ABSTRACT Strategic alliance is one of many methods of strategy development. It has been defined as a situation where two or more organizations share resources and activities to pursue a strategy. Alliances vary considerably in their complexity, from a simple two partner alliance co-producing a product to a one with multiple partners providing complex products, services and solution. Research on strategic collaboration between firms has received increasing attention in literature during the la...
ABSTRACT Research institutions are here for social good. Parastatal research institutions engage in activities relating to social and economic rights and are formed not to be suppliers of the goods and services but to advance knowledge and provide Science and technological support. However recent trends in the research sector from 2015 to date show increased beneficiaries on one hand but high employee turnover and de-motivation on another. This suggests a shortfall in application of knowledge...
ABSTRACT Public Private Partnership (PPP) is a long term agreement between public and private sector where risks and rewards are shared in developing a public facility. Private sector play a monumental role in bridging public finance deficit on capital projects. In Kenya, the government has created necessary environment for private sector participation in the country’s infrastructure development to spur economic growth. Despite the enactment of requisite laws and political support of PPPs, ...
ABSTRACT The insurance industry is a lucrative field with vast opportunities to explore. There has been a growth of insurance business in Kenya, with 2017 reports from AKI for instance showing an increase of about 43.8% of insurance agents from the year 2016. Previous studies have shown individuals and entities go without taking insurance covers to safe guard their entities. Regulators have been seen to put mandatory adoption of insurance services such as in the public service vehicles sector...
ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) sector has continued to play an important role in the economy both globally and regionally. The Kenyan government has therefore encouraged the commercial banks to provide credit facilities to this important sector of economy. However, reports have indicated that there is low accessibility of credit facilities among the SMEs from the commercial banks. This study therefore sought to determine the effect of small and medium enterprises challenges on a...
ABSTRACT This work investigated the effectiveness of pricing as a tool for marketing banking services in Nigeria. This has become necessary in view of the persistent altering of Nigerian banking landscape since the advent of Federal Government Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) in 1986. Structural Adjustment programme ushered in a period of bank market liberalization that lowered the industrial entering and exit requirements, introduced deregulation in the industry and offered banking mod...
ABSTRACT The study examines the extent of application of strategic management in Nigerian tertiary health care institutions, and investigates: • top managements' understanding of different environmental factors and problems affecting their hospitals. • the extent to which differential variables (management background and experience) of the CMD contribute to organizational effectiveness • the extent to which the Board of Directors influence on the CMD has contributed to organizational ef...
ABSTRACT Micro finance institutions contribute towards a country’s economic growth, employment creation, poverty reduction and development of an industrial base. According to the Bureau of Statistics economic survey of 2017, Micro Finance Institutions contributed to 20% of Kenya’s GDP. However, according to an article in the Daily Nation in 2017 Kenya Women Finance Trust lost about 800 employees in a span of two years. The institution developed and implemented appropriate Human Resource M...
ABSTRACT Strategic Plan Implementation (SPI) refers to the process of developing an organization-wide strategy that can be executed over the course of a long period of time; usually between one and five years and uses factors such as leadership, structure and resource allocation alignment, to improve customer service quality, satisfaction and clientele growth. Whereas many studies look at single factor relationships with strategic implementation and performance these factors never exist singl...
ABSTRACT Devolution has worked in different parts of the world, US, India, Nigeria, Sweden, UK and South Africa. Counties will draw experiences from similar environments and factors that bring them closer and learn how they operate, benchmark their strengths and transfer that knowledge and experience to benefit the county. But the counties vary in their level of development. The County Government of Vihiga has continued to face a number of challenges. According to reports in The County Fiscal...
ABSTRACT Globally, organizations need marketing strategies to strive and generate superior financial performance. According to Economy survey 2016, five out of seven new small scale enterprises in Kenya do not experience growth in sales volume and profit. In Kisumu, very few small scale enterprises have grown into large formal enterprises, an adverse scenario which may or may not be attributed to market orientation. A number of studies have focused on effect of market orientation on organizat...
ABSTRACT Micro finance institutions contribute towards a country’s economic growth, employment creation, poverty reduction and development of an industrial base. According to the Bureau of Statistics economic survey of 2017, Micro Finance Institutions contributed to 20% of Kenya’s GDP. However, according to an article in the Daily Nation in 2017 Kenya Women Finance Trust lost about 800 employees in a span of two years. The institution developed and implemented appropriate Human Resource M...
ABSTRACT Globally, Kenya inclusive evidence shows that Radio remains crucial in the advertising market and development of democracy. Despite this, evidence shows that these firms face challenges in their performance in terms of customer satisfaction, growth and social performance leading to revenue decline from 13.4% to 6.8% between 2012 to 2017. This decline may be attributed to the radio firms marketing strategies, particularly market challenger strategies. Empirical evidence on market chal...
ABSTRACT This study explores the empirical significance of justice perception and organizational citizenship behaviour of employees in small and medium enterprises in Lagos state, Nigeria. It also aims at establishing the moderating role of organizational commitment, job satisfaction, propensity to leave, and task performance, on the relationship between justice perception and organizational citizenship behaviour. The purpose of the study is to assist managers and operators of SMEs in Nigeri...
ABSTRACT This study is concerned with exploring the relationship between job performance and motivation using data from five federal ministries in Nigeria. The aim is to build a behavioural model of the relationship between job performance and motivation. The conceptual model of the study is that job performance is a function of motivation Personal characteristics are proposed as mediating factors. The model is from the standpoint of middle level officers and their bosses in the Nigerian publ...