Information sharing in agri-food supply chains: insights from the Kenya dairy supply chain
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The purpose of this paper is to explore information sharing (IS) in triadic supply chain relationships through social capital lenses in the Kenyan dairy supply chain context, a setting challenged by the need to increase transparency and improve supply chain performance.
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Unlocking Sustainable Savings Through Digital Financial Services: A Cooperative Lens from Kenya
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The rise of digital financial services (DFS) offers significant potential to enhance sustainable saving behaviors, particularly within financial cooperatives, which are instrumental in advancing financial inclusion. This study explores the impact of DFS on sustainable saving decisions among cooperative members in Kenya. Employing a cross-sectional survey of 334 members and analyzing the data using ordered probit regression, the study examines how DFS influences sustainable saving behavior, specifically in terms of deposits and share investments.
The moderating effect of stakeholders' influence on the relationship between succession management and human resource outcomes in private universities, Kenya
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The growing number of private universities in Kenya continues to increase opportunities for higher education, in tandem with elevating competition, as each institution strives to attract quality employees for competitive services. Thus, retention of experienced academic administrators is increasingly becoming a key challenge in many universities, with implications on leadership stability and performance. Some universities are responding to this challenge through Succession Management (SM) and stakeholder engagement programmes, hoping to improve Human Resource (HR) outcomes.
Watering Down Environmental Regulation in China
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AbstractThis article estimates the effect of environmental regulation on firm productivity using a spatial regression discontinuity design implicit in China's water quality monitoring system. Because water quality readings are important for political evaluations and the monitoring stations only capture emissions from their upstream regions, local government officials are incentivized to enforce tighter environmental standards on firms immediately upstream of a monitoring station, rather than those immediately downstream.
Informal regulation by nongovernmental organizations enhances corporate compliance: Evidence from a nationwide randomized controlled trial in China
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AbstractAs a key component of informal regulation, nongovernmental organization (NGO) monitoring reduces the cost of government oversight and increases the visibility of corporate performance to stakeholders, thereby promoting corporate compliance. We conduct a nationwide randomized controlled trial (RCT) to investigate the causal effect of NGO monitoring on corporate compliance as measured by the environmental information disclosure (EID) of China's highly polluting listed companies.