Strathmore Business School (SBS) was privileged to host the third biennial Conference for the Afr... more Strathmore Business School (SBS) was privileged to host the third biennial Conference for the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), which took place in January 2016. The idea of hosting the conference in Kenya started at the University of Botswana, Gaborone where the second biannual AFAM Conference had taken place two years earlier. A number of Kenyan scholars who attended this conference, especially those studying abroad, were of the opinion that if Botswana managed to successfully host the AFAM Conference, why not Kenya? After all, Kenya and its capital Nairobi have a history of hosting academic, professional and international conferences, big and small. When the idea of hosting the AFAMConference was introduced to the leadership of Strathmore Business School, with Dr. George Njenga as Dean, it quickly became music to their ears. The timing was right. It was at a time when SBS was defining its strategic research outlook, especially around collaborative research. SBS was also looking forward to launching its PhD program with its collaborative underpinning exemplified in the fact that it is offered in partnership with other business schools like IESE Business School in Barcelona Spain, Nanyang Business School in Singapore, Saude School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Canada and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. SBS in its Mission Plan also subscribes to being a top global business school with local relevance. Recognizing that the majority of scholars attending the AFAM conferences are of African origin, the opportunity to host the AFAM Conference and Doctoral Consortium could not have come at a better time for SBS’s strategic outlook and the launching of its PhD program. The planned launch at the conference of the Special Issue of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) on Managing in an Integrating East Africa, jointly sponsored by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH) made it much more attractive for SBS, especially since the Dean and at least one of his colleagues had participated as researchers and authors. The East African Community (EAC) is important for Kenya, as a member state, and for Nairobi as the single biggest commercial center for the regional bloc. For AFAM, a lot was also at stake. As a relatively new scholarly management organization, AFAMwants to build strong footprints in Africa and to keep high standards. Therefore, the selection of the host was very critical. But when it came to how
This article is an extension of the keynote address given by Safaricom’s chief executive officer ... more This article is an extension of the keynote address given by Safaricom’s chief executive officer (CEO) at the 2016 AFAM Conference. It provides details about Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile telecommunications corporation, Safaricom’s CEO, Mr. Collymore, and the iconic M-PESA mobile innovation, its sister services and the ecosystem in which it operates. We saw an opportunity to contribute to local management knowledge regarding an expatriate CEO doing well and doing good in Kenya, leading a national strategic corporate champion and driving transformational technological change in an increasingly important digital economy. Discussions of Safaricom’s corporate performance include the extent to which the corporation is going well … making money … and doing good … environmental, social, governance contributions … and fighting against corruption. Discussions of M-PESA include its origins, development, performance, its wider impact on Kenya’s economy and society and the socio-economic ecosystem that contributes to its remarkable success. We hope that these discussions will stimulate research and practice by way of theory development and testing, management and organization development, education and training.
Regional integration in East Africa dates back more than a hundred years. This article provides a... more Regional integration in East Africa dates back more than a hundred years. This article provides a general synopsis of the East African Community (EAC) and traces the evolution of regional integration in Eastern Africa from colonial times to the present. The EAC, one of the most integrating Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Africa, and the focus of this special issue, is currently made up of five independent countries: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. The article describes the EAC's governance and institutional arrangements and outlines key integration achievements to date, notably the establishment of the Common Market, the promise to establish the monetary union by 2017, and the ultimate goal of achieving a political federation. Noting that as elsewhere in the world regional integration is hard and often protracted among sovereign states, the article discusses the EAC's challenges, opportunities, and drivers for deeper integration. It also provides a brief discussion of the region's natural resources, land, demography, and infrastructure. This provides the background for undertaking a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the EAC economies along the measures of governance, development capacity, economy, investment climate, and foreign direct investment inflows. Overall, the data paint a nuanced picture of impressive progress in the midst of daunting challenges. Looking forward, the article concludes that the prospects for deeper integration are promising, providing the EAC continues to build on its successes, confronts current and future challenges, and takes a holistic long-term approach to the effective management of deeper regional integration. We end by calling upon the international community to play a more strategic role, working with the EAC and member states for the effective and sustaining implementation of regional and continental integration.
