Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the significance of some barriers in Saudi organizations from the perspectives of marketing executives. Design/methodology/approach – A range of contemporary literature is presented to help define the term “organizational creativity,” and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of interest in franchising among small medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to identify attitudes towards the mode of operation's success held by practitioners. Design/methodology/approach – A...

In developing economies state‐controlled primary organizations have an implicit responsibility to assist secondary organ‐izations in their development. Using an exploratory study, examines the interaction of these two groups in Saudi Arabia and seeks to identify significant indicators which...

Contends that managers from Saudi Arabia and other Middle East nations, as well as from other areas of the world, are becoming more conscious of the critical role that managerial values can play in today’s ever widening and increasingly competitive marketplace. Alignment of personal and...

Using Porter’s need satisfaction questionnaire, measures and compares the degree of importance that managers and non‐managers from Saudi Arabia and some western countries attach to five categories of need: security, social, self‐esteem, autonomy and self‐actualization. The results...

The present longitudinal study examines the effect of 105 different human resource practices, grouped into four domains (staffing, human resource development, hygiene factors, supportive climate) on trends in the increase or decrease of the number of men and women working at different...

The incidence of mergers and acquisitions has proliferated throughout the world including all sectors of our society, both municipal and industrial, private and public. However, the majority (60‐80 percent) of them do not reach their intended objectives owing to the fact that the merging...

Purpose – The workforce is aging in all industrialized nations and the retention of older workers will become one of the dominant issues in the coming decades. Training is an important component of retention and the availability of training is critical for retaining older workers....

Purpose – This article aims to outline the theoretical perspectives of international training and development and examine how theoretical frameworks have been implemented by practitioners. Design/methodology/approach – Literature review. Findings – There appears to be a considerable gap...

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the issue of whether Herzberg's two‐factor motivation theory still resonates nearly 50 years after it was first posited. The objective is to assess whether or not Herzberg's contentious seminal studies on motivation at work still hold true today....