Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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The influence of time management tendencies on the relationship between employee empowerment and organizational performance
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)The main objective of this study was to determine the influence of time management tendencies on the relationship between employee empowerment and organizational performance. Preference-driven variations in the temporal ... -
E-Commerce Strategy and Performance of Commercial Banks in Kenya
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012-07)This study aimed at establishing the relationship between e-commerce strategy and performance of commercial banks in Kenya, and the factors influencing the adoption of e-commerce strategy. The study adopted a cross sectional ... -
Lean manufacturing tools and techniques in industrial operations
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)The study sought to examine the extent to which lean manufacturing tools and techniques are adopted by sugar processing companies in Kenya and their impact on factory time efficiency. The study was a survey covering five ... -
Towards Understanding the Design of Human Resource Development Infrastructures for Knowledge Intensive Organizations
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)The design of HRD Infrastructures in organizations remains largely understudied. This paper used the existing theoretical literature to provide empirical evidence on the design of HRD Infrastructures among universities ... -
Factors influencing Change Management Process at Tamoil Kenya Limited
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)This study set out to establish change management practices within Tamoil Kenya and evaluated the change management process in light of the models of change management and factors that affected the change management process. ... -
Corporate governance structures and performance of HIV/AIDS NGOs in Nairobi, Kenya
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)The study examines the relationship between corporate governance structures and performance of HIV/AIDS Non-Governmental Organizations. Using a structured questionnaire, data on the corporate governance structures ... -
Corporate governance as an instrument for ethical behaviour in Organizational success
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)Corporate governance based on the ethical values is leadership that has the rules, processes, or laws by which businesses are operated, regulated, and controlled, the internal factors are defined by the officers, stockholders ... -
The link between compliance with corporate governance disclosure code, and firm performance for Kenyan firms.
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)In 2002, The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) of Kenya issued the CMA guideline on Corporate Governance. Listed Companies are required to comply or give reasons for non-compliance with the “guideline”. Recent empirical ... -
An exploratory study of quality management issues in the health service sector in Nairobi, Kenya.
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)Quality has no one common definition. The many definitions are based on origin emphasized, operations / manufacturing, economics, position on marketing-consumer chain and changes focus from product to the process. Quality ... -
An evaluation of the perfomance of islamically screened portfolios at the Nairobi Stock Exchange
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)There has lately been great interest in Islamic Finance in Kenya. Concerns have however risen where investors fear that by investing Islamically, they risk getting lower returns from their investments. This study therefore ... -
The influence of urban transport policy on the growth of motorcycle and tricycles in Kenya
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)The major towns of Kenya are faced with challenges of accommodating the motorcycle (bodaboda) and tricycle(Tukutuku) modes of transport in the already set system as stipulated in the urban transport policy. This article ... -
Securing the corporate network
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)Most security issues focus on the connection of the corporate network to the Internet and related issues. Securing corporate networks from intrusion threats in the business today are real and require special attention. ... -
The Effect of Universalistic Perspective of Human Resource Strategic Orientation on Performance of Large Private Manufacturing Firms in Kenya
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)The study was set to investigate the effect of universalistic perspective of human resource strategic orientation on performance of large private manufacturing firms in Kenya based on the following general research ... -
The effect of supplier quality management on organizational performance
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)Supplier quality management is one of the very many simple concepts that make a lot of sense to any well meaning organization. Unfortunately, implementing the concept is not very simple and over the years, companies have ... -
The Niche in Mobile Money Adoptions
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) is an aggressive marketing plan that captures and uses an extensive amount of customer information in setting and tracking marketing strategy. This study sought to investigate the ... -
Human related dimensions of quality management practices
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)This paper focused on the role of human-related dimensions of quality management (QM) practices on performance of Market Research Firms. Considering the critical role-played by Market Research Firms of providing information ... -
Entrepreneurial initiatives, business environmental factors, and the success of Kenya’s outward foreign direct investments in East Africa
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2012)FDIs, from emerging economies, continue to play an important role in world economic activities. Studies on the nature, the number, and factors that drive their growth have not received adequate research attention from ... -
EVALUATION OF APPLICABILITY OF ALTMAN'S REVISED MODEL IN PREDICTION OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2011)This study assesses whether Edward Altman’s financial distress prediction model can be useful in predicting business failure in Kenyan. The population of this study is composed of all the companies listed in the Nairobi ... -
The Determinants of Learning Achievement of Public Primary School Pupils in Kenya
(2011)The Government of Kenya (GoK) initiated Free Primary Education (FPE) programme effective January, 2003. The purpose of FPE was to accelerate the realization of GoK’ s commitment to achieving Univer sal Primary Education ... -
SUSTAINING A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2011)Today’s business world is characterized by stiff competition and the inevitable dynamic changes in technology, organizations and institutions are continuously striving to sustain themselves in the market. In such situations ...