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In today’s globally competitive landscape, enterprises split
their production processes into a number of business
functions which they move around the world to gain
efficiency and/or new markets. This has resulted, at the
global level, to increasing outsourcing of manufacturing,
with the overall ratio in 2004 standing at 73% against 27%
of in-house manufacturing. This article on the role
technology plays in determining competitiveness of
Electrical and Electronic Manufacturing Enterprises in Kenya
is extracted from a wider research on the Determinants of
Competitiveness of Electric and Electronic Manufacturing
enterprises in Kenya. It combines theoretical and
empirical reviews to complement the analysis of the survey
results in coming up with the critical role that technology
plays a predominantly traditional industry characterized by
the manufacture hardware, electrical machinery and
appliances, the bulk of which are not traded in the global
market. The challenges faced by the Kenyan electrical and
electronic manufacturing sector include lack of strategic
fit into the new paradigm shift of Global value Chains (GVC)
that govern the sector competitiveness.
Keywords: Competitiveness,
technology, value chains, markets, partnerships,
productivity, skill competences, fragmentation and
outsourcing |
