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    Strategic Management Practices and Strategic Performance of Residential Construction in Nairobi City County, Kenya
    (Kenyatta University, 2025-11) Kanini, Elizabeth Mumbi
    Despite ongoing efforts, Building projects for public housing in Nairobi City County, Kenya frequently fail to meet strategic objectives. This study investigates how strategic management practices affect project performance. Using Decision Theory, Resource-BasedView Theory, and Stakeholder Theory, the study investigates how public entities make strategic decisions in planning, resource allocation, and contract selection. It investigates how projects can successfully leverage their unique resources and capabilities while taking stakeholder needs into account. The overall goal intends to assess how strategic management techniques affect public residential construction performance. The research will assess the impact of strategic planning treats that are informed by decision-theory principles on project success, resource scheduling as per the resource-based view is helpful for project outcome, stakeholder-oriented strategic funding leads to project results, effective communications through the project life cycle attribute to performance, and control and assessment practices are related to project performance and accountability to stakeholders. The study shall use a descriptive research design with a stratified random sampling technique and will include 145 participants from different public residential construction projects. The scope of the study will include those involved in project implementation such as strategic managers, supervisors, engineers, and contractors. Data collection will be done through questionnaires, and a pilot study will be conducted for validity and reliability. The study shall use a descriptive research design with stratified random sampling technique involving 145 respondents drawn from different public residential construction projects. These will include strategic managers, supervisors, engineers, and contractors. Data will be collected by questionnaire, a pilot study will be carried out for validity and reliability. Following with data cleaning and coding, quantitative data analysis will be conducted using SPSS software. Information will be outlined via summary statistics (frequency, proportion, average, and dispersion). A multivariable regression framework will evaluate the link between strategic administration methods (predictor variables) and project success (outcome variable). The findings will be displayed in tabular and graphical formats. This research seeks to identify the key strategic administration methods fostering enhanced success in state-financed residential building projects within Nairobi City County. The conclusions are anticipated to shape policy and implementation for improved targeting and greater efficacy of public housing endeavors.