School of Business and Economics: Recent submissions
Now showing items 101-120 of 247
-
Extend Of Adoption Of Corporate Governance Practices In Public Secondary Schools In Kisumu Central Sub-County, Kenya
(International Journal Busniess Quantitative Economics and Applied Management Research, 2016)Corporate governance is an important concept and is defined as the process and structures used to direct and manage business affairs of the company towards enhancing prosperity and corporate accounting. This implies the ... -
Strategic Management Practices and Service Delivery in the County Government of Bungoma, Kenya
(Kibabii University, 2018)Strategic management practices involve the art and science of formulating, implementing, and evaluating cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives. The main purpose of this research ... -
Real Effective Exchange Rate Volatility and Its Impact on Foreign Direct Investment in Kenya
(Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting, 2018)on foreign direct investment in Kenya. Findings of this study will add value to the Dornbusch overshooting model, production flexibility and risk aversion theories and partial and general equilibrium theories and will ... -
An Econometric Assessment of the Real Effective Exchange Rate Volatility in Kenya
(Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting, 2018)A country’s real effective exchange rate (REER) is an important determinant of the growth of crossborder trading and it serves as a measure of its international competitiveness. The REER is an active source of discussions ... -
Assessing the productivity of indigenous chickens in an extensive management system in southern Nyanza, Kenya
(Springer Netherlands, 2010)The present study was conducted to assess the performance of indigenous chickens under extensive system in southern Nyanza, Kenya. The study was carried out in two phases in Komolorume and Kawere villages in Rongo and ... -
Effect of corporate governance on total income due to nonperforming asset portfolios in the banking sector: a case of commercial banks in Kenya
(www. ijern. com, 2016)It’ s argued that corporate governance can be linked to total income due to non performing asset portfolios (NPAs) in commercial banks in Kenya but this has not been determined empirically. Information is lacking on effect ... -
Mediating Role of Route Characteristics on Effect of Low-Cost Carriers on the Airline Market in Kenya
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016)Studies show that low-cost carriers have gained 15.2% market shares while enplanement had increased by 38% following their emergence. Whereas frequency is directly influenced by airlines’ key factor such as turn-time, it, ... -
An Empirical Investigation into the Effect of Enhancing Airline Capacity on Load Factor: A Case of Kenya’s Low-Cost Carriers
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016)This paper reports the findings of an empirical study on the low-cost airline market. A lot of literatures on low-cost carriers’ business model agree that low-cost airlines operate with high load factors. However, due to ... -
Strategy Formation, Execution Capability, and Innovation- Performance Relationship to Farms’ Strategic Orientation: A Study of Safaricom, Nairobi, Kenya
(International Journal of Business and Social Science, 2015)Effective Strategy formation, execution capability is a complex organizational resource capability that should lead to superior performance. Empirical research on strategy has examined the strategy formation capability from ... -
EXISTING TRENDS IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES OF KENYA’S MAIN TRADING CURRENCIES
(European Scientific Journal, 2013)Performance of a security market reflects the economic situation of a country as it is affected by both a country’s domestic and foreign economic events. Given the current increased level of cross borders transactions ... -
The Impact of Public Relations Principles in the Strategic Management of the Police Force in Kenya
(Universal Journal of Management, 2014)Public Relations is a department which has not been effectively utilized in the public sector, particularly in the police force in Kenya. One can hardly find it clearly defined and stipulated in the statutes and ... -
Application of Business Risk Auditing among Audit Firms in Western Region, Kenya
(African Research Review, 2014)Auditing remains an important tool of management oversight. Auditing theory indicates that the discipline draws its legitimacy on its ability to enhance confidence on the financial statements by its users. However, there ... -
Effect of Liquidity on Financial Performance of the Sugar Industry in Kenya
(2018)Liquidity is one of the most important goals of working capital management and central task of revenue optimization and company’s financial performance. Equally, aggressive liquidity management is associated with higher ... -
market-based and bank-based financial structure on economic growth in some selected Ecowas countries
(International Journal of Education and Research, 2013)There has been a lot of debate as to which of the financial system or structure promotes Economic Growth in an economy. In this sense policy makers have debated the relative merit of bank based and market based in affecting ... -
Effects of Strategic Decision Making on Firm`s Performance: A Case Study of Safaricom Limited, Nairobi, Kenya
(International Journal of Business and Social Science, 2013)The present study considers potential performance effects associated with strategic decision making. Enhancement of an organization`s communication capabilities may influence performance through improved strategic decision ... -
Trends in forest conditions and implications for resilience to climate change under differing forest governance regimes: the case of Mount Elgon, East Africa
(CIFOR, 2017-03-16)Mount Elgon is a transboundary East African montane ecosystem that harbors unique biological diversity and provides critical goods and services to the surrounding densely populated communities. As a key water tower, the ... -
Exclusion of Community forest Associations in Decision Making and its Impact on Forest Condition; Case Study of MT. Elgon and Cherangany Ecosystems
(Indian Forester, 2017-09-01)Governance of forestry structure through Participatory Forest Management is backed by Forest Act 2005, which is undergoing a review process. It has been shown that adoption of PFM in some forest stations has resulted in ... -
Board Composition and Value-added Performance in an Emerging Securities Market: Panel Evidence from Kenya
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers, 2017-11)This study investigates the role of board composition in influencing valueadded performance for firms in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) using the fixed effects panel data methodology. Using a sample of 456 firm-year ... -
EFFECTS OF MARKET CHALLENGER STRATEGIES ON PERFORMANCE OF VERNACULAR RADIO BROADCASTING FIRMS IN WESTERN KENYA
(ijecm, 2018-09-09)In Kenya, Radio broadcasting firms have played positive roles in the development of democracy. In 2015 51% of Kenyans listened to radio as their main source of entertainment, beating any other medium. However, there has ... -
Effect of strategic orientation on performance of banking institutions in Kisumu city-Kenya
(International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research Academy, 2012)This study sought to determine the effect of strategic orientation on performance of banking institutions in Kisumu City. Performance of these banks varies greatly in terms of return on total assets (ROTA) yet they operate ...