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    Co- creating human- centred climate solutionsthrough challenge- based learning: Insightsfrom Kenya–UK learning and design lab
    (British Educational Research Association., 2025) Mwangi, Renson Muchiri.; Muthuri, Judy N.; Kutuk,Gulsah.; Muriithi,Betsy.; Kamere, Grace.; Faßbender, Karina.
    Abstract The global climate crisis calls for innovative educational approaches that empower individuals to critically engage with its complexities and inequalities. Climate change education (CCE) is a key strategy to foster the knowledge, agency, and action needed for such engagement, particularly within higher education. Yet, traditional content- driven approaches often fail to address the dynamic and context-specific nature of climate change impacts. This article explores the potential of human- centered challenge-based learning (HCCBL) to promote equitable and inclusive CCE through transdisciplinary co- creation and Global North–South dialogue. We draw on findings from the UK- Kenya University Partnerships: Learning and Design Lab, a British Council project that involved undergraduate and postgraduate students from universities in Kenya and England in the United Kingdom. Sixty (60) university students collaborated in intercultural teams across three labs to co-create solutions for real-world climate resilience challenges identified by three (3) industry partners in Kenya. The findings highlight HCCBL's value in bridging theoretical knowledge and real-world application as well as enhancing students' problem-solving and intercultural competencies. However, challenges such as cultural dynamics, time constraints, and asymmetric travel opportunities underscore the need for adaptive and equitable facilitation. This study positions HCCBL as a transformative pedagogy in CCE that supports co- creation, knowledge exchange, and sustainability leadership among university students in high-vulnerability contexts. It also discusses implications for educators, policymakers, and industry stakeholders who are committed to inclusive, justice-oriented climate action through education
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    Capital adequacy, risk absorption, and operational efficiency of Islamic in sub-Saharan Africa
    (University of Turin, 2026) Njogo, Michael Njoroge.; Korir, Fiona Jepkosgei.; Dallu,Abdallah Mambo.
    Abstract This study examines how capital adequacy shapes the operational efficiency of Islamic banks in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with particular emphasis on its role as an internal risk-absorption mechanism rather than a purely prudential stability buffer. Despite its central role in Islamic banking regulation, the efficiency implications of capital adequacy, particularly in developing and institutionally constrained Islamic finance markets, remain largely unexplored. Based on a balanced panel of fully-fledged Islamic banks in SSA from2010to 2024, the paper employs a two-step empirical approach. Bias-corrected operational efficiency scores are estimated in the first stage using the Simar–Wilson two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) framework. In the second stage, we explore the non-linear effects of capital adequacy on efficiency using panel regression techniques, controlling for bank-specific and institutional factors. To address endogeneity, persistence, and reverse causality, a dynamic panel model is estimated using System GMM as a robustness check. The findings indicate non-linear relationship between capital adequacy and operational efficiency. Moderate capital buffers are associated with improved efficiency through higher loss absorption capacity and stabilisation of operating costs, while excessive capitalisation is accompanied by scale inefficiencies and less effective intermediation. These results indicate that Islamic banking exhibits an efficiency trade-off in capital adequacy, as prudential strength beyond an optimal level may limit productivity in resource allocation. The study makes an important contribution to Islamic banking literature by reframing capital adequacy as a channel of structural efficiency and by providing rare dynamic evidence from SSA. This raises policy implications and suggests the need for commensurate capital calibration that balances prudential resilience against operational efficiency for emerging Sharīʿah-compliant banking systems.
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    Scale efficiency and technical efficiency in Islamic banks: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
    (SSBFNET, 2026) Njogo, Michael Njoroge.; Korir, Fiona Jepkosgei.; Dallu,Abdallah Mambo.
    Abstract This study investigates whether inefficiencies in Islamic banking in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are primarily driven by managerial limitations or by suboptimal scale of operations. While existing studies largely report aggregate efficiency scores, limited attention has been given to decomposing efficiency into its underlying components in emerging Islamic banking systems, particularly within the SSA context. The study employs a balanced panel of 35 fully fledged Islamic banks operating in SSA over the period 2010–2024. Operational efficiency is estimated using a bias-corrected Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model under an input-oriented Variable Returns to Scale (VRS) framework. To enhance statistical reliability, the Simar–Wilson bootstrap procedure with 2,000 replications is applied. Efficiency scores are decomposed into pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency to distinguish between managerial inefficiencies and structural scale constraints. The results indicate that overall efficiency levels remain low, with inefficiencies largely driven by scale factors rather than managerial performance. A significant proportion of banks operate under increasing returns to scale, suggesting suboptimal size linked to structural constraints such as limited market depth, fragmented regulatory environments, and underdeveloped financial infrastructure. Although pure technical efficiency shows moderate improvement over time, managerial gains are insufficient to offset these systemic limitations. The findings highlight the need for regulatory harmonization, market integration, and strategic expansion or consolidation to enable Islamic banks to achieve optimal scale and improve operational efficiency in SSA. This study provides one of the first comprehensive efficiency decomposition analyses of Islamic banks in SSA using bias-corrected DEA, offering new insights into the relative importance of structural versus managerial sources of inefficiency in emerging financial systems.
