The large-scale event industry is an ever growing and profitable business, and it is important to the economy of the host country. Based on the proposition that the determinants of an event's success are the quality of (1) its programme, and (2) the facilities and services avail…
Taxation plays a major role in economic activity, as a prime source of revenue and as a tool of economic mangement for all governments in either developed or less developed countries.
The overwhelming dependence of Saudi Arabia on oil exports as the only source of national income has exposed the Kingdom's economy to serious exogenous shocks. In order to reduce the impact of this external disruption, the Government, through successive five-year development pla…
This study is an investigation of the variables which determine life insurance purchasing decisions in Egypt. More precisely, the interest is focused on the customers' attitudes towards purchasing life insurance, as well as on demographic/socioeconomic factors that are assumed t…
The purpose of this research was to investigate issues in the evaluation of executive training programmes in Saudi Arabian organisations. The researcher investigated the impact of training of the Executive Development Programmes (EDP) offered by the Institute of Public Administr…
This study is motivated by the desire to develop an understanding of the manufacturing strategy concept within the Saudi business environment. More specifically the objectives of the study are to detect the existing type of manufacturing strategies in Saudi plants in the last tw…
The central question of this thesis is whether or not personal sources of information and word-of-mouth communication influence the purchase of cars in a developing country such as Jordan. With this question in mind, this study was carried out on consumer durables (cars) A rando…
This thesis is concerned with communication planning for national development: specifically with the problem of utilising a developing country's communication resources to support an integrated programme of social, political and economic mobilisation. The research which it descr…
The general theme of this thesis is that economic integration in the case of developing countries ought to be conceived as a strategy for economic development, rather than as a tariff issue. Considering that developing countries are still in the process of realising their econom…
The present thesis proposes that conflict and confrontation can, under certain conditions, leadto judgementally rational systemic action in cases where the assumptions of the traditionalrational-choice approach are not satisfied.For this purpose, the concept of rationality in ec…