Mutekanga, Zadock2025-06-182025-06-182024-07Mutekanga, Z. (2024). Analysing the factors affecting the performance of local construction companies in Ugandahttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12504/2473xvi, 129 p.Even though the local construction business is rapidly growing, poor performance has hurt the industry's reputation, therefore the study analyzed the factors affecting the performance of local construction companies, specifically looking at challenges faced, characteristics of local construction companies and establishing ways of improving their performance. Data was gathered using a cross-sectional study design that combined qualitative and quantitative methods with semi-structured questionnaires and interview guides. The study's target sample was 132 heads of departments and directors, however only 119 of them responded (a response rate of 90.2% for the questionnaire and 85.7% for the interviews). The respondents were selected by purposive and stratified random sampling. The data was presented and analyzed using percentages, frequencies, tables, and charts. The relative importance index (RII) was used to rate the difficulties experienced by local construction enterprises, their characteristics, and the steps taken to increase their productivity and competitiveness. The findings showed that the primary difficulties faced by local construction enterprises are insufficient funding and restricted capability, inadequate skilled man power, high interest rates, political and donor directives and limited advanced technology. Some characteristics of local construction companies are; being too many and small in size, labour intensive techniques and that has led to low quality output of the projects, abandoned projects, time and cost overruns. The measures to improve the performance of local construction companies majorly are continuous benchmarking, aligning national and international standards, merging and pooling resources together as well as further training in advanced technology. The study therefore, recommended that local construction companies need to pool resources together in order to have sufficient working capital, foster the development of workforce skills through instruction in cutting-edge and sophisticated technology.enConstruction industryConstruction companiesBusiness performanceOrganizational effectivenessUgandaThesis