Una vision panoramica de la literatura sobre la ciudadania corporativa (CC) evidencia que prolife... more Una vision panoramica de la literatura sobre la ciudadania corporativa (CC) evidencia que proliferan numerosas aproximaciones, perspectivas y visiones que son complejas, controvertidas y poco claras. Con todo, un analisis mas en profundidad revela que, pese a estas complejidades, es posible sintetizar la bibliografia en torno a uno de los roles mas importantes de la literatura de la ciencia del management, eso es, su contribucion a favor de unas mejores practicas de gestion. Con este proposito, esta tesis doctoral, en su primer estudio ?un paper de revision?, pretende aportar una perspectiva a la sintesis de la literatura en materia de CC integrandola en torno a los mecanismos de desarrollo en materia de CC. El estudio entiende el ?desarrollo en materia de CC? como su progresivo crecimiento en terminos de significacion, conocimiento corporativo, actitudes, estructuras y practicas que representan distintos grados de comprension y de sofisticacion con relacion a la CC. En el segundo e...
2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2018
The adoption of stochastic models has been one of the central topics in various architectures. On... more The adoption of stochastic models has been one of the central topics in various architectures. One important step to adopt it is model validation, which aims at obtaining reasonable models to represent actual behavior of services components, it has been essential to validate models against actual measurements. System-wide model simulation results can be compared with recordings from the measurement. In this paper, we accomplish the model validation to Stochastic Petri Net (SPN) models created to evaluate VoD system hosted on a private cloud system, considering MP4, MPG, Ogg and FLV formats. We proposed the performance model to represent packet transfers, and to compute performance metrics, such as throughput, packet loss, and service delivery reliability. The SPN model enables a compact representation of a large number of packets generated by video streaming. We validate the models through experimental data, using a VoD streaming service in a cloud infrastructure testbed. We demonstrate that the proposed models are accurate and can be utilized for planning the quality of service (QoS) of corporate video streaming infrastructures. A case study is presented to compare the behavior of the system. Results indicate that the model validation way adopted can be a good solution for models validation. A case study is conducted to compare the behavior of the system under distinct network scenarios. The results indicate that video streaming QoS under 3G (EVDO) networks is significantly worse than other wireless technologies, such as WiFi, 3.5G (HSPA+), and 4G (LTE).
Abstract Over a long period of time, the evolution and development of indigenous management theor... more Abstract Over a long period of time, the evolution and development of indigenous management theories and practices in Africa have been seriously distracted and hindered by European colonialism and Western education. The colonial administration introduced Western management theories and practices, considered as the drivers and the remedy for the continent’s socio-politico-economic development. Western scholarship and literature generally undervalued and condemned the management proficiency and practices of early African civilisations, as evidenced, for instance, in the building of the great Egyptian pyramids. Foreign management systems generally botched the development of indigenous African business practices as they failed to achieve the expected goals. We argue that the development of indigenous African management practices and philosophy ought to be rooted in the African culture, value system and beliefs to provide the practical way for the efficient and effective running of organisations in Africa. Nevertheless, there are still indigenous family business management practices that can be co-opted into today’s business practices. The Ubuntu management system and the ‘new management techniques’, which emphasise humanness, communalism and African patriotism, provide the veritable starting point for the development of indigenous African management philosophy. The chapter starts with a brief description of family business in Africa. Highlighting the relevant indigenous management practices, to mention, strategic process, governance, human resource and succession planning then follow in this order. The next section is on the origins of the indigenous management practices and then we conclude with a section on unique differences from Western models and provide advice to educators and practitioners. As an approach, the cases that have been used are for illustration purposes and do not claim to be representative of African indigenous business practices since Africa is too diverse.
1 This study was set to ascertain the causes of father absence and how it affects the academic pe... more 1 This study was set to ascertain the causes of father absence and how it affects the academic performance of the boy child in KCSE in Suneka Division, Kisii County. The objectives of this study were: to find out the grades scored in KCSE by boys whose fathers had died; to find out the grades scored in KCSE by boys whose fathers were away for studies; to determine the scores of boys whose parents were divorced; to ascertain the academic performance of boys whose fathers were away due to employment. The social learning theory by Albert Bandura guided this study. The study employed descriptive survey approach. The target population from which the sample was drawn consisted of 3000 students enrolled in secondary schools. The division had 33 public secondary schools: 3 girls’ schools, 2 boys’ schools and 28 co-educational schools. Purposive sampling was used to sample two boys’ schools and 28 coeducational schools. Form 3 and 4 students were sampled to participate because they had been ...
