Browsing Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM) by Subject "Kenya"
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Analysis of retail marketing strategies on Organizational competitiveness
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2013-01)The purpose of this study was to analyze retail marketing strategies on organizational competitiveness. The study attempted to examine the strategies that have been applied and adopted by the retail companies elsewhere in ... -
An Application of the Transportation Model in the Distribution of UHT milk
(African Journal of Finance and ManagementSchool of Business, University of Nairobi, 2000)This paper, using data from factories and depots of KCC that handle UHT milk, develops a model for the optional allocation of milk from factories to the depots in various parts of Kenya. In developing of this model, the ... -
Artisanal fisheries of Lake Victoria, Kenya: options for management, production, and marketing
(Department of Philosophy and Religious studies, University of Nairobi, 1988) -
Assessing irreversibility of an E-Government project in Kenya: Implication for governance
(2010)This paper offers an exploratory analysis into the relationship between E-Government conceptualization and its intended impacts. By combining three independent research streams of technology transfer, information technology ... -
Assessment of Materials Management in Kenyan Manufacturing Firms
(2012)This study examined the recognition Kenyan manufact uring firms are giving to materials management and the benefits of adopting good materi als management practices since long-term success and survival of any firm ... -
Assessment of materials management in the Kenyan manufacturing firms-Exploratory survey of manufacturing firms based in Nairobi
(School of Business, 2005)Materials play a big part in the manufacturing firms as it account for about 56% of the annual turnover. This research analyzed the attention and recognition the Kenyan manufacturing firms are giving to the materials ... -
Biotechnology in Kenya
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Board Diversity and Performance of Companies Listed in Nairobi Stock Exchange
(School of Business, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nairob, Kenya, 2001-06)This study examined the relationship between Board diversity and financial performance of firms listed in the Nairobi Stock Exchange. Data on Boards’ age, gender, educational qualifications, study specialization, and board ... -
Bottlenecks in the execution of Kenya vision 2030 strategy: An empirical study
(University of NairobiSchool of Business, 2012-03)Strategy can only impact the bottom line if it successfully implemented. In the past it has been proposed that the public sector experiences great difficulties in regard to implementing reforms and offering of quality ... -
The Case for a Policy Framework to Support Productivity Mainstreaming into the Kenyan Economy
(University of NairobiDepartment of Economics, 2012-11-08)This study investigates the probable causes of the very low levels of productivity consciousness in both the public and private sectors of the Kenyan economy. It identifies impediments to the realization of a complete and ... -
Changing Household Composition and Food Security among the Elderly Caretakers in Rural Western Kenya
(Springer USInstitute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi, 2009)A descriptive cross-sectional study including quantitative and qualitative methods was carried out in rural western Kenya to examine household composition and food security among the elderly caretakers. The findings indicate ... -
Changing patterns of orphan care due to the HIV epidemic in western Kenya
(Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, KenyaDanish Bilharziasis Laboratory, Jœgersborg Allé 1 D, DK-2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark, 2003)The HIV/AIDS epidemic has given rise to major demographic changes including an alarming number of orphans in sub-Saharan Africa. The study describes a rural community in western Kenya in which one out of three children ... -
Child Survival and Policy Options in Kenya
(School of Economics, University of Nairobi, 2012)This paper investigates child survival in Kenya. We use survival analysis to explain childhood mortality and further simulate the impact of key policy variables on millennium development goals targets for mortality. The ... -
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Intra-Regional Dynamics in Africa
(BRILL, 2020-10-20)This article examines the influence of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on intra-regional dynamics. Given that the BRI traverses many countries, what has not been fully addressed in the literature is how the ... -
Competitive Strategies Adopted by Multinational Banks in Kenya
(School of Business, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012)Strategy is a course of action to achieve an objective. Competitive strategy is a business strategy that is concerned with how a company can gain competitive advantage through an approach to competing. In spite of the ... -
Confronting Dictatorship in Kenya
(The Johns Hopkins University PressSchool of Law, 1991)Since June 1990, a battle has been raging over political pluralism in Kenya, On one side is a movement dedicated to restoring multiparty democracy and freeing a once-vibrant economy that is now staggering under the ... -
Courting genocide: Populism, ethno-nationalism and the informalisation of violence in Kenya's 2008 post-election crisis
(2009)Kenya was already on the precipice long before the disputed 27 December 2007 election, which sparked the cataclysmic post-election violence that brought one of Africa's most promising democracies to the brink of state ... -
The critical success factors and challenges in e-procurement adoption among large scale manufacturing firms in Nairobi, Kenya
(European Scientific JournalSchool of Business, University of Nairobi, 2013-05)E-Procurement is more than just a system for making purchases online. Some companies implement e-procurement and succeed while others fail. This study was carried out on the adoption of e-procurement among large scale ... -
Critical success factors of industrial and commercial projects in Kenya
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2011)This study was carried out to examine the critical success factors of Industrial and Commercial projects in Kenya. Past research on project success in Kenya focused mainly on cost, time and quality as dimensions of success ... -
Determinants Kenya’s Exports to the European Union (EU) (1960– 2010)
(2013)This paper examines the determinants of Kenya’s exports to the EU since 1960 to 2010 . The study uses ordinary least squares and two stage least square regression using exports values as the dependent variable. The independent ...