ABSTRACT Accessibility of credit is vital for the development of any sector in the country. There has been a big challenge in the country in financing the agricultural sector. The research study aims at analysing the various challenges facing accessibility of credit from Commercial banks for financing agricultural sectors in Kenya. The study was carried out in the various Commercial banks in Nyeri County. Kenya has a total of forty three commercial banks. Out of this, Nyeri County has a total...
ABSTRACT Pharmaceutical firms are vulnerable to changes in their operating environment in many ways and these have great consequences on their operation. As a result of this vulnerability manufacturing firms are required to be proactive and able to formulate and adopt appropriate competitive strategies that will enable them to overcome the competitive challenges they experience in the environment they operate in. This study sought to determine generic competitive strategies and the performanc...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish the impact of enterprise risk management practice on the performance of the 34 commercial state corporations in Kenya. The study was guided by the following objectives:- to determine whether risk control self-assessment affects the performance of commercial state corporations in Kenya; to establish how identification of risk indicators affects the performance of commercial state corporations in Kenya; to examine whether incident management a...
ABSTRACT The study was undertaken to assess the impact of foreign direct investment on the growth of selected flower firms in Naivasha, Kenya. The broad objective of the study was to assess the impact ofFDI on the growth of selected flower firms in Naivasha, Kenya. More specifically, it sought to assess the relationship between technology transfer, technical assistance and capital investment and growth of the flower firms. The research design method used was sample survey since its inexp...
ABSTRACT Despite advances in project management methodologies many projects continue to fail. A project’s success or failure is in part, contingent on effectively managing the constraints of scope, time, costs, and quality expectations. In order to achieve this, it is essential that the project manager possess and display appropriate project management leadership. The study identified four aspects of leadership and investigated their effect on performance of projects. The specific objectiv...
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of business operating environment has called on business leaders to be strategic in their leadership roles if they are to sustain their competitiveness into the unforeseen future. Growth is important in Sacco’s because it is future oriented establishing ways in which the organizational operations can be aligned to future changes in the business environment to ensure that competitiveness is sustained. The SACCOs in Kenya have experienced problems in the past; some...
ABSTRACT Project implementation by Safaricom limited has been a major concern to project teams, financiers and beneficiaries. This may be attributed to the fact that a number of projects that have been rolled out have failed to achieve the desired goals. Some have stalled at different stages of their development while others are completed but do not bring the anticipated impact whether financial, social, economic, physical or even institutional. Therefore, this study aimed to establish the ef...
ABSTRACT. Banks are essential due to their contribution in the economic success of countries. However, the intermediation performed via banks is dependent on the banks performance. Banks’ financial performance is the core mandate in venturing into business. Commercial banks in Kenya have continued to experience poor performance which is shown in the return on equity of banks. This has over the years been a major source of concern in Kenya’s financial sector. Performance of banks is accred...
ABSTRACT Even though millions of women all over the world contribute a lot to the national agricultural output and family food security, several studies from Sub Saharan Africa reveal that rural women are credit constrained than men of equivalent socio economic conditions. Therefore, rural women, who form the majority of the rural population, are exposed to economic disability. Kwale County in Kenya being part of the larger Sub Saharan Africa is not an exception. Kwale District Development P...
ABSTRACT Successful organizations recognize the significance of strategy as a tool in administration and understand that their survival is reliant on how well they adopt new strategies or improve existing strategies in an effort to respond to changes brought about by the environment. While the quality of strategy is imperative, we cannot overlook the importance of effectively implementing the strategy. Numerous organizations seem to have problems in executing their strategies. This study soug...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the shortcomings of dairy entrepreneurs management practices strategies and the effect of these on performance of their dairy enterprises in Nandi County. The overall aim of the research was to investigate the influence of commercialization strategies on performance of dairy enterprises. The study sought to determine how commercialization strategies; that is feeding, breeding, disease control and husbandry, as they are currently practiced contribute to the perf...
ABSTRACT Major emergencies, disasters and other crises is no respecter of national borders and never occur at convenient times. The magnitude of human suffering caused by these events is huge, and many aspects of people’s lives are affected – businesses, health, security, housing, access to food, water and other life commodities, to name but a few. That is why it is vital to have emergency plans in place, so that the effects of disasters on people and their assets can be mitigated, and a ...
ABSTRACT The Kenya development plan 2007 projected an annual economic growth rate of ten percent for the next twenty five years. To achieve this objective, the capital market was identified as a critical avenue that could be used to mobilize investment funds required for implementation of vision 2030 projects. The government therefore has been implementing financial deepening strategies aimed at quickening the pace, development and contribution of the capital market. However, despite the well...
ABSTRACT The general objective of this research study was to investigate effect of BPR on performance of Pharmacy and Poisons Board.The findings in this study will be beneficial to scholars in the business process reengineering to identify gaps that need to be expounded upon. This study will also be important to the various users of this research information who include government regulators, Pharmacy and Poisons Board, other medical regulatory bodies, government agencies, donors, other stak...
ABSTRACT Corporate strategy has been driven by different forces in the past, by production pressures, personnel pressures, and more lately by information pressures. This decade as well as the next shows clear signs of corporate strategy being driven by environmental pressures. Implementation of environmental management strategies is one of mechanisms that have been developed by organizations to enable them manage their activities. The aim of study was to investigate the determinants of imple...