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    Catch-up or divergence? Operational efficiency convergence dynamics of Islamic banks in SSA
    (SSBFNET, 2026) Njogo, Michael Njoroge.; Korir, Fiona Jepkosgei.; Dallu,Abdallah Mambo.
    Abstract This study examines whether Islamic banks in SSA exhibit convergence in operational efficiency or whether performance disparities persist over time. Specifically, it evaluates whether less efficient banks catch up with more efficient peers within the region’s emerging Islamic banking sector. The study adopts a two-stage empirical framework using panel data from 35 Islamic banks across SSA over the period 2010–2024. In the first stage, operational efficiency scores are estimated using a bias-corrected Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model following the Simar and Wilson two-stage approach. An input-oriented specification under Variable Returns to Scale (VRS) is employed to reflect cost minimization behaviour and heterogeneity in bank size. Bias correction is implemented using a bootstrap procedure to obtain consistent efficiency estimates. In the second stage, convergence dynamics are analysed using sigma (σ) and beta (β) convergence models, alongside conditional convergence regressions incorporating bank size, age, and market concentration. The results reveal significant β-convergence, with the baseline model yielding a coefficient of −0.267 (p < 0.01), while the conditional model confirms robust convergence (β = −0.2836, p < 0.01), indicating that banks with lower initial efficiency improve at a faster rate than more efficient institutions, consistent with catch-up dynamics. However, σ-convergence results show that efficiency dispersion declined between 2010 and 2019 but increased after 2020, indicating that convergence was time-varying rather than uniform. This suggests that while convergence forces exist, structural differences and external shocks continue to sustain efficiency gaps across banks. The findings highlight the need for stronger regulatory harmonization, improved financial infrastructure, and targeted capacity-building initiatives to accelerate efficiency convergence across Islamic banks in SSA.
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    Resilience among Kenyan Manufacturing Firms
    (Academy of Strategic Management Journal, 2022) Wamalwa, Lucy S; Ochola, Stella
    Academic and practitioners have recently discovered resilience as a core topic of interest. It is widely viewed as a potential solution to organizations' challenges posed by the current Covid-19 pandemic and other disasters. While the concept of resilience is increasingly becoming popular, empirical research on resilience organizations is quite rare. In this study, we examined the relationship between organization resources, organization innovative climate culture, restructuring, and transformational leadership style on organization resilience Among Kenyan manufacturing firms. We measured resilience as the firm's ability to return to normal after adversity and as the firm's ability to bounce back better than before. Our sample population is 122 manufacturing firms in Kenya. Our findings show that organizational resources have a significant effect on Resilient both on the ability to return to normalcy and the ability to bounce back better. However, an organization's innovative environment significantly affects firms' ability to return to normalcy in operations but has an insignificance effect on the ability to bounce back better than before. Transformation leadership style and organization restructuring had a significant impact on the ability to bounce back better but an insignificance effect on maintaining normalcy in operations.
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    Approximations of ruin probabilities under financial constraints
    (Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2022) Simwa, Richard O; Odiwuor, Calvine O; Onyango, Fredrick
    In this paper, we investigate the approximate ruin probabilities un-der financial constraints (interest rate, inflation, and taxation). We formulate a risk process whose premium inflow is influenced by the economic effects of inflation and interest rate. Thereafter we invokethe Albrecher-Hipp loss-carried-forward tax scheme from which an ex-act formula for the ruin probability for exponentially distributed claimsis derived. Finally, an explicit asymptotic formula when the claims have sub-exponential distribution is also derived using the Pollaczek-Khintchine formula.
