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Influence of Procurement Ethics Compliance on Service Delivery of County Governments in Western Kenya
No full textPurpose: To determine the influence of procurement ethics compliance on service delivery of county governments in Western Kenya
Design/Methodology/Approach: The study covered 4 counties in western region. The study employed a descriptive research design. The study population was 96 respondents drawn from the county procurement department staff, internal audit, and county treasury and were all reached through census. Closed ended questions were used to gather data. Pilot study was conducted in Trans Nzoia County government where the pilot test was done to ascertain whether the instruments were valid and reliable. Descriptive and inferential statistics were conducted. Inferential statistical approaches included regression and correlation analysis. Descriptive analyses used were frequencies and percentages while data was presented by use of tables.
Implications/Originality/Value: The study found that procurement ethics had positive significant effect on service delivery for county governments in Western region, Kenya, 0thereby 0rejecting 0the 0study's 0null 0hypotheses. The study recommends that County governments should strive to implement ethical procurement procedure
Effect of Digital Payments on Financial Performance of Mutual Funds in Kenya
No full textPurpose: Mutual funds in Kenya play an integral role in economic development, especially towards the realization of Vision 2030 on financial stability which is anchored on the economic pillar that emphasizes wealth creation opportunities for all. It provides a platform for professional asset management which offers investors the advantage of wealth creation at affordable levels of asset ownership by utilizing unit trust through portfolio diversification. Digital processing of payments offers a professional way of wealth management.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Technology acceptance model was used. Mixed research design combining descriptive and panel design with both primary and secondary data was utilized. Descriptive statistics, correlation, and multiple regression techniques were used guided by the pragmatic philosophy.
Findings: Major findings indicate a positive effect of digital payments on performance of mutual funds. Fund size has a moderating effect on the relationship between digital payments and fund performance. The study concluded that digital payments is a key enabler of mutual fund performance in Kenya, particularly when adopted strategically and scaled effectively according to fund size.
Implications/Originality/Value: Its concluded that digital payments enhances fund performance. The study contributes to the growing body of knowledge on financial technology adoption in emerging markets
Mechanism Role of Investment Strategies for Investment Performance: Investigating the Impact of Personality Traits: A Case of Behavioral Finance
No full textPurpose: This study investigates the mechanism role of investment strategies in mediating the relationship between personality traits and investment performance within the behavioral finance framework. Drawing upon the Big Five personality models and established investment analysis approaches, this research examines how individual differences in personality characteristics influence investment strategy preferences and subsequent performance outcomes among individual investors.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Using a quantitative cross-sectional design, primary data were collected from 401 individual investors through an online survey instrument. The research employed validated personality measures, measuring neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience, and agreeableness. Investment strategies were operationalized through three distinct analytical approaches: fundamental analysis, technical analysis, and calendar analysis. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was utilized to test the proposed theoretical model.
Findings: The results reveal that personality traits significantly influence investment strategy preferences, which in turn affect investment performance outcomes.
Implications/Originality/Value The results reveal that personality traits significantly influence investment strategy preferences, which in turn affect investment performance outcomes
Social and Educational Challenges impacting the Quality of Higher Education in Pakistan: Perception of University Students
No full textPurpose: Higher education plays vital role in socioeconomic development and innovation, providing individuals with opportunities to enhance their knowledge, skills and career prospects. In Pakistan the quality of higher education remains a persistent concern due to a range of social and educational challenges that limit its accessibility and effectiveness. Despite efforts to improve the higher education sector, many university students in Pakistan continue to face barriers that effect their learning atmosphere, engagement and academic performance. Understanding these challenges from students’ perspective is crucial to identify gaps and meaningful reforms. The purpose of the study was to investigate the educational challenges and social challenges impacting the quality of higher education in Pakistan
Design/Methodology/Approach: This was quantitative research which employed descriptive research design.
Findings: The results revealed that educational challenges perceived by students were: outdated curriculum, teacher behavior, and traditional methods of teaching, lack of student support services and research work. They perceived nepotism, political interference, access, equity and socio-cultural norms as social challenges that impact the quality of higher education in Pakistan.