Education is the primary means of promoting national cohesion, international cooperation as well ... more Education is the primary means of promoting national cohesion, international cooperation as well as socio-economic development. Through school curriculum, education enables a country to achieve its needs and aspirations. Despite the comprehensive school curriculum, the country is faced with ethnic divisions, religious intolerance and violence and this raises concern on relevance of the school curriculum content in promoting national cohesion. The objective of this study was to investigate the relevance of secondary school curriculum content in promoting national cohesion. The study was based on the ideals and principles of a school curriculum as advocated by reconstructionism philosophy. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. A sample size of four hundred and nine (409) respondents comprising of three hundred and sixty (360) student leaders, Forty eight (48) teachers and Sub-County Quality Assurance and Standards Officer (QASO) was used for the study. Purposiv...
vi Chapter One Introduction 1 Chapter Two Literature Review 5 Chapter Three Research Methodology ... more vi Chapter One Introduction 1 Chapter Two Literature Review 5 Chapter Three Research Methodology 27 Chapter Four Results and Discussion 33 Chapter Five Conclusions and Recommendations 83
International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility, 2020
Social Responsibility, referred to in this study as Corporate Citizenship (CC) has experienced co... more Social Responsibility, referred to in this study as Corporate Citizenship (CC) has experienced continued growth in significance among academics and corporate leaders. The absence of a multi-level approach to what would explain the advancement in CC has inhibited a realization of singularly conclusive study. In fact, nearly every scholar in the field of CC has come up with their perspective to explain the mechanisms for development in corporate citizenship, none of them being singularly conclusive. This study takes multi-level review of the current body of knowledge on mechanisms for development in corporate citizenship. This is achieved through a comprehensive synthesis of the literature around the mechanisms for development in CC from a multi-level perspective. The findings show that the majority of scholars still populate disciplinary, specialized micro- (Managerial values), meso- (Business Case) or macro- (Institutional Mechanisms) as a driver for the development of CC. we also f...
Strathmore Business School (SBS) was privileged to host the third biennial Conference for the Afr... more Strathmore Business School (SBS) was privileged to host the third biennial Conference for the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), which took place in January 2016. The idea of hosting the conference in Kenya started at the University of Botswana, Gaborone where the second biannual AFAM Conference had taken place two years earlier. A number of Kenyan scholars who attended this conference, especially those studying abroad, were of the opinion that if Botswana managed to successfully host the AFAM Conference, why not Kenya? After all, Kenya and its capital Nairobi have a history of hosting academic, professional and international conferences, big and small. When the idea of hosting the AFAMConference was introduced to the leadership of Strathmore Business School, with Dr. George Njenga as Dean, it quickly became music to their ears. The timing was right. It was at a time when SBS was defining its strategic research outlook, especially around collaborative research. SBS was also looking forward to launching its PhD program with its collaborative underpinning exemplified in the fact that it is offered in partnership with other business schools like IESE Business School in Barcelona Spain, Nanyang Business School in Singapore, Saude School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Canada and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. SBS in its Mission Plan also subscribes to being a top global business school with local relevance. Recognizing that the majority of scholars attending the AFAM conferences are of African origin, the opportunity to host the AFAM Conference and Doctoral Consortium could not have come at a better time for SBS’s strategic outlook and the launching of its PhD program. The planned launch at the conference of the Special Issue of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) on Managing in an Integrating East Africa, jointly sponsored by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH) made it much more attractive for SBS, especially since the Dean and at least one of his colleagues had participated as researchers and authors. The East African Community (EAC) is important for Kenya, as a member state, and for Nairobi as the single biggest commercial center for the regional bloc. For AFAM, a lot was also at stake. As a relatively new scholarly management organization, AFAMwants to build strong footprints in Africa and to keep high standards. Therefore, the selection of the host was very critical. But when it came to how
This article is an extension of the keynote address given by Safaricom’s chief executive officer ... more This article is an extension of the keynote address given by Safaricom’s chief executive officer (CEO) at the 2016 AFAM Conference. It provides details about Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile telecommunications corporation, Safaricom’s CEO, Mr. Collymore, and the iconic M-PESA mobile innovation, its sister services and the ecosystem in which it operates. We saw an opportunity to contribute to local management knowledge regarding an expatriate CEO doing well and doing good in Kenya, leading a national strategic corporate champion and driving transformational technological change in an increasingly important digital economy. Discussions of Safaricom’s corporate performance include the extent to which the corporation is going well … making money … and doing good … environmental, social, governance contributions … and fighting against corruption. Discussions of M-PESA include its origins, development, performance, its wider impact on Kenya’s economy and society and the socio-economic ecosystem that contributes to its remarkable success. We hope that these discussions will stimulate research and practice by way of theory development and testing, management and organization development, education and training.
