The main objective of this study was to determine the challenges hindering success of tourism businesses owned by indigenous entrepreneurs in the tourism industry in Kenya. Empirical literature showed that though tourism ...
The purpose of the study was to assess the barriers to women career progression and the coping strategies employed by women managers in Kenya’s civil service. The study therefore assessed whether gender stereotype, social ...
Osinde Stella Kemunto; Dr Mike Iravo Dr Charles, Dr Mike; Munene, Dr Charles(2014-02-25)
Small Scale Enterprises are acknowledged in Kenya as significant contributors to economic growth and are estimated to contribute 20% and 72% to the Gross Domestic Product and employment respectively. Despite this, it is ...
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The overall objective of the study was to determine the challenges to the growth of hotel MSE businesses in Keroka town, Kisii County Kenya. Specifically the study looked at the extent to managerial skills, ...
This study dealt with the factors influencing compliance of procurement regulations in public secondary schools in Nyamache sub-county. Nyamache sub-county was selected because public schools within the district are worst ...
The purpose of this study was to establish factors that influence the social performance of microfinance
institutions with a specific focus on governance mechanisms. The study used an explanatory and
descriptive research ...
Pension schemes play a fundamental role in an economy as the driving stimulant of savings, liquidity and robustness of capital markets. The current value of assets in the Kenya pension sector is about 17% of the Kenya’s ...
Forecasting is becoming increasingly relevant to producers and consumers in all markets
today. Both for producers and consumers, forecasts are necessary to develop bidding
strategies as well as negotiating skills at the ...
Participation in rotating savings and credit institutions is very prevalent in developing countries including Kenya. This is despite the fact that such participation is costly in terms of the opportunity cost of time spent ...
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a highly prevalent condition and the most common cause
of abnormal vaginal discharge. Despite the high prevalence of BV and associations
with other infections such as HIV-1 and obstetric and ...
Lymphatic Filariasis (LF), a neglected tropical disease (NTD) is targeted by the WHO
for elimination by the year 2020. The principal strategy of elimination is by interruption
of transmission of infection through annual ...
Small and medium enterprises are a vital economic base for any economy as they have
the ability to create employment. A family enterprise is an enterprise that is influenced
by two or more family members through their ...
In Kenya, macadamia (Macadamia integrifolia Maiden and Betche and Macadamia tetraphylla L.A.S. Johnson) is grown mainly for export by over 100,000 small scale and 500 large-scale growers. However, slow decline is a major ...
Venture capital has impacted significantly on performance of Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) in developed countries. In Developed countries small businesses
are the stepping stone of industrialization. However in the ...
Unregulated and inappropriate disposal of wastewater poses serious pollution problems in many
parts of the developing World. However, reuse of wastewater may help to ameliorate global water
shortages, especially in ...
This study sought to determine and analyze the role of supply chain relationships among
small enterprises in Kenya. The target population of this study was small enterprises that
are loan clients of FAULU Kenya.
To ...
The purpose of the study was to explore the degree to which women-led SMEs
embrace the entrepreneurial strategic planning practices (ESPP) dimensions of EO
(Entrepreneurial Orientation), SI (Scanning Intensity), PF ...
In today’s business environment, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cannot afford to
ignore the strategic implications of quality for its competitive position. Research shows
that most SMEs lose between 5%-15% of sales ...
Quality in higher education has been important for decades. In Kenya, quality in universities was embraced some years back by facilitating the vigorous vetting of programmes; matching the programmes with the existing ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of
internationalisation of Information Communication Technology Small and Medium
Enterprises (ICT SMEs) in Kenya and why they do not grow to internationalise. ...