School of Business and Economics: Recent submissions
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Maize From Push-Pull Technology (PPT): Can the Produce Be Differentiated?
(UPSCALE, 2023-04-04)Maize is a major staple food in East Africa region with the potential to solve the region's food security and nutrition challenges. The crop is however faced with several biotic and abiotic stressors that resulting to pre ... -
Push-Pull Technology in Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture
(UPSCALE, 2023-07-05)The SSA region is bearing the brunt effect of climate change as a result of over-reliance on agriculture, poor farming practices such as deforestation, and intensive use of agrochemicals in production. As the outcome, the ... -
Effect of Resource Availability on the Performance of Energy and Petroleum Sector State Corporations in Kisumu County, Kenya.
(Research Bridge Publisher, 2023-08-08)The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of resource availability on performance of energy and petroleum sector state corporations in Kenya. The study employed explanatory research design. The target population ... -
Social Entrepreneurship Strategies and Resilience of One-Acre Fund Household Livelihoods in Kenya
(AJEBI(American Journal of Economics and Business Innovation), 2023-09-16)Entrepreneurial activities, especially social entrepreneurship, are acclaimed to foster resilience. A social entrepreneurship One Acre fund program was introduced in western Kenya to help improve maize production on one ... -
Social Innovation: An Impulsion for Resilience of One-Acre Fund Household Livelihoods in Kenya
(2023-09-16)The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of social innovation on the resilience of one-acre fund household livelihoods. Resilience is the ability to bounce back after a period of such shocks. . In that ... -
Effect of Financial Innovations on Banks’ Loan Portfolio: A Case of Commercial Banks in Kenya
(IJF, 2023)Purpose: The study sought to investigate the effect of financial innovationson loan portfolioofCommercial Banks in Kenya. The main problem was that even though banks have implemented financial innovations, the level of ... -
Effect of Financial Innovations on Banks’ Loan Portfolio: A Case of Commercial Banks in Kenya
(CARI Journals, 2023-06-07)The study sought to investigate the effect of financial innovations on loan portfolio of Commercial Banks in Kenya. The main problem was that even though banks have implemented financial innovations, the level of loans ... -
Influence of Ownership Concentration on Financial Performance of Listed Firms in Nairobi Securities Exchange, Kenya
(Edinburg journals, 2023-04)The purpose of the study was to evaluate the influence of ownership concentration on the financial performance of listed firms in the Nairobi Securities Exchange, Kenya. For this study, the target population is represented ... -
Maize from Push-Pull Technology (PPT): Can the produce be differentiated?
(Maseno University, 2023)Low soil fertility, weeds, pests, and climatic change severely threaten crop productivity and agricultural sustainability, especially in SSA. Despite decades of research finding adequate technical solutions for most ... -
Might legalized gambling expose Kenyan microenterprises to survival risks during COVID-19 Pandemic?
(Maseno University, 2023)Microenterprises are very small in size but growth-oriented enterprises largely dependent on founder’s cultural orientation for survival. Kenya enacted a legal framework on micro and small enterprise development in 2012. ... -
Relationship between Worklife Balance and Employee Turnover in Private Security Companies, Kisumu County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2023)Private security services play a significant role in protection of property all over the world hence there is need to improve on their job satisfaction. Rigidity of working time accompanied by unclear work schedule has ... -
Isomorphism in Management of County Governments, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2023)Institutional theory argues that the primary objective of organizational change is formal legitimacy. In other words, organizations adapt their internal characteristics in order to conform with the expectations of the key ... -
Impact of Government Expenditure in Transport Infrastructure on Gross Domestic Product in Kenya
(Academia, 2023)The government of Kenya has continued to increase her expenditure on infrastructure over the years. This has accentuated the need for empirical investigation on the impact of government expenditure on transportation in ... -
Analysis of Postharvest losses in Maize in Western Kenya
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Approaches to Change Resistance Management among County Governments in Kenya
(sfimar research review, 2022)In 2018, the World Bank reported poor performance among counties in Kenya, citing low absorption rates and sluggish project delivery. This has been attributed to insufficient and late disbursement of funding, but the role ... -
Effect of Transactional Rewards on Employee Performance at Teachers Service Commission, Kenya
(The IJBM, 2023)Teachers Service Commission (TSC), Kenya, has been implementing performance management besides transactional rewards since 2005 to enhance quality and cost-effective services. Performance management ensures performance quality ... -
Do Budgeting Practices Affect Saving Behaviour among Small Scale Entrepreneurs in Kenya? Evidence from Kisumu Central Constituency
(ESI Preprints, 2022)World Bank Development Indicators' most recent data reveals that the nation's Gross Domestic Savings as a proportion of gross domestic product(GDP) was 11.09 percent in 2017, 11.64 percent in 2018, ... -
Role of Strategic Investment Approaches on Efficient Performance of Real Estate firms in Kenya
(ESI Preprints, 2022)Resources like time, organizational efforts and materials require efficient management in order to achieve greater outputs. Every organization need to reduce waste in these resources to the minimum possible so as to produce ... -
The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Micro-enterprise Development in Kenya: A Study of Obunga Slum in Kisumu
(Maseno University, 2010)—The performances of small and medium enterprises have stagnated in the last two decades. This has mainly been due to the emergence of HIV / Aids. The disease has had a detrimental effect on the general economy of the ...