Cash holding has received considerable attention worldwide due to concern that firms are holding ―too much‖ liquidity in spite of the fact that cash is a low return asset. Recent research has been centered on establishing whether firm characteristics determine its cash holding. This study was undertaken due to the mixed results in the findings in earlier studies carried out on the international scene and limited research on the subject locally. The main purpose of this study was to e...
This study sought to examine the influence of internal resources on the strategic posture that business hotels took. Internal resources were determined as physical facilities, managerial competences, business processes and technology. The study subjected the internal resources to the strategic posture dimensions of risk, proactivity, innovation and competitive aggressiveness to examine proactive or reactive posture. The moderating variable was organizational culture, which is also an int...
The Sub-Saharan Africa trails other regions about key human development indicators, produces less than 1 percent of the global research output despite having 12.5 percent of the global population. If the region is to advance on its human capital developmentindicators, it must embrace action research in taking advantage of the untapped opportunities existing. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effects of strategic leadership on organizational performance in private universities...
ABSTRACT The study sought to establish the effect of outsourcing on institutional performance in public institutions and it used Uganda’s National Planning Authority as a case study. The objectives were to ascertain the relationship between the dimensions of the independent variable (outsourcing) and the dependent variable (institutional performance). The study adopted a cross-sectional survey (mixed methods) design and the sample size was 71 respondents. The researcher used a questionnair...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the organizational factors that influence the performance of employees at the College of Computing and Information Sciences (COCIS), Makerere University, Kampala. The objectives of the study were: to examine how organizational culture influences employee performance at COCIS, Makerere University; to establish the relationship between organizational communication and employee performance at COCIS, Makerere University; and to find out how organizational commitme...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between oil management and the resource curse in Hoima District. The study was premised on three specific objectives: to analyze the relationship between planning for oil exploration/production and a resource curse in Hoima District, to examine the relationship between coordination of oil exploration/production and a resource curse in Hoima District and to assess the relationship between monitoring of oil exploration/production and a resource curs...
Introduction This study seeks to examine the interaction of manufacturing paradigms of lean, agile and their combination (leagile manufacturing) with plant performance of firms in developing countries. This is topic that has been debated in a number of previous studies (Arnab , 2012; Mattias & Jan , 2009; Helio, Goran, & Vaibhav, 2012; Thaeir, 2014; Rajesh & Charlene , 2007). Most of the contribution made in these previous works has majorly focused on experiences of firms in developed countr...
ABSTRACT Distributing a newspaper calls for creation of marketing channels through which it will move from the publishing house to the end-user (the reader). In this study, the researcher set out to assess the effect of channel design, channel administration and channel management technologies on the sales performance of the Daily Monitor Newspaper, a publication of Monitor Publications Limited. Quantitative data was collected from 226 respondents and analyzed to derive the following finding...
Poor cash handling practices by commercial banks leads to massive losses that ultimately leads to a negative performance and in extreme circumstances, closure of the commercial banks. The rising cases of fraud as a result of poor cash handling practices in the Kenyan commercial banks since 2011 have been overwhelming. This is evidenced by recent cases of cash in transit being stolen by security firms contracted to transport the cash. The continuous increase in cases of poor cash handling...
Introduction This chapter covers historical, theoretical, conceptual plus contextual background to the study, statement of the problem, purpose of the study, objectives of the study, hypotheses, conceptual framework, scope of the study, geographical scope and significance of the study. Trade credit is an agreement involving purchase of goods and services without immediate payment. This practice is used by all business entities in both developed and developing nations (Leire & Cowton, 2009, R...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to find out the Institutional factors affecting loan performance at Uganda Development Bank Limited (UDBL). The study was motivated by the hypothesis that bank-specific variables have an effect on loan repayment. The institutional factors were categorized into staff-related factors, credit policy-related factors, and Management Information System-related factors. A survey was undertaken and questionnaires were distributed to the Bank's credit staff and ...
The objective of this study was to investigate the antecedents of standards compliance for the internationalisation of Kenyan horticulture. This was achieved by answering to specific objectives related to the influence of exporters’ awareness of standards compliance and exporters’ competences; input use, technology use, and infrastructure on the internationalisation of Kenyan horticulture with the moderating role of regulatory framework. This study was mainly anchored on the Competit...
This study set out to determine the influence of manager characteristics on strategy implementation by private universities in Kenya. The study was guided by manager demographics, manager personality and manager communication as the independent variables,while strategy implementation was the dependent variable and manager discretion the moderating variable. This approach essentially integrates the theoretical perspectives of the upper echelons theory and Higgin’s 8 S’s Model under t...
The funding risk borne by sponsors of defined benefit pension funds and the residual risk borne by members of defined contribution pension funds have necessitated focus on the investment strategies employed by pension funds. Trustees, managers and regulators of occupational retirement benefits schemes are struggling to find ways of addressing these challenges, as investment strategies contribute to the retirement benefits of their members. There is therefore a need to gain a better under...
ABSTRACT This study focused on the influence of EcoCash on commercial banks’ strategies in Zimbabwe. The study was motivated by the fact that banks failed to ensure financial inclusion and to take advantage of unbanked market and this resulted in Econet seeing an opportunity and launched EcoCash. EcoCash has had a huge impact and its accounts exceed total bank accounts. Objectives of the study were to examine reasons for the emergence of EcoCash, to assess the influence of EcoCash on Zimbab...