Implications/Originality/Value: So it is recommended that regular training of teachers, availability of students’ support services, revision of curriculum, provision of funds for research work, and ensuring equity and access of higher education may contribute in raising quality of higher education in Pakistan
Post-COVID-19 Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Influence of Creativity, Mindset, and Self-Efficacy in Entrepreneurship Education
No full textPurpose: This research is aimed at exploring creativity, entrepreneurial attitude, & self-efficacy role in entrepreneurial intentions among Pakistani university undergraduates in the post-COVID-19 period and entrepreneurship education (EE) as a key mediator.
Design/Methodology/Approach: A survey of 206 management students (quantitative) was conducted and evaluated based on PLS-SEM to examine direct and mediating effects, and validated scales were utilized to measure all the constructs.
Findings: The results indicate that entrepreneurial intention is significantly and positively defined by creativity, mindset, and self-efficacy, with the highest direct impact being identified as with the creativity (b = 0.36). Most importantly, EE has a significant mediating role in all three correlations, enhancing the effects of mindset (b = 0.29), self-efficacy (b = 0.10), and creativity (b = 0.16) on intention, as an agent that translates psychological factors into practical objectives.
Implications/Originality/Value: The research is a unique validation of EE as a transformative mediator in a post-pandemic context with resource restrictions, a progressive contribution to Theory of Planned Behavior and Social Cognitive Theory. It demonstrates creativity as the core motivator of intent, threatening Western-centric theories, and offers practical evidence to policy makers and practitioners to plan experiential, confidence-building, and creativity inspired EE programs that would help youth develop innovative capabilities and economic sustainability in developing economies
Talent Identification and Staff Performance of Public Hospitals in Busia County
No full textPurpose: To establish the effect of talent identification on staff performance of public hospitals in Busia County
Design/Methodology/Approach: An explanatory research design was employed, targeting 255 employees across 11 public hospitals in Busia County, with data collected through structured questionnaires. A pilot study involving 25 respondents from Matungu Hospital in Kakamega County was conducted to pretest the research instrument. Piloting would help identify ambiguities and ensure clarity, allowing for necessary adjustments before the main data collection. To ensure validity, the study used expert review to assess content and construct validity, while reliability was tested using Cronbach’s alpha to determine the internal consistency of the research instrument, with a threshold of 0.7 considered acceptable. Data was analyzed using both descriptive statistics (frequencies, means, standard deviations) and inferential statistics (regression analysis, correlation, and moderation analysis) via SPSS software
Findings: The study found that talent identification had strong relationships with staff performance in Public Hospitals in Busia County Kenya. Talent identification had a statistically significant contribution to the staff performance of Public Hospitals in Busia County (b=0.516 t=26.110 p=0.000<0.05).
Implications/Originality/Value: The study recommends that Public Hospitals should ensure that they prioritize the key factors that impact their staff performance
Impact of BIM Adoption on Project Performance: The Mediating Role of Resource Efficiency and Moderating Role of Stakeholder Collaboration
No full textPurpose: This research explores the effect of BIM adoption on project performance with the focus on the mediation of resource efficiency and the moderating factor of stakeholder work with each other. Through the combination of these essential aspects, the study will help to obtain a thorough insight into the possible ways of maximizing the use of resources, minimizing wastages, and enhancing the effectiveness of the construction projects with the use of BIM.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The study adopts a quantitative, cross-sectional survey design. The design is further enhanced by incorporating Hayes PROCESS Model 5, which enables simultaneous testing of mediation and moderation effects.
Findings: Using a sample of 170 construction professionals and Hayes PROCESS Model 5, the study found that BIM adoption significantly improves resource efficiency and that resource efficiency, in turn, significantly improves project performance. Resource efficiency fully mediates the BIM → performance relationship; stakeholder collaboration did not moderate the direct path in this analysis.