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    Linking Transformational Leadership to Knowledge Management in the Universities in Kenya; the Role of Teamwork Processes
    (Global Scientific Journals, 2022) Waweru-Gathii, Rose
    This study analyses the effect of teamwork processes of cohesion and communication on the relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge management. The key objective of the study was to examine the role that various teamwork processes play in influencing a leadership and knowledge management relationship in the Universities in Kenya. The study utilized the work of Yammarino et al. (2003), Muchiri et al. (2012) and Atwater and Bass (1994) on transformational leadership, performance and teamwork processes. The study also utilized Crawford (2005) research on the relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge management as well as the work of John D. Politis (2003) and Turner et al (2012) on Knowledge management and teams. Cross sectional data was collected and analyzed within a period of one year from September 2017. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data in order to determine the patterns and meaningful characteristics that would emerge from the data. Inferential statistics were used to determine the relationships between and among the study variables. The results obtained support the view that transformational leadership has a significant positive effect on knowledge management initiatives of creation, sharing and utilization. The teamwork processes of communication and cohesion were interestingly found not to significantly mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge management.
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    Transformational Leadership, Knowledge Management and Performance of Telecommunication Firms in Kenya
    (International Journal of Business and Social Science, 2023) Waweru-Gathii, Rose; K’Obonyo, Peter
    Purpose – The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of transformational leadership on performance of telecommunication firms in Kenya. Further, the study sought to establish the mediating role of knowledge management in the relationship between transformational leadership and performance of telecommunication firms in Kenya. This study employed a questionnaire approach. The Sample for the study was drawn from a population of 404 Telecommunication firms registered by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) as at June 2015. Regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses in a sample of 202 firms. The findings suggest that Transformational leadership has a direct and significant effect on firm performance. Transformational Leadership influences firm Performance directly and also indirectly through knowledge management.
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    Effect Of Intangible Resources On Firm’s Competitive Advantage In The Telecommunication Industry In Kenya
    (2023) Ndirangu, Amos M; Owino, Edward
    The study sought to determine the effect of intangible resources on a firm’s competitive advantage in the telecommunications industry in Kenya. The specific objectives were to evaluate the influence of intellectual property, goodwill, intellectual capital as well as corporate culture on the competitive advantage of telecommunication firms in Kenya. The study utilized an explanatory research design. The study focused on four telecommunication companies in Kenya, which included Safaricom, Airtel, Finserve, and Telkom. The target population was therefore 153 staff working in enterprise business, finance, human resource, and corporate affairs departments in telecommunication companies in Kenya. Slovin's Formula was employed to determine the sample size. This study used stratified random sampling in the selection of the sample size from the target population. The study used primary data, which was collected by the use of semi-structured questionnaires. A pilot test was conducted to test the validity and reliability of the research instrument. The semi-structured questionnaire produced both quantitative and qualitative data. The qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis, and the findings were presented in a narrative form. With the help of SPSS version 24, quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics comprised of frequency distribution, mean, percentages, and standard deviation. Inferential statistics including correlation as well as multivariate regression analysis then followed. Tables and figures (bar charts as well as pie charts) were employed to present the results. The study found that intellectual property has a positive and significant effect on the competitive advantage of Kenya's telecommunications industry. Moreover, the study found that goodwill has a positive and significant effect on the competitive advantage of Kenya's telecommunications industry. Further, the study found that intellectual capital has a positive and significant effect on the competitive advantage of Kenya's telecommunications industry. The study also found that corporate culture has a positive and significant effect on the competitive advantage of Kenya's telecommunications industry. This study, therefore, recommends that the management of Kenya's telecommunications industry should motivate the employees by rewarding them, acknowledging their achievements, sharing positive feedback, offering flexible scheduling, and providing a conducive working environment to help strengthen the competitive advantage of the organizations. In addition, the management should strive towards recruiting as well as grooming the best team as well as enhance the employees’ skills by conducting regular training, coaching, mentorship, and workshops to get a competitive advantage in the organization. The management should also invest in their employees through promotion, involving employees in writing a mission statement, conducting training programs, motivating the employees through rewards, and creating a feedback culture. In addition, the management should include the invention of products and services in their patents to stop others from copying, manufacturing, selling, or importing their invention without their permission.
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    Political Leadership and Regional Integration: A Case of the East African Community Common Market
    (Journal of Management and Training for Industries, 2023) Ntara, Caroline
    The East African Community (EAC) is a regional integration initiative of East African countries, including Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, South Sudan, Burundi and Rwanda. The EAC is struggling to achieve a fully functional common market. This research investigated political leadership as an impediment to the region’s trade advancement using interpretative phenomenology. The research interviewed selected individuals from the member state governments, regional trade bodies and private sector practitioners across the region. The findings posit that poor political leadership is a major challenge affecting common market implementation. The research proposes relooking the EAC decision-making model reconciliation, a sanction mechanism, political will and commitment, re-evaluating the principle of variable geometry, financial solidarity, member states contributions, independence of EAC institutions, anticorruption and EAC visioning as major solutions towards common market implementation. The study recommends further research on how the solutions can be implemented for the benefit of the region.