School of Business & Economics (JA): Recent submissions
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Effects of Social and Community Issues in Inter-Ethnic Conflicts on Economic Growth in Selected sub-counties in Kenya
(African Research Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2021)The Government efforts in mitigating the vice has bone no fruits as the number of deaths keeps on rising from an estimate of 7, 9 and 13 people in 2012, 2014 and 2016 respectively.The main purpose of the study was therefore ... -
Information Seeking Behavior of Students with Visual Imparements: A Case of Kenyatta University Library.
(2019-06)The point of the study was to set up the outwardly hindered students‟ information looking for practices, which contains information needs, looking for and use. The students‟ information looking for conduct was plotted ... -
Assessing the Drivers of Enhanced Auditors Performance: A Case Study in Public Universities in Kenya
(2021-06)The study evaluated the key drivers of enhanced auditor’s performance in public universities in Kenya. The study posits that work environment, auditor’s competence, independence and authority have not significant effects ... -
Economics evaluation of relative profitability in small hold dairy farms in western Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2009-05)The development and implementation of farm policies requires the general understanding of the farmers’ response to the availed technology. Where farmers have similar resource endowment, generalization of policies would ... -
Factor Substitution in Integrated Maize-Dairy Farming System in Uasin Gishu District
(2020-07)This study looked at the existence of jointedness in production, cost complementarity and factor substitution in small hold mixed maize and dairy production system. The smallholder farmers in UasinGishu County practise ... -
The Influence of Non-Equity Financing on Maize Production in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya
(2013)Uasin Gishu County produces about 3.29 million bags of maize, which is 14.3% of the national output of 23 million bags. The production is associated with increasing cost, yet the area under production has at most stagnated. ... -
Effects of Subsidies on Irrigation Development in Kenya: Lessons from Irrigated Maize Production in Kenya
(2020-07)This study assessed maize productivity in irrigated fields in Kenya. The study used household surveys, KIIs and FGDs as the samples from which data was collected and analyzed to provide detailed information on the current ... -
Rural poverty and input use efficiency in smallholder dairy farms in western Kenya
(2014-09)Increasing agricultural productivity depends on the adoption of modern technology that involves the use of modern improved technical embodied inputs. However, farmers have different production decisions and ability to ... -
Deepening Market Integration In Kenya through Increased maize production
(2021-06)Market integration promotes effective market reform in developing countries. Where there is a of market integration, markets are competitive and there is no justification for costly government interventions designed to ... -
The influence of privatised agricultural extension on downward accountability to smallholder tea farmers
(2021-06)Purpose To assess the extent to which privatised extension service, which is premised to be demand-driven, delivers downward accountability to smallholder farmers who are both owners and users of agricultural services. ... -
Factors Influencing Pastoral Household Livestock-Dependent Incomes in Selected Areas of Turkana and West Pokot Counties of Kenya
(2020-09)This study was designed to determine factors influencing pastoral household livestock-dependent incomes in selected areas of Turkana and West Pokot counties in Kenya, and to find out if the choice of veterinary delivery ... -
Climate Variability, Land-Use, Pastoral and Agropastoral Livelihoods in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas of Kenya
(2021-05)Kenya's arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) are experiencing climate variability, especially rainfall and temperature alterations. Rainfall is recognised as one of the critical parameters influencing land-use dynamics and ... -
Gender Roles in Wetlands Conservation and Restoration in Murang’a County, Kenya
(2021-06)Women are the majority vulnerable in wetlands access and control, yet livelihood provisioning services bring her in direct contact with and control of wetlands on a daily basis. Murang’a County is majorly a patriarchal ... -
Sustainability of Livelihood Strategies of Riparian Communities in Murang’a County, Kenya.
(2021-06)Wetlands have played a key role in support of the riparian community’s livelihoods and development and have been the source of forest, wildlife, minerals, agriculture, recreation, water and energy. Murang’a County in Kenya, ... -
E-Supplier Management Practices on Supply Chain Performance of Sugar Processing Firms in Kenya
(2021-06)The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of electronic supplier management practices on supply chain performance of sugar processing firms. The target population is 7,584 employees of sugar processing firms ... -
Effect of Training on the Effectiveness of Supply Chain Management in the Kenyan Public Sector
(2015-03)It is a common practice by most firms to cut or freeze training budget whenever the economic conditions are hard or even suspend training programs altogether. The aim of this study is to find out the effect of training on ... -
Information technology and effectiveness of supply chain management in the Kenya public sector.
(2015)Main objective of the study was to establish factors affecting effectiveness of supply chain management in Kenyan public sector with, specific reference to the Ministry of Finance. The study’s specific objective is to ... -
Factors Affecting Purchasing Effectiveness in the Public Sugar Sector: A Case Study of Nzoia Sugar Company Limited
(2014-06)In the recent past, procurement performance has been attracting great attention from practitioners, academicians and researchers due to poor performance resulting from non adherence to proper processes and procedures. Many ... -
Internal Customer Satisfaction Assessment in the Public sector: A case study of Fleet management services delivery.
(2014-09)Internal customer satisfaction is a major component of quality improvement that most companies should embrace together with developing strategies to improve quality of external customer service. When the internal customer ... -
Factors Influencing Supply Chain Performance in the Public Sugar Sector - A Case of Nzoia Sugar Company Limited
(2014-12)This paper sought to evaluate the effect of technology adoption, early supplier involvement, low-cost sourcing and backward integration on supply chain performance in the public sugar sector, guided by four objectives: To ...
