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在全球范围内,职能战略仍然是竞争力的基石,并被视为一种游戏计划管理,用于将组织定位在其选择的市场舞台上,以提高绩效。经过多年的战略框架和政府干预的政策修补,肯尼亚的糖厂仍然表现不佳,生产力低下,最终导致竞争力低下,行业内负债累累。尽管制糖业采用了功能性战略,但制糖业的竞争力和发展势头仍在持续减弱。正是在这方面,这项研究旨在评估职能战略对肯尼亚西部制糖业竞争力的影响。研究重点是金融战略和生产战略对肯尼亚西部制糖业竞争力的影响。为了有效地实现这一目标,该研究采用了基于肯尼亚西部制糖业样本的横断面研究设计。目标人群为来自肯尼亚西部地区或前西部省份的糖厂的98名高级员工,包括Mumias, Nzoia, West Kenya, Busia和Butali糖厂,采用人口普查调查,使用问卷收集数据。数据分析采用推理统计和描述性统计,使用SPSS版本25。从研究结果来看,职能策略与竞争力之间存在显著的相关关系。这些变量共同解释了制糖业竞争力54.6% (R2= 0.546)的变异,F变化显著,ρ< 0.05。综上所述,功能战略对制糖业竞争力有显著影响。糖业管理层应制定并实施职能战略,有效提升糖业竞争力。研究结果对糖业各利益相关方的可持续发展和实施功能战略以提高竞争力的知识体系具有重要意义。
Effect of Functional Strategies on Competitiveness of Sugar Industry in Western Kenya
Globally, the functional strategies remain a cornerstone for competitiveness and is viewed as a game plan management for positioning the organization in its chosen market arena for heightened performance. After years of policy mending through strategic framework and government interventions the sugar factories in Kenya are still under‐ performing with low productivity culminating to low competitiveness and massive indebtedness within the industry. Despite the adoption of functional strategies by the sugar industry there has been a continued weakening of the competitiveness and momentum of the industry. It is in this regard that study was designed to assess the effect of functional strategies on competitiveness of sugar industries in western Kenya. The study focused on the effect of financial strategy and production strategy on the competitiveness of sugar industry in Western Kenya. In a bid to effectively achieve this, the study adopted a cross‐sectional study design based on samples drawn from across the sugar industry in western Kenya. The target population was 98 senior employees from sugar factories in western Kenya region or the former western province which include Mumias, Nzoia, West Kenya, Busia and Butali sugar factories which were studied by use of census inquiry using questionnaire for data collection. Data was analyzed by use of both inferential and descriptive statistics using SPSS version 25. From the study findings correlations among the functional strategies and competitiveness were significant. The variables jointly explained 54.6% (R2= 0.546) variation in competitiveness of sugar industry with a significant F change at ρ<.05. In conclusion functional strategies significantly influences the competitiveness of sugar industry. The management of sugar industry should formulate and implement functional strategies to effectively enhance their competitiveness. The findings are of significance to various stakeholders in sugar industry for the sustainable development and body of knowledge on embracing functional strategies for competitiveness.