Browsing Faculty of Business and Management Sciences by Issue Date
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Causes of Small Business Failure in Uganda: A Case Study from Bushenyi and Mbarara Towns
(African Studies Quarterly, 2006)The privatization drive and the Civil and Public Service reforms that began in the early 1990s in Uganda laid a foundation for an increased number of small business enterprises. By 2002, small scale enterprises were ... -
Problem Based Learning, curriculum development and change process at Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University, Uganda
(African Health Sciences, 2006-06-02)Introduction: The faculty of Medicine, (FOM) Makerere University Kampala was started in 1924 and has been running a traditional curriculum for 79 years. A few years back it embarked on changing its curriculum from traditional ... -
Intellectual capital and performance: testing interaction effects
(Journal of Intellectual Capital, 2010)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the interaction effect of intellectual capital elements and how they fuse to affect financial performance in microfinance institutions. The major purpose is to explore the ... -
Desired or deserving leadership? A reflection on the leadership exercised in local governments of Uganda
(International Journal of African Renaissance Studies-Multi-, Inter-and Transdisciplinarity, 2011)The article presents survey findings of the leadership styles exercised in local governments and examines whether leadership influences organisational performance in Uganda’s local governments. Based on survey findings ... -
Loan pricing, financial intermediation and Loan costs in Uganda’s deposit taking Institutions
(African Journal of Accounting, Economics, Finance and Banking Research, 2011)The paper examined individual contribution of loan pricing and financial intermediation to loan costs. Its purpose was to explore the extent to which predictor variables (loan pricing and financial intermediation) explain ... -
Community involvement and development:An inter-marriage of ISO 26000 and millennium development goals
(International Journal of Social Economics, 2013)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how ISO 26000 inter-marries with millennium development goals (MDGs) with a view to demonstrate and recommend how businesses can successfully use this intermarriage to ... -
Social intermediation and financial services access in Uganda’s microfinance industry
(African Journal of Economic and Management Studies, 2013)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which social intermediation influences access to financial services in Uganda’s microfinance industry. Design/methodology/approach: The paper adopts analysis ... -
Factors Affecting Performance of Commercial Banks in Uganda A Case for Domestic Commercial Banks
(Proceedings of 25th International Business Research Conference, 2014)The study seeks to establish the underlying factors responsible for performance of domestic commercial banks in Uganda. The factors are analyzed in the light of structure–conduct performance (SCP) and Efficiency hypothesizes ... -
Human Capital Elements and their Influence on Performance: Evidence from Uganda’s Manufacturing Firms
(Global Journals Inc. (USA), 2014)Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to establish the elements of human capital that are influential in steering the performance of medium and large manufacturing firms (MLMC). Design/methodology /approach: A valid ... -
Information Asymmetry and Stock Market Participation: Evidence from the Uganda Stock Exchange
(Operations Research Society of Eastern Africa, 2014-12-02)This study sought to examine the association between information asymmetry and perceived stock market participation by medium firms. A sectional survey and correlational analysis approach were employed based on a sample ... -
Increased Foreign Commercial Banks and Performance of Domestic Commercial Banks in Uganda
(Proceedings of 4th European Business Research Conference, 2015)This paper focuses on the effect of increased foreign commercial banks on performance of domestic commercial banks in Uganda over the period 2000-2011. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze banks’ performance trends ... -
Heightening Leadership Effectiveness in Local Governments of Uganda: ‘Challenge the Process’ for Organisational Support
(International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, 2015)Leadership effectiveness is an enviable characteristic in public as well as in private organisations. This article presents a discussion of the leadership practice known as ‘Challenge the Process’; within the context of ... -
Business process management and service delivery; a case of Uganda’s public entities
(World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 2015)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test empirically a variety of hypotheses related to business process management (BPM) and service delivery within public entities and contracting companies in Uganda. Design/me ... -
A borrowing cost model for effective performance of SMEs in Uganda
(World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development., 2015)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an effective cost borrowing model of qualitative factors that are relevant to micro and small enterprises (SMEs) better performance. Design/methodology/approach – A valid ... -
Quality of financial statements, information asymmetry, perceived risk and access to finance by Ugandan SMEs
(2016)The eminence of investigating the relationship between quality of financial statements, information asymmetry, perceived risk and access to finance by Ugandan Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) is well understood ... -
Population-based study of intra-household gender differences in water insecurity: reliability and validity of a survey instrument for use in rural Uganda
(Journal of water and health, 2016)Hundreds of millions of people worldwide lack adequate access to water. Water insecurity, which is defined as having limited or uncertain availability of safe water or the ability to acquire safe water in socially acceptable ... -
Performance of non-African foreign commercial banks in Uganda
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The Influence of Leadership Competencies on Sustainable Funding of Local Non-Governmental Organizations in Uganda
(ournal of Public Administration and Governance, 2017)Introduction: When a leader with a vision launches a Local Non-Governmental Organization (LNGO or NGO), the NGO’s motivation and decision-making often become intertwined with the leader’s personality and character to the ... -
Coordinating Management disciplines to write the Philosophical, Logical and Theoretical Paradigms in Postgraduate Research
(Humanities and Social Sciences Research, 2018)Research is one of core requirement at postgraduate level whose immediate key output is a dissertation/thesis. This condition in postgraduate training is intended to providethe learner with a skills-set and knowledge to ... -
Water insecurity and gendered risk for depression in rural Uganda: a hotspot analysis
(BMC Public Health, 2018)Background: Water insecurity is linked to depression in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), though it remains unclear how geospatial clustering of water insecurity in rural regions is associated with risk for ...
