Joseph M. Ntayi

Makerere University Business School | MUBS · Department of Management Sciences

The study sought to examine the relationship between the components of procurement practices which are purchasing risk taking, purchasing knowledge and skills and strategic purchasing and supply chain performance of SMEs in Kampala District in Uganda. The motivation for the study was the fact that SMEs suffer poor supply chain performance and there...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of the mediation effect of innovation in the relationship between knowledge management and organisational resilience. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a cross‐sectional design to collect data used to carry out mediation analysis. Findings Innovation had an effect on organisat...

Olfaction plays an important role in human social communication, including multiple domains in which people often rely on their sense of smell in the social context. The importance of the sense of smell and its role can however vary inter-individually and culturally. Despite the growing body of literature on differences in olfactory performance or...

Energy poverty measurement has taken various approaches with the most preferred being Multidimensional in nature. This paper augments the multidimensional energy poverty measurement to estimate a national multidimensional energy poverty index for Uganda. It applies the M-Gamma method on data from the 2018 National Electrification Survey (NES) which...

The theorization of social sustainability practices (SSPs) has remained underdeveloped compared to its environmental and economic counterparts, and studies on firm-specific factors that enable SSPs are even more scanty. This study provides a theoretical explanation to SSPs of hotels. In so doing, the study facilitates the growth of social sustainab...

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between love of money, pressure to perform and unethical marketing behavior in the cosmetic industry in Uganda. The methodology was cross-sectional and correlational. A questionnaire was administered to collect data on a sample of 169 marketers selected randomly from five cosmetic companies i...

Purpose This study investigates the effect of asset specificity, inter-firm ecosystem and firm adaptability on supply chain integration. The study also investigates the mediation effect of firm adaptability on the relationship between asset specificity and supply chain integration and inter-firm ecosystem and supply chain integration. Design/metho...

Research Problem: In the face of global efforts to combat poverty and enhance the well-being of vulnerable populations, aiming for inclusive growth, the 2024 UNDP trend report casts a shadow with its findings that the world remains off-course for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG1) "No Poverty". Specifically, in Uganda, despite the int...

Objective This study aimed to examine the mediating role of meal planning in the relationship between role modeling and snack choice. Methods and Measures The study was correlational and quantitative in nature. The study selected a sample of 403 university students. We collected data through interviews using a questionnaire. We analyzed the data us...

The purpose of the study was to investigate whether identification with a women's group had helped women achieve economic empowerment. The study was underpinned by the social identity and economic empowerment theories and adopted a mixed methods approach. The quantitative data was collected using 360 questionnaires that were given to women while qu...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to present a theoretical framework that utilizes a success story to elucidate sustainable innovations in Ugandan financial institutions. It provides valuable insights from the standpoint of a developing African nation. Design/methodology/approach The study utilized a qualitative methodology, specifically in-dep...

Nearly 41% of the global populace depends on unclean fuels for cooking. As a result, about 4 million premature deaths connected to household air pollution are registered annually. Worryingly, over 2.1 billion people are estimated to continue using unclean fuels by 2030 if no strong policy actions are taken to alter the status quo. Climate parameter...

In this research, we set out to reexamine the intractable problem of unsustainability in foreign-funded Community-Based Projects (CBPs) in low-income countries. The study explored the sustainability of foreign-funded CBPS in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo Province by analysing their funding experiences, practices, strategies, challenges, and developing a CBP...

Purpose The study examined the influence of humanitarian organizations’ culture and financial service providers’ technology readiness on the usage of digital cash-based assistance by humanitarian organizations, the influence of Humanitarian Organization Culture on Financial providers’ technology readiness and the mediating role of financial service...

Introduction Over 2.3 billion people worldwide use unclean fuels in the form of firewood, charcoal and coal for cooking. As a result, over 3.2 million people are reported to die annually due to household air pollution caused by smoke. The purpose of this study was to estimate the effect of gender role differentiation on household energy transition...

Introduction: The dominance of biomass for cooking has implications for the country. For instance, biomass conversion using traditional technologies (three stone) in poorly ventilated kitchens produce smoke that influences the reproductive health outcomes for expectant mother. Beyond health outcomes, uncontrollable harvesting of biomass for cooking...

Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between institutional logics and specifications quality, and how this relationship is mediated by the legitimacy of the procurement process and stewardship behaviour. Design/methodology/approach This study draws on insights from institutional logics theory, and legitimacy and stewardship behaviou...

