Issues in strategy formulation and implementation in international collaborative research and development: a case study of research based institutions in Kenya
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Date
2004-10Author
Waruhiu, Henry K
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ThesisLanguage
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Using a sample of twenty research-based institutions within which twenty-seven
collaborative research settings participated in our study, we reveal that strategy
formulation and implementation in research-based institutions in Kenya is
characterized by scarce local talent in collaboration management. We also show that
foreign collaborators dominate strategy formulation and implementation in these
settings, (R2
a=O.996), and that collaboration in international R&D advances foreign
policy objectives. Using the non-cooperative model, we find that dominated strategy
reduces with t.he duration of strategic plans put in place. We contend that realized
strategy in international collaborative R&D is primarily explained by emergent
components rather than planned components of strategy. One implication of our
findings is that a national policy on R&D needs to be put in place. Another implication
is that local researchers need to take a more proactive role in determining the local
research agenda
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Masters Of Business Administration (MBA) Degree, University of NairobiPublisher
University of Nairobi School of Business
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A Management Research Project Report Submitted In Partial
Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of
Master of Business Administration,
Faculty of Commerce, University of Nairobi