Factors affecting the value of contracts for indigenous construction firms in Lusaka

Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 3.33 GPA, , course: MBA Finance, language: English, abstract: The objective of this research was to use fifty indigenous construction firms in grade one to three registered with NCC in Lusaka (1) to examine whether number of employees employed by indigenous construction firms affect value of a contract, (2) to find out whether financial investment affect value of a contract of indigenous construction firms and (3) to investigate whether value of capital assets affect value of a contract of indigenous construction firms in 2018.

This study was cross-sectional in design. The subjects consisted of a stratified random subpopulation of 130 indigenous registered firms with NCC, drawn from grades one to three, and sampled 50 firms. National council construction (NCC), central statistics office (CSO), and financial statements of the companies sampled provided the population and detailed information used in the study. The factors assessed for 2018.