This paper examined the relationship between humanitarian organizational network, coordination and disaster response in Uganda. Contextually, most research in the area of disaster management rotates around the entire disaster management process/stages. There is inadequate research that tends to study a single stage in the disaster management cycle...

Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between tool adoption and information literacy within smallholder farmers (SHFs). Design/methodology/approach A structured questionnaire was used to gather data for this quantitative study from 225 SHFs. Structural equation modelling was done to test the hypotheses. Findings The findings establi...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the interplay among self-organization, networks and sustainable innovations within microfinance institutions (MFIs) and to examine the extent to which organizational resilience plays a significant role in shaping these dynamics as a mediator. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopted a cross-sec...

Healthy food consumption involves regular fruit intake. Inadequate fruit consumption is associated with disease burdens such as cancer, hypertension, stroke, and diabetes. As such, an individual may choose to avoid health repercussions by adjusting his/her lifestyle. Individuals with long-term healthy lifestyle habits are likely high fruit consumer...

Purpose This study investigates how asset specificity, relational governance and firm adaptability relate with supply chain integration (SCI), considering selected food processing firms (FPFs) in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach This study applies a quantitative research methodology. This research draws on a sample of 103 FPFs that have been se...

Purpose - The researcher investigates the extent to which knowledge sharing moderates the relationship between knowledge creation and business process re-engineering (BPR) outcomes of financial services offered by financial institutions in Uganda. Design/Methodology - The study adopted cross-sectional survey design to collect data at one point in t...

Background Certain diseases are associated with individual eating habits. Eating habits of the youth are at times copied from other people and replicated throughout a lifetime. Despite this, the influence of role modeling on food consumption among the youth seems to have received scant attention in the extant literature. Previous studies appear to...

Many societies consider meat to be their favorite food choice. However, meat consumption is also associated with possible health complications. To minimize health complications, one may alter their meat consumption. A university student’s perceived severity of diseases may influence their meat consumption. However, few studies seem to have addresse...

Purpose An unreliable supply of grid electricity has a strong negative impact on industrial and commercial profitability as well as on household activities and government services that rely on electricity supply. This unreliable grid electricity could be a result of technical and security factors affecting the grid network. Therefore, this study ai...

The reliability of the electricity supply is important since any interruption to the supply has direct and indirect consequences for its users. A reliable electricity supply requires a reliable electrical grid system to transmit and distribute the power from the generating plants to the consumers. This study reviewed the literature to find out how...

Background Despite decades of healthcare provider training and investment, rates of utilization and capacity to appropriately plot the partograph and use it to make critical decisions remain sub-optimal in Sub-Saharan Africa. Objective To synthesize the evidence of the existing gaps, challenges and opportunities of partograph utilization in labor...

Purpose Healthy food consumption involves regular fruit intake. Inadequate fruit consumption is associated with disease burdens such as cancer, hypertension, stroke, and diabetes. As such, an individual may choose to avoid health repercussions by adjusting his/her lifestyle. Individuals with long-term healthy lifestyle habits are likely high fruit...

Consumption of solid fuels (such as biomass, dung, and coal) causes household air pollution, which reportedly is responsible for over 3.5 million premature deaths worldwide. Therefore, over the last couple of years, national governments, and organization as well as international organizations are promoting energy transition from these solid fuels t...

In the humanitarian assistance sector, the primary objective of inter-organizational networks is to ensure that there are efficient and effective humanitarian response efforts that meet the needs of the affected population to the maximum extent possible (Drabek, 1987; Zhao et al., 2009). However, theoretical perspectives on humanitarian organizatio...

Since its outbreak, Covid-19 has led to upsurge in economic inactivity, leaving many households and firms without access to and use of basic services including financial services. Specifically, with the lockdown and curfew, most traditional bank branches remained closed, leaving households without access to quality, affordable, convenient, and safe...

This study examines the effect of climatic shock and women empowerment on multidimensional energy poverty using panel data from Uganda National Panel Surveys from 2013/14–2019/20, complemented by the World Bank African Rainfall Climatology version 2 (ARC2) database. We find that climatic shocks increase energy poverty. However, there is great poten...

Introduction The role of gender and gender role differentiation has been of long standing interest and has remained a concern regarding the access and use of energy fuels for cooking in households. Although there seems to be a thin line between gender. However, studies on gender role differentiation in household fuel transition have framed gender a...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate the efect of organisational future orientation and interaction quality on inter-organisational communication, and the mediating role of inter-organisational group mechanism on the relationship between organisational future orientation, interaction quality and inter-organisational communication. A...

