Browsing by Author "Juma, H"

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Business Networks, Regulation and Local Content in Tanzania's Oil and Gas Sector
(The Extractive Industries and Society, 2021) Juma, H
Free market advocates doubt the ability of industrial regulation to make oil and gas companies adopt local content practices. This study explores this position by assessing the effects of industrial regulations on business networks. Using data collected from a survey of 191 senior practitioners in the oil and gas industry in Tanzania and analysed using the PROCESS tool for moderating effect, the study shows that the continuity, complexity, cooperation, socialisation and formalisation of business networks all have significant positive effects on local content practice. At the same time, however, the conflict has a significant negative effect on local content practice. The findings indicate that the interactions of industrial regulation with continuity, complexity, conflict and cooperation significantly reduce local content practices, while for interdependence, informality, adaptation, socialisation and formalisation the results are not significant. As such, this study implies that host countries should not exclusively depend on industrial regulation to achieve national objectives around local content. Policy formulation should take into account the business interconnectedness of oil and gas companies because local content practices are not only affected by industrial regulation but also by companies’ respective business networks.
Organizational Factors, Business Environment, Regulatory Systems and Local Content Practices: A Case of Oil and Gas Companies in Tanzania
(Operations Research Society of Eastern Africa, 2018) Juma, H
The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of; organisational related factors and the mediating roles of; business environment and regulatory systems on the local content practices in the oil and gas companies in Tanzania. Five hypotheses were developed from the literature and data were collected using standardized questionnaires from a sample of 150 respondents selected randomly from the employees of the oil and gas companies operating in Tanzania. The collected data were analysed using the regression technique where Barron and Kenny's approach for testing mediation were applied. The findings revealed that organisational related factors have significant negative effects on the local content practices and that business environment and regulatory systems support partial mediation between organisational factors and local content practices. The findings imply that oil and gas companies’ activities and strategies have significant roles in developing local industries in Tanzania as its influence on regulatory systems and business environment in the host country is significant.