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    Strategic responses to environmental challenges by Alliance Ginneries ltd in Tanzania

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    Date
    2014
    Author
    Macharia, Fredrick Gachau
    Type
    Thesis; en_US
    Language
    en
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    Abstract
    Organizations are faced with a myriad of challenges emanating from the environment. In order to survive, strategies have to be devised to respond to the forces that threaten to halt survival. Companies that do not respond appropriately are usually driven out of business. Companies respond to the challenges in terms of devising cost cutting strategies, adopting new technologies, competing on low prices or on high quality products or services, differentiating the products or focus strategies. The cotton industry in Tanzania has had a number of environmental changes over the years. The challenges are compounded by the fact that most of their customers are international customers who hold enormous powers making them the major determinants in the pricing of the industry’s final products. Most companies within the industry have had to devise ways of responding to these changes in order to survive. Alliance Ginneries ltd has been a player in the industry for many years and is expected to have formulated strategies to enable it respond to these changes. This research was carried out to examine how Alliance Ginneries Company in Tanzania is strategically responding to challenges posed by the competitive environment. The research was a case study of Alliance Ginneries ltd, a Tanzanian company with subsidiaries in Zambia and Zimbabwe. The researcher used an interview guide as the primary data collection instrument. The interview guide was administered using e-mails and face to face interviews through video conferencing to the departmental heads and other employees in management positions at Alliance Ginneries. Data collected was analyzed based on content analysis. The study found out that the operating environment in the cotton industry is very dynamic and volatile. The study further concludes that Alliance Ginneries had adopted various strategies to respond to the environmental changes such as expansion into new regions, operation cost reduction, restructuring and outsourcing of non-core activities. The study recommends that Alliance Ginneries should engage in more cost reduction as a response to its competitor’s strategies. The government should also reduce some of the regulatory measures to give the industry the power to regulate itself since the industry is heavily regulated. Further research should be undertaken to establish the strategic responses to competitive changes employed by other companies within the cotton industry. The study was limited in that it included respondents from one company and conclusions drawn may not be representative of the whole industry. It also captured members of one focus group excluding other important stakeholders from the study
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11295/75496
    Citation
    Master of Business Administration
    Publisher
    University of Nairobi
    Subject
    Business environment
    Strategic responses
    Environmental changes
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