Browsing by Author "Zakari, Uba"

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    Analysis of supporting communication as a correlate of online consumer decision process in municipal local government of Kano state, Nigeria
    (International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE), 2013) Sharifai, Musa Gambo; Zakari, Uba; Mubaraka, Conrad M
    Consumer decision making process is an important aspect of business management, both managers and academicians strive to study and understand the conscious processes that underline the decision to purchase a product or service by consumers. This paper is an attempt to study the correlation between supporting communications and how they affect the on-line consumer decision making process in Kano Municipal local government of Kano State. The paper made use of both primary sources of data through the use of researcher designed questionnaires and secondary sources in form of books, journals and articles from the internet. Findings show that such technological advancements are timely, but effort be made to entice users into adoption and use of them; hence recommending further awareness and consideration of Porter’s five forces
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    E-Procurement and Performance of Service Organizations in Uganda
    (International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE), 2013) Zakari, Uba; Sharifai, Musa Gambo; Mubaraka, Conrad M; Agaba, Leticia
    Aiming at establishing the relationship between E-procurement on the performance of selected service organizations in Uganda; researchers used survey design on 202 employees and found that there is a significant relationship between E-procurement and performance of the organizations. This proposition comes as a result of penetration of IT in all aspects of life to the effect that today everything tends to rotate around use of technology. Also to note is that competition compels one to devise means to beat others and technology is the way to go. The researchers thus recommend: i) Government to support service organizations in regards to regulating cyber related vices; ii) Other organizations, other than service organization, should invest wisely in IT to reap its potential profitability; and iii) The whole procurement process should involve as many people as possible as a potential means to human resource planning in an effort to overcome future embarrassments of retrench and labor turn over