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Corporate financial distress: an anatomy of Uchumi supermarket stores in Kenya (2001 - 2006)
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
To investigate the missing link between prudent management, bankruptcy laws, and
financial distress. We find that Uchumi supermarkets became insolvent when its Board of
Directors decided to embark on unplanned expansion ...
Adolescent desire for more children in Kenya
(2007)
The study was aimed at investigating the influence of socio-cultural, socioeconomic
and demographic factors on adolescent desire for more children in
Kenya. These factors are assumed to potentially influence the behaviour ...
Use of resource based perspective as a Competitive strategy at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
The RBP is an emerging competitive strategy which emphasizes that for a
firm to gain competitive advantage it has to also focus on its internal firm
specific factors hereby referred to as resources. Before its emergence ...
Human resource strategic orientation, organizational commitment and firm performance in large private manufacturing firms in Kenya.
(2007)
Although there is a growing body of evidence demonstrating the linkage between Human
Resource (HR) practices and firm performance, there is less evidence on the nature of this
linkage. This study sought to fill this gap ...
Application of the balanced scorecard in strategy implementation at Barclay bank of Kenya limited
(2007)
A key challenge in strategic management is strategy implementation. Several organizations come up with excellent strategies that end up never being implemented for one reason or another. When adopted, the balanced scorecard ...
The role of hate speech and unsavory language in inciting ethnic animosity: an experimental case study of the 2005 referendum on the draft constitution in Kenya
(2007)
In many countries world over, and especially in Africa, identity politics, hate speech
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broadcastetl in the media has had profound consequences on different ethnic
communities. Hate speech has in the ...
Relationship between human resource Management practices, job satisfaction, Organizational commitment and Performance: a survey of public secondary Schools in Dagoretti Division, Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the relationships
between prevailing HRM practices, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and
KCSE performance in public secondary schools in Dagoretti ...
Determinants of exchange rates in Kenya: 1970-2005
(2007-08)
The study examines both structural and short-run factors determining variations of real
exchange rates (RER) and nominal exchange rates (NER) in Kenya. The structural factors
exam ined are terms of trade (TOT), net capital ...
The strategic responses of Glaxosmithkline pharmaceuticals towards competition in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2007-10)
The business environment within which the manufacturing pharmaceutical
industry operates has been very volatile. The political anxiety, competition from
the entrants, social reforms, technological advancement and global ...
The effects and extent of foreign exchange risk on project Management: the case of International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
The principal focus of this study was to establish the determinants of exposure to foreign
exchange rate risk on projects funded through ILRI, explore the effects of exchange rate
fluctuations in the medium term period ...