The impact of entrepreneurial activity on the economies of both industrialised and developingcountries has been well established and theorised in the normative literature. However, it is besideseminent that the development of entrepreneurial activities and behaviour, through facilitation...

This study aims to provide a human resource planning example to inform government bodies in Saudi Arabia to reallocate community resources towards better dental health. This was achieved by: conducting an inventory on government human and structural oral health care resources in Jeddah and...

Recently, informal venture capital investors have been recognised as animportant source of financing small & medium sized enterprises(SMEs).Unfortunately, very little research (if any) has been devoted to understandinghow these investors fund particular investments in developing countries.This...

The purpose of this research was to compare thecharacteristics of both Western and Saudi senior managementin Saudi Arabian business organisations.The author investigated management characteristics,and the differences between Saudi and Western managers intheir styles and management practices. In...

The overwhelming dependence of Saudi Arabia on oil exports as the onlysource of national income has exposed the Kingdom's economy to seriousexogenous shocks. In order to reduce the impact of this externaldisruption, the Government, through successive five-year developmentplans, established the...

The purpose of this study is to construct a macroeconometric model for theSaudi Arabian economy in order to assess the effects of external shocks through suchvariables as the price of (oil) exports, real (oil) exports, and the price of imports. Thismodel follows the methodology of the aggregate...

Multivariate statistical analyses were employed in data reduction of six fruit qualitative traits, along with economic value and a final score of fruit quality, scored on fruits of 203 date palm varieties grown in 19 ecogeographical regions in six countries of the Arabian Peninsula. Fruit color...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el impacto de la llamada «revolución del petróleo no convencional» sobre los precios del petróleo y el crecimiento económico. Para ello se utiliza un modelo de equilibrio general del mercado internacional de crudo en el que Arabia Saudita es el...

Doctor of Philosophy

The purpose of this study is to identify key institutional determinants of firm emergence and growth. We do this using various types of data from Sweden. A characterization of a number of institutions and policy measures shows that they are likely to have contributed to an environment that...