This dissertation examines the effect of oil wealth on a country's business environment and government policymaking towards firms and entrepreneurs. It begins with a game theoretic approach that derives hypotheses about business environment reforms given the interests of the gov…
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Background: Over 50% of the world lives in an urban area. The highest rate of urban population growth is in Sub-Saharan Africa, where fertility rates remain high. To slow population growth and improve health and well-being, family planning (FP) advocates argue for increasing the…
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) have been lauded as a primary modality for stimulating growth and for effecting positive social changes in developing economies such as Ghana. The problem is that FDI activity in economies such as Ghana has not developed into sustained and broad …
By focusing on the relationship between financial stability and monetary policy for the cases of Chile, Colombia, Japan, Portugal and the UK, this thesis aims to add to the existing literature on the fundamental issue of the relationship between financial stability and monetary …
The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions toward distance learning in the private sector in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, this study aims to examine and explain the impact of the type of organizations and occupation on the perceptions of training managers and trainin…
The purpose of the study was to assess the role of Colleges of Technology in relation to human resource development in Saudi Arabia, in general, and to investigate and identify factors that have an impact on the hiring Colleges of Technology graduates in the private sector, in p…
In the industrialized world today, management is characterized by extensive use of computers to manage rapid change, information overload, and complex decision-making. Literature suggests that Decision Support Systems, computer packages offering information retrieval, problem-st…
The purpose of this study was to explore human resource (HR) managers' perceptions of training practices (i.e., needs assessment, trainee preparation, training program review, accountability, management support, knowledge transfer, and performance improvement) in Saudi private s…
Quality of care improvement is a major issue in hospital management. Community demands for better services, market competition, shifts of epidemiological patterns, and the utilization of high medical technology all bring the hospital into a transitional environment. At this crit…
In many of the world's economies, private sector activity is dominated by business groups. Such groups are comprised of a diverse set of businesses, often initiated by a single family, and bound together by equity cross-ownership and common board membership. In this dissertation…
This research examined and compared the perceptions of Saudi private-sector employers and job seekers toward obstacles to Saudization (the process of replacing non-Saudi employees by Saudi nationals) in the Saudi private sector. Possible obstacles to Saudization were identified …
Modern technology has brought the benefits of rapid international flow of information, trade, capital and people, promising prosperity for the great majority. A by-product threatening this prosperity is the rapid spread of conflicts across the globe. Economic decline increases t…
The objective of this study is to measure and compare the major factors influencing consumers' use of Public medical services and of Private medical services: Private doctor and Private nurse/paramedic/midwife, using a sample of adults from 1993 Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFL…
Studying the use of communication in crisis and conflict management is a major area in the public relations and organizational communication literature, in the United States. However, There are few studies found on this topic, in the Arab world. This is the first study dealing w…
This thesis is concerned with the method and process of Saudisation policy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The thesis examined the extent to which the Saudusation policy is regarded as a myth or reality and the factors responsible for this position. The study examined barriers t…
Electronic government (e-government) diffusion and adoption is a global topic that concerns many developed and developing countries worldwide. However, global efforts to provide e-services to different stakeholders (citizens) differ from one country to another in terms of readin…
UAE nationals ('Emiratis') constitute less than 10% of the resident population of Dubai. Despite having access to free education in the public sector, where Arabic is the medium of instruction, more Emirati families in Dubai choose to enrol their children in private schools, spe…
Culture plays an integral role in shaping Human Resource Management (HRM) practices and policies within any organisation. This role is manifested through determining the norms and accepted behaviours in any given society. However, the extent of this societal cultural influence h…
The aim of this research was to explore the ICT skills of LIS students in Kuwaiti HE that are potentially defined by the job market. These skills are deemed essential for the employment of LIS graduates in different job market sectors. As a result, the ICT skills of current LIS …