Effect of Innovation Strategies on Competitive Advantage in Public Secondary Schools in West Pokot Sub County, West Pokot County
Journal Title: International Journal of Research and Review - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 11
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of innovation strategies on competitive advantage in public secondary schools in West Pokot sub County of West Pokot County. The analysis was focused on the respondents of the target population of the study. The research was guided by the following research objectives: - to determine the effect of students’ innovation strategies on competitive advantage, to examine the effect of departmental innovation strategies on competitive advantage and to examine the effect of management related innovation strategies on competitive advantage. The study was guided by the Market-Based View (MBV); Resource Based View (RBV) Theory; Capability -Based View (CBV) Theory; The Relational View of Strategy (RVS); and the Institutional theory. A descriptive research design was adopted with a structured questionnaire that covered both qualitative and quantitative data, as a tool for data collection. The survey targeted the Ministry of Education Science and Technology personnel, in particular secondary school principals, HODs, teachers, students and boards by employing census method since the target population was less than one hundred respondents, which is the maximum acceptable number for census method to be used. Data sorting and analysis was carried out by both the regression tools and ANOVA using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23. A multiple correlation coefficient and regression analysis together with the ANOVA test was used to establish, make conclusions and recommendations on the relationship between the study variables from the findings. The findings, through the F calculated at > 5% level of significance, revealed that the regression effect was statistically significant between the independent variables and the dependent variable. They further showed that the overall model was significant with students’ innovative Strategies predicting the largest portion of the dependent variable, the other independent variables, departmental innovation strategies and the management related strategies predicting came in that order as concerns their prediction of the competitive advantage. From the findings, management related strategies were the most significant predictor of competitive advantage. The results are to be used with the already conducted researches to enrich the area of innovation and competitive advantage as well as the area of education management.
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Ekaliyo James Ekaale
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