ROLE OF SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT PRACTICES ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN THE KENYAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT SECTOR: A CASE OF KENYA PORTS AUTHORITY

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to examine the role sustainable procurement practices play on corporate governance in the Kenyan public transport sector organizations. The study used a case study research design. The study used Kenya Ports Authority based in Mombasa County as a case study. The target population for this study comprised of staff at Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) headquarters in Mombasa County and precisely from Procurement, Finance, ICT, Operations, Human Resources and the Transport Departments and analyzed using SPSS. The study adopted a stratified random sampling technique when selecting the sample, with a sample size of 84 employees from afore mentioned departments at KPA. Data was collected mainly through questionnaires. A descriptive statistics were used in this study supported by Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21 to compute respondents’ answers in percentages form. The study equally applied inferential statistics by using multiple regression as well as correlation analysis to determine the relationship that exists between the research variables. ANOVA test was applied in the study to establish the statistical significance of the type of relationship that exists between the variables. The study revealed that sustainable procurement practices statistically significantly predicted corporate governance in Kenyan public sector organizations’, F (4,61) = 490.899, p < .05, R2.= .97. The study recommends that the legislature should come up with laws to administrate sustainable procurement and they need to be enforced to improve compliance.