Background The final third of the year 2019 was marked by the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This virus paralyzed almost all economic sectors, including governments, forcing educational institutions to close. School closures resulted in significant learning losses and increased inequality in the education sector across the...

Purpose This research aims to examine the role of green intellectual capital (GIC) dimensions in promoting sustainable healthcare as reflected by sustainable performance. The mediating effect of green absorptive capacity (GAC) and moderating role of environmental turbulence were also explored. Design/methodology/approach Structural equation modeli...

Globally, renewable energy technologies, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) contribute significantly to sustainable development. However, adoption of solar PV is limited in many developing countries. Governments have rolled out policy strategies like financial inclusion to stimulate deployment of modern energy technologies. Notwithstanding, little is...

Purpose This paper aims to quantify, for the first time, the performance expectations gap in community roadworks projects by proposing a performance expectations gap index (PEGI) that can answer a vital question of how wide/how narrow the gap is from a stakeholder perspective. Previous scholars have offered qualitative descriptions of the expectati...

PURPOSE: This paper investigates the effect of public domestic borrowing (PDB) on deposit growth (DG), private sector credit (PC), and interest rates (IR) among commercial banks in Uganda. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: Three equations are formulated to allow the application of the Generalized Methods Moment (GMM) approach to estimate the equations...

This paper attempts to build a theory for "cost efficiency" in organizations such as private primary schools using evidence from a developing world context .

This study uses social capital theory to explain the power of social capital in mediating relationship between citizens’ behaviour and compliance in local governments. The research builds on past studies that used citizenship, agency and stewardship theories to examine the mediating role of social capital in the association between citizens’ behavi...

Studies on performance expectations gaps is sparse and incomplete, and yet it is becoming an increasing concern in public procurement. This study borrowed the concept of expectations gap from auditing, accounting and focused on how do the different stakeholders with different needs, interests and expectations, perceive and interpret the procurement...

The primary purpose of this study is to establish the moderating role of generational differences in the relationship between mobile money adoption and use and financial inclusion in developing countries. Three key findings emerged: first, there is a moderating role of generational differences on mobile money adoption and use; second, both mobile m...

Purpose – Organisations involved in relief delivery tend to have cross-boundary mandates, which cause ambiguity of roles during delivery of relief services to the targeted victims. Having no clear role, specialisation affects service timeliness and increases resource duplication among the relief organisations. The objective of this study is to unde...

With over 70% of households without access to clean energy, Uganda presents a huge potential for increased adoption of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies. However, their uptake is relatively low. This study employs a nationally representative data set from Uganda's National Electrification Survey of 2018 to analyze factors influencing households'...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) establish formal and informal relations to access required resources for business competitiveness in Uganda. The major challenge of acquiring the required resources is attributed to inadequate management of informational differences among employees. This paper examines the relationship between informational diffe...

Purpose This study aims to examine the influence of market logics on tendering capabilities and small and medium enterprise (SME) involvement in public procurement, the influence of SME governance mechanisms on tendering capabilities and SME involvement in public procurement and the influence of tendering capabilities on SME involvement in public p...

Purpose Mobile money is a service in which the mobile phone is used to access financial services. Thus, the mobile money platform should be user-friendly with hedonic features that are attractive and pleasurable to the users. The main purpose of this paper is to establish the mediating effect of hedonism in the relationship between mobile money ado...

This paper used a quantitative cross-sectional survey design to collect data from 228 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda to test the mediating role ecologies of innovation in the relationship between symbiotic resonance, nexus of generative influence and opportunity exploitation, but also, the moderating role of firm size in the relation...

The study explains the mediating role of accountability in the relationship between deontological ethical orientations and public interest using the stewardship theory. Data were collected from a sample of 361 UPE schools in Central and Western Uganda. Data were analyzed using SPSS and SEM. Existing studies focused on the direct relationship betwee...

The purpose of this study was to establish the contribution of deliberative mindset and implemental mindset to SME (small and medium enterprises) internationalization. This study employed cross-sectional and correlational research designs. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey of exporting SME owners and managers. Data was analyzed wit...

There are varying opinions of how the procurement performance expectations gap (PPEG) is interpreted from a stakeholder's perspective. This study borrowed this concept from auditing and marketing fields in order to replicate it in procurement management. The study was guided by the research question: How do the different stakeholders with different...