May 2023

Competitive action-response strategies of mobile network operators in sub-Saharan Africa

Mobile telecommunication firms have increasingly found Sub-Saharan Africa to be a favorable location for business and investment. We explore the competitive actions and responses of the multinational MNOs in three of the leading sub-regional markets: Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa based on the conventional content analysis of online-sourced data from the time the first major competitive move was made in each market...

Author(s): Max Dike and Judith Iddy

May 2023

Survival of Uganda’s small and medium businesses in a cox model

The government of Uganda came up with the micro, small and medium enterprise policy in 2015 in an effort to support SMEs for sustainable wealth creation and social economic transformation. However, the SMEs sector has grappled with wide ranging challenges and these challenges therefore threaten the survival of SMEs. This study thus investigated factors responsible for the survival of Uganda’s small and medium...

Author(s): Keneth Muhwezi and Niclous Kiliman