Regional integration in East Africa dates back more than a hundred years. This article provides a... more Regional integration in East Africa dates back more than a hundred years. This article provides a general synopsis of the East African Community (EAC) and traces the evolution of regional integration in Eastern Africa from colonial times to the present. The EAC, one of the most integrating Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Africa, and the focus of this special issue, is currently made up of five independent countries: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. The article describes the EAC's governance and institutional arrangements and outlines key integration achievements to date, notably the establishment of the Common Market, the promise to establish the monetary union by 2017, and the ultimate goal of achieving a political federation. Noting that as elsewhere in the world regional integration is hard and often protracted among sovereign states, the article discusses the EAC's challenges, opportunities, and drivers for deeper integration. It also provides a brief discussion of the region's natural resources, land, demography, and infrastructure. This provides the background for undertaking a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the EAC economies along the measures of governance, development capacity, economy, investment climate, and foreign direct investment inflows. Overall, the data paint a nuanced picture of impressive progress in the midst of daunting challenges. Looking forward, the article concludes that the prospects for deeper integration are promising, providing the EAC continues to build on its successes, confronts current and future challenges, and takes a holistic long-term approach to the effective management of deeper regional integration. We end by calling upon the international community to play a more strategic role, working with the EAC and member states for the effective and sustaining implementation of regional and continental integration.
Una vision panoramica de la literatura sobre la ciudadania corporativa (CC) evidencia que prolife... more Una vision panoramica de la literatura sobre la ciudadania corporativa (CC) evidencia que proliferan numerosas aproximaciones, perspectivas y visiones que son complejas, controvertidas y poco claras. Con todo, un analisis mas en profundidad revela que, pese a estas complejidades, es posible sintetizar la bibliografia en torno a uno de los roles mas importantes de la literatura de la ciencia del management, eso es, su contribucion a favor de unas mejores practicas de gestion. Con este proposito, esta tesis doctoral, en su primer estudio ?un paper de revision?, pretende aportar una perspectiva a la sintesis de la literatura en materia de CC integrandola en torno a los mecanismos de desarrollo en materia de CC. El estudio entiende el ?desarrollo en materia de CC? como su progresivo crecimiento en terminos de significacion, conocimiento corporativo, actitudes, estructuras y practicas que representan distintos grados de comprension y de sofisticacion con relacion a la CC. En el segundo e...
2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2018
The adoption of stochastic models has been one of the central topics in various architectures. On... more The adoption of stochastic models has been one of the central topics in various architectures. One important step to adopt it is model validation, which aims at obtaining reasonable models to represent actual behavior of services components, it has been essential to validate models against actual measurements. System-wide model simulation results can be compared with recordings from the measurement. In this paper, we accomplish the model validation to Stochastic Petri Net (SPN) models created to evaluate VoD system hosted on a private cloud system, considering MP4, MPG, Ogg and FLV formats. We proposed the performance model to represent packet transfers, and to compute performance metrics, such as throughput, packet loss, and service delivery reliability. The SPN model enables a compact representation of a large number of packets generated by video streaming. We validate the models through experimental data, using a VoD streaming service in a cloud infrastructure testbed. We demonstrate that the proposed models are accurate and can be utilized for planning the quality of service (QoS) of corporate video streaming infrastructures. A case study is presented to compare the behavior of the system. Results indicate that the model validation way adopted can be a good solution for models validation. A case study is conducted to compare the behavior of the system under distinct network scenarios. The results indicate that video streaming QoS under 3G (EVDO) networks is significantly worse than other wireless technologies, such as WiFi, 3.5G (HSPA+), and 4G (LTE).
