Abstract: Organizations are embracing stakeholder management in their strategic operations in order to gain competitive advantage in business. Stakeholders have become an integral part in their different capacities as shareholders, customers, staff, government agents, the general public, suppliers and business partners. Involvement of stakeholders raises the chances of provision of better services and products. This study sought to establish the influence of stakeholder’s involvement in efficient public procurement process in road construction in Kenya. This is because public procurement process has an effect on the cost, time and quality of road construction in any country. Each road construction procurement process has its own peculiarity in terms of the pre-tender and post tender activities and processes, division of risks between client and contractors, and the effectiveness of monitoring and control. Specifically it looked at the influence of sources of capital, government policies and adoption of corporate governance practices policies in ensuring effective procurement practices on road construction projects in Kenya. The study adopted survey research design to enable the researcher collect and analyze data from external stakeholders who are numerous. The target population for this study was 8 constituencies in Nairobi County, where its focus population was project managers, procurement officers, committee chairpersons and committee members making a total of 158 target respondents. The study used census of 158 respondents since it’s manageable. Questionnaire was used as primary data collection instrument. The data was collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics, using SPSS version 20. The representation of the findings were in tables, charts and graphs.
Keywords: stakeholder’s involvement, government policies, corporate governance, sources of capital and procurement practices.
Title: INFLUENCE OF STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT ON EFFICIENT PROCUREMENT PRACTICES OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN KENYA
Author: Leonard Mayende, Dr. Jane Omwenga
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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