Decentralization Conundrum: Influence of County Cash Management on Household Effects in Kenyav
(2020)This study aims at determining the influence of county cash management on household effects in Kenya. This is a qualitative research that has utilized both primary and secondary data from county governments and the National ... -
Influence of Strategic Physical Resources on Performance of Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises in Kenya.
(Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, 2019-05-13)ABSTRACT Article History Received 1st April 2019 Accepted 13th May 2019 Purpose This study sought to determine the influence of strategic physical resources on performance of small and medium manufacturing ... -
Strategic Human Resources and Firm Performance: Perspectives from Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises in Kenya.
(2019)This study sought to determine the influence of human resources on performance of small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Kenya. The study was anchored on the Resource Based View (RBV) theory of the firm. Positivistic ... -
Participatory Communication Strategies Used in the Implementation of Public Water Projects in Murang'a County, Case Study of Northern Collector Tunnel, Kenya.
(2020-05-14)Development communication plays a major role in informing and influencing the behavior of the receiver of information. Effective development communication motivates people to participate in planned activities, ... -
Moderating effect of social media on relationship between entrepreneurial networking and performance of youth owned agro processing SMEs in Kenya
(2020)This paper was anchored on a pragmatic research paradigm. The study used a cross-sectional survey where a self-semi structured questionnaire was administered to collect the primary data from the target population who ... -
Relationship between Intellectual Capital and Performance of Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises in Kenya.
(International Hellenic University, 2019)Abstract Purpose: The purpose of the Study was to establish the relationship between intellectual capital and performance of small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Kenya. Design/methodology/approach: The study ... -
Role of Participatory Communication in Influencing Men’s Behaviour Response to Prostate Cancer Screening and Treatment in Central Region of Kenya.
(2021-08)Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the leading causes of death among men in the world. Early screening is recommended as one of the prevention measures of the disease. Screening can be encouraged by Behaviour Change ...