Abstract Over a long period of time, the evolution and development of indigenous management theor... more Abstract Over a long period of time, the evolution and development of indigenous management theories and practices in Africa have been seriously distracted and hindered by European colonialism and Western education. The colonial administration introduced Western management theories and practices, considered as the drivers and the remedy for the continent’s socio-politico-economic development. Western scholarship and literature generally undervalued and condemned the management proficiency and practices of early African civilisations, as evidenced, for instance, in the building of the great Egyptian pyramids. Foreign management systems generally botched the development of indigenous African business practices as they failed to achieve the expected goals. We argue that the development of indigenous African management practices and philosophy ought to be rooted in the African culture, value system and beliefs to provide the practical way for the efficient and effective running of organisations in Africa. Nevertheless, there are still indigenous family business management practices that can be co-opted into today’s business practices. The Ubuntu management system and the ‘new management techniques’, which emphasise humanness, communalism and African patriotism, provide the veritable starting point for the development of indigenous African management philosophy. The chapter starts with a brief description of family business in Africa. Highlighting the relevant indigenous management practices, to mention, strategic process, governance, human resource and succession planning then follow in this order. The next section is on the origins of the indigenous management practices and then we conclude with a section on unique differences from Western models and provide advice to educators and practitioners. As an approach, the cases that have been used are for illustration purposes and do not claim to be representative of African indigenous business practices since Africa is too diverse.
1 This study was set to ascertain the causes of father absence and how it affects the academic pe... more 1 This study was set to ascertain the causes of father absence and how it affects the academic performance of the boy child in KCSE in Suneka Division, Kisii County. The objectives of this study were: to find out the grades scored in KCSE by boys whose fathers had died; to find out the grades scored in KCSE by boys whose fathers were away for studies; to determine the scores of boys whose parents were divorced; to ascertain the academic performance of boys whose fathers were away due to employment. The social learning theory by Albert Bandura guided this study. The study employed descriptive survey approach. The target population from which the sample was drawn consisted of 3000 students enrolled in secondary schools. The division had 33 public secondary schools: 3 girls’ schools, 2 boys’ schools and 28 co-educational schools. Purposive sampling was used to sample two boys’ schools and 28 coeducational schools. Form 3 and 4 students were sampled to participate because they had been ...
Education is the primary means of promoting national cohesion, international cooperation as well ... more Education is the primary means of promoting national cohesion, international cooperation as well as socio-economic development. Through school curriculum, education enables a country to achieve its needs and aspirations. Despite the comprehensive school curriculum, the country is faced with ethnic divisions, religious intolerance and violence and this raises concern on relevance of the school curriculum content in promoting national cohesion. The objective of this study was to investigate the relevance of secondary school curriculum content in promoting national cohesion. The study was based on the ideals and principles of a school curriculum as advocated by reconstructionism philosophy. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. A sample size of four hundred and nine (409) respondents comprising of three hundred and sixty (360) student leaders, Forty eight (48) teachers and Sub-County Quality Assurance and Standards Officer (QASO) was used for the study. Purposiv...
vi Chapter One Introduction 1 Chapter Two Literature Review 5 Chapter Three Research Methodology ... more vi Chapter One Introduction 1 Chapter Two Literature Review 5 Chapter Three Research Methodology 27 Chapter Four Results and Discussion 33 Chapter Five Conclusions and Recommendations 83
International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility, 2020
Social Responsibility, referred to in this study as Corporate Citizenship (CC) has experienced co... more Social Responsibility, referred to in this study as Corporate Citizenship (CC) has experienced continued growth in significance among academics and corporate leaders. The absence of a multi-level approach to what would explain the advancement in CC has inhibited a realization of singularly conclusive study. In fact, nearly every scholar in the field of CC has come up with their perspective to explain the mechanisms for development in corporate citizenship, none of them being singularly conclusive. This study takes multi-level review of the current body of knowledge on mechanisms for development in corporate citizenship. This is achieved through a comprehensive synthesis of the literature around the mechanisms for development in CC from a multi-level perspective. The findings show that the majority of scholars still populate disciplinary, specialized micro- (Managerial values), meso- (Business Case) or macro- (Institutional Mechanisms) as a driver for the development of CC. we also f...
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