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Constraints to Ugandan SME’s Participation in AGOA
(2007-12)Many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda have not utilized the opportunities presented by AGOA. The objective of this study was to examine the constraints that hinder these firms from utilizing these opportunities. ... -
Revealed comparative advantage and competitiveness of Uganda’s exports with the rest of the world
(2008-04)This paper examined the comparative advantage and competitiveness of Uganda’s exports with the rest world and how this has changed over the period between 2000 and 2005 with a trade-based index of the Revealed Comparative ... -
Decentralization and Conflict in Uganda: Governance Adrift.
(2010)This study examines the challenges that threaten one of Africa’s most ambitious experiments in political, administrative and fiscal decentralization. Based on extensive interviews with local government leaders throughout ... -
Conflict management style in Uganda: a gender perspective
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2010)Purpose – The paper aims to investigate whether differences exist in the conflict management styles exhibited by male and female managers at different organizational levels in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach – Using ... -
Student evaluation of e-service quality criteria in Uganda: the case of automatic teller machines
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2010-03)Purpose – This study aims to identify the most important e-service quality evaluation dimensions in an emerging market context, focusing specifically on automatic teller machines (ATMs). Design/methodology/approach – The ... -
Construction of an instrument to measure social valuation in an emerging market context
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011)Purpose – This study aims to construct a parsimonious instrument to measure social valuation in a collective setting using Uganda as an example. Design/methodology/approach – A triangulation technique was used in this ... -
Examining the ADR-tistry of land mediators in northern Uganda
(2011)Land wrangles are astonishingly common in Uganda today. Recent studies show that disputes over customary land—which accounts for 80 percent of the country and nearly all land in Northern Uganda—are on the rise, especially ... -
Impact of Multiparty Politics on Local Government in Uganda
(Indiana University Press, 2011)Following years of civil strife, Uganda emerged as a “movement only” state under the National Resistance Movement led by Yoweri Museveni. One of the major innovations of this new government was to implement a strategy of ... -
The operations and effectiveness of public and private provision of solid waste collection services in Kampala.
(2012-04)This paper compares the operations and discusses the effectiveness of public and private sector provision of solid waste collection in Kampala, Uganda. Household data suggest that the private sector is more effective than ... -
Carbon Trade Financing Strategies and Opportunities for Competitiveness of Private Sector SMEs in Uganda
(2012-11)Availability of strategies and opportunities can drive SMEs competitive investment potential. In Uganda, several SMEs are emerging and their activities are having huge environmental impact hence contributing to global ... -
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Utilization in Private Universities in Uganda: Exploring Strategies to Improve. A Case of Uganda Christian University.
(2012-11)The study was an extension of a similar study by [1] conducted among local government staff in Uganda and was ex-tended among staff at Uganda Christian University. A total of 108 respondents out of the accessible 130 ... -
Green Information Technology Audit and Digitalization in Small Medium Enterprise (SME): Factors That Influence Intentions to Use Hotel Websites
(International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development, 2014-12)According to Chung and law (2003); Jeong et al (2003); Jeong and Lambert (2001) and Kim et al. (2003), information satisfaction is the most important requirement of online customers’ purchases decision making. This need ... -
Action and Action-Regulation in Entrepreneurship: Evaluating a Student Training for Promoting Entrepreneurship
(Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2015)Action plays a central role in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. Based on action regulation theory, we developed an action-based entrepreneurship training. We investigated the question of how the training ... -
HR Practices and OCB: Mediating Role of Employee Engagement in Soft Drink Firms in Uganda
(International Journal of Business and Social Science, 2015-09)The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of employee engagement in the relationship between HR practices and OCB in soft drink firms in Uganda. Quantitative cross-sectional survey design (N =210) ... -
Exploring the Implications of Low-Cost Leadership and Differentiation Strategies in the East African Community Market: A Perspective of Local Firms.
(2016)Over the past few decades, East African countries have made tremendous economic, social and political progress and are seeking to consolidate this growth with the formation of the East African Community. The Global ... -
Human resource management practices, employee engagement and organizational citizenship behaviours in selected firms in Uganda
(Academic Journals Publication, 2016-01)The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between human resource (HR) practices, employee engagement and organizational citizenship behaviours (OCB) in selected firms in Uganda. Adopting a pragmatic ... -
Drivers of recentralization in Uganda and effect on service delivery.
(Uganda Management Institute, 2016-11)Decentralization defined as the transfer of authority from central to local governments to perform certain duties, is seen as one of the public sector reform strategies to increase service delivery. Uganda is one of the ... -
The 14 cost of commercial motorcycle accidents in Uganda
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-04-21)Understanding the cost of the road traffic accidents (RTAs) has been of interest to many scholars and policy makers for a long time. In Uganda like many developing countries in Africa, injuries due to motorcycle accidents ... -
Understanding ICT adoption amongst SMEs in Uganda: Towards a participatory design model to enhance technology diffusion
(African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 2021-01-19)Policy statements by the United Nations, the African Union and most African countries boldly pronounce on the anticipated benefits of the internetworked world and associated ICT to society in general and to the world of ...