Implications/Originality/Value: The findings provide both theoretical refinement (process-mediated view of BIM) and concrete directions for practitioners and policymakers in developing economies like Pakistan. The results support a process-oriented view of BIM: BIM yields organizational capabilities (resource efficiency) that then drive performance. This empirical evidence strengthens RBV-type reasoning that treating BIM as a capability (or enabler of capabilities) is more insightful than viewing it as an isolated technological input. This study presents practical results through a quantitative analysis of how organizations can use BIM to achieve improved project deliverables. The result will add to both the academic literature and the industry practice in order to help stakeholders to achieve maximum benefits of implementing BIM
A Bibliometric Analysis of Sustainability Reporting via Social Media
No full textPurpose: In this study, the bibliometric methodology is used to investigate how research on sustainability reporting using social media has evolved over time. The primary goal is to trace the intellectual, thematic, and methodological evolution of this field of research as well as to comprehend how the digital platforms have transformed the idea of sustainability communication.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The review examines 423 articles published no earlier than 2006 and found in Scopus. The publication patterns, intellectual basis as well as the development of themes were mapped using bibliometric techniques such as the descriptive analysis, co-citation analysis and the key word co-occurrence analysis. The relationships between authors, theories, and the themes of research were identified through network visualization tools.
Findings: The findings include that the number of publications in the years after 2014 grew significantly, which suggests the growing academic attention to sustainability reporting through social media. They revealed five areas of research dominance, which include: corporate legitimacy and greenwashing, stakeholder engagement and dialogic communication, ESG performance transparency, strategic CSR communication and data-driven sentiment analysis. The most commonly used theoretical lenses are the legitimacy theory, the stakeholder theory, the institutional theory, the dialogic communication theory and the management relevance theory. Interdisciplinary outlooks and AI-driven approaches to analyzing sentiment and natural language processing gain popularity as the subject of more recent studies.
Implications/Originality/Value: The bibliometric review provides a systematic summary of the topic, the emergent trends, and gaps involving platform governance, Global South settings, and algorithmic effect on ESG stories, suggesting a basis on upcoming researc
Curriculum Developers’ Reflections on the Expanded Core Curriculum for Learners with Visual Impairment
No full textPurpose: The ECC is a cornerstone to providing equitable education for students who have visual impairments vision. Its development should be based local conditions and professional knowledge. This qualitative research investigate the views of those who worked on developing ECC for learners with visual impairments.
Design/Methodology/Approach: A semi-structured interviews was used to collect data. To interpret data, systematic thematic analysis was used. This study explores how the ECC was developed; what it consists of; whether there are content gaps relative to international standards.
Findings: Findings of this study indicated that there was no standardized framework, specialized representation of professionals, organized and established procedure to develop this ECC. These shortcomings also include gaps in content, lack of resources, materials and lacks in introduction of modern skills and technologies. Furthermore, feedback mechanism, collaboration and involvement of stakeholders were also absent. In addition to all these gaps attitudinal barriers also effects the development of intended ECC.
Implications/Originality/Value: This study proposed evidence-based recommendations for the development of a contextually relevant, standardized, and comprehensive, ECC framework for learners with visual impairments by specific professionals. The findings of this study may offer foundations for policymakers, curriculum developers, and educators in improving educational practices in limited resource
Effect of Labour Mobility Socio Cultural Factors on Service Delivery: Evidence from Selected Refugee Organizations in Kenya
No full textPurpose: The study focused on Effect of Socio-Cultural Factors on Service Delivery of Refugee Organizations: Evidence from Selected refugees in Kenya.
Design/Methodology: The study utilized descriptive and explanatory research designs targeting 300 employees of dominant Refugee Organizations operating in Kakuma Refugee camp in Turkana West Sub County, Turkana County, Kenya. Mixed purposive sampling technique was used. Structured questionnaires aided data collection from employees of dominant Refugee Organizations. Validity and reliability of the instrument was tested. Data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics.
Findings: The study found out that Socio-Cultural Factors had a positive and significant effect on Service Delivery.
Implications/Value: The study seeks to guide policy makers in refugee organization to develop a more explicit and proactive organizations that should support employee welfare since a perception of Social cultural factors, will help to boost employee morale and improve overall service delivery outcomes. These findings will also be helpful for organizations working in international Human resource management ecosystem in shaping their human resource acquisition and retention policies