Public enterprises and national development

Abstract

This thesis seeks to address the question of the factors that account for the persistence of public enterprises in spite of continued reports on their financial mismanagement and shortfalls in overall performance. In doing this, our main objective is to shed more light on the social- economic and political roles played by public enterprises to an extent that they have become empirically indispensable I a country such as Kenya. Our main source of data is documentary. Primary data are also collected through formal and informal discussions using an interview schedule with selected people who have indepth knowledge of the organization. Non- profitability purposively sampling is used to select these knowledgeable people