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In Saudi Arabia's higher education, women remain an untapped resource, with many limitations in holding key positions …. Additionally, there is a general scarcity of research on the role of women in Saudi higher education. Semi-structured interviews … females' talent, and consequently, the integration of more women into the educational system …
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Despite the predominance of perspectives on women's leadership, which consistently emphasize the underrepresentation of … women in virtually every sphere of political and economic life in countries around the world, very little is known about … women's leadership, especially in higher education, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This has resulted in a gap in the …
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Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...
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The transition from an oil-based to a knowledge-based economy requires that the Saudi population dramatically increases its level of human capital. This paper argues that noncognitive skills may be a bottleneck in the formation of human capital and proposes a policy to indirectly strengthen...
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Using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), this study aimed to investigate the