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Social media use in Kenya: an impetus or a deterrent to socio-economic development?
Social media is conceived as a tool for interaction within the information society. With many social media platforms globally, the importance of social media in today’s socio-economic development cannot be disputed. It ...
Building sustainable business development services: empirical evidence from Kenya
The aim of this study was to explain sustainability of Business Development Services
(BDS) in Kenya. The study was conducted through the use of Grounded Theory
methodology on eleven BDS providers, two BDS facilitators ...
The influence of stakeholder identification on the quality of corporate environmental reporting in Kenya
This study aimed at establishing the stakeholders that managers consider in the CER practices as well as the
association between the quality of CER and stakeholder identification. The purpose is to find out if there is ...
Determinants of access to credit by smallholder farmers in Eastern and Western Kenya
The study sought to first determine the level of access to credit financial services, secondly establish the factors that affect smallholder farmer’s access to credit financial services in Eastern and Western Region and ...
Factors affecting institutional transformation for regulated MFIs
Purpose - Regulating microfinance activities has been an important policy concern in improving financial inclusion and extending financial services to all. However, introducing a regulatory framework of any kind pushes ...
Influence of culture on strategic human resource management (SHRM) practices in multinational companies (MNC) in Kenya: a critical literature review
Extant theories of strategic human resource management (SHRM) practices and cultures have generally adopted on the one hand the assumption that organizations develop a culture of their own that is distinct from the national ...
The right to use customary law systems for water governance: a case of the Marakwet of Kenya
In many common law jurisdictions, legal systems for water resource governance are conceived primarily in the context of statutory law. However, in many cases water resource development and management, particularly at the ...
An M&E mobile based application for Pico PV lighting solutions for the “Kerosene Free Kenya” project
This paper describes the use of a mobile based application used as a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) tool to a pilot project supported by the National Council for Science and Technology of Kenya (NCST) which seeks to ...
From rhetoric to practice: a study on the right to accessible and adequate housing in Kenya
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides, among other things, that “everyone has
the right to an adequate standard of living…including the right to housing.”1
This has been
defined by the first Special Rapporteur ...
Empirical aspects of capital flight in Kenya, 1970-2009
Capital flight remains a fundamental academic and policy issue for developing countries. During the early 1990s the debt crisis appeared to have been contained and attention to the capital flight phenomenon waned. However, ...