ABSTRACT Agriculture in Kenya attracts several stakeholders including agrochemical companies. Since the return on investment is considerably high, the sector has experienced several new entrants selling and marketing agrochemical products in Kenya since 2010. As a result, large agrochemical companies have developed and adopted several strategies evident from 2014. For survival, these strategies have to be implemented successfully; this normally is contingent to many factors. For a successful ...
ABSTRACT This research project focused on the environmental challenges affecting performance of the cement industry in Kenya with a case of East African Portland Cement Company. The background of the study gave an overview, structure, characteristic, and the performance of cement industry in the World, Africa, East Africa and Kenya. Problem statement hinged on key performance indicators such as; capacity utilization, cost of sales and finance costs. The study was guided by the following speci...
ABSTRACT Supply chain management (SCM) has received in recent years a great deal of attention by researchers and practitioners. The oil industry works as a global supply chain involving exploration, material handling, domestic and international transportation, use of technology, and so on. The industry offers a strong model for implementing supply chain management (SCM) techniques. The purpose of this study is to establish factors affecting supply chain management by oil companies in Kenya. T...
ABSTRACT The financial performance of any organization is crucial dependent on the efficient management of working capital management. In virtually all cases, educational institutions is afflicted by poor financial performance due to its unique approach to the management of working capital which involves more of accounts payables and receivables than any other working capital management practises. Due to prevailing economic conditions, these Middle level Colleges are financially weakened by t...
ABSTRACT The balanced scorecard model is a strategic planning and management tool that is used extensively in business and industry, government, and nonprofit organizations worldwide to align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization, improve internal and external communications, and monitor organization‟s performance against strategic goals. The balanced score card has been used by various organizations in Kenya as a performance appraisal tool. Most commercial bank...
ABSTRACT In many cases the output of the process of strategic planning, the school strategy, fails to get implemented or is implemented in a form, which is quite different from the original intent making success elusive. For instance, in the KCSE results for the year 2015, less than half of the entire cohort that sat for the examination scored a mean grade of C+ and above, which is the university entry minimum requirement, despites there being a long-term plan for the education sector at the ...
ABSTRACT In recent researches, organization performance has been the key point, due to the dynamism of the operating parameters in the environment of airlines and other business entities. In the recent years, performance in the airline industry globally, regionally and locally has been unstable more so due to the dynamism of the environmental parameters that the aviation industry is characterized with. Organizations in this industry therefore ought to withstand the market and industry dynamic...
ABSTRACT Small and Medium Enterprises play a major role in the social economic development of any country, however these enterprises face investment decision problems which inhibit their financial performance. Poor investment decisions have been blamed for high rate of failure and closure. Thus, the purpose of the study was to determine the effects of investment appraisal techniques and financial performance among small and medium enterprises in Nairobi County, Kenya. The objectives of the s...
ABSTRACT Globalization has led to inflow of cheap leather products from such countries as China eroding the competitive position of Bata Shoe Company. The general objective of the study was to investigate differentiation strategy and performance of Bata Shoe Company Nairobi City County, Kenya. The specific objective of the study was to establish the effect of product development, to determine the effect of product branding, to determine the effect of packaging design and to determine the effe...
ABSTRACT Demand for electricity in Kenya is currently growing at a rate higher than the growth in supply. KenGen, as a major player in the electricity sector developed a strategic plan (2008-2012) which if implemented successfully would stabilize the equation for electricity supply and demand in the country, and increase its installed capacity from 912MW to 1510MW by 2012. Implementation of this strategic plan has however dwindled, with most projects running late or stalled. By the end of 201...
ABSTRACT The productivity of commercial banks in Kenya has been under intense scrutiny in the recent past owing to the unprecedented failure of some top mid-tier banking institutions. This is occurring despite comprehensive regulatory mechanism being in place. This research sought to examine the strategies adopted by commercial banks in response to poor productivity of certain operators in the financial sector. Further, despite varying mechanism having been undertaken by commercial banks tow...
ABSTRACT The trading with derivatives has developed over a long period of time though the greatest impact has been felt over the last three decades. Derivatives markets have changed overtime from trading with the simple contracts to very advanced and exotic instruments. Though Kenya has been lagging behind in the derivative markets development, a lot of ground work has been put in place for the trading with legislature in place and the CMA putting up a department to oversee the development. ...
ABSTRACT Very few deposit-taking microfinance institutions in Kenya are profitable. Most of them report loses in every financial year. The making of the losses may be a result of inefficiency in financial leverage, thus formed the foundation of the study that investigated the effect of financial leverage on profitability in deposit-taking microfinance institutions in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were the effect of short term debt, long term debt and the equ...
Abstract The purpose of this study is to model volatility effects between the United States of America stock markets and volatility of the East African securities markets during the global financial downturn of 2007-2009. The period was divided into three sub-sample phases; pre-crisis:-January 2006 to December 2007; In-crisis:-January 2008 to March 2009; Post crisis:-March 2009 to December 2010. A modified Asymmetric Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedastic (E-GARCH 4,1) model w...
ABSTRACT Employees' turnover poses a recurrent challenge to most business organization globally. There is virtually no organization that is immune to employees' turnover; be its small size or big size organizations; they are all exposed to employees' turnover. Although it may not be feasible for any organization to totally eliminate employees' turnover due to various reasons, nevertheless it could be reduced to the barest minimum. For any organization to run and actualize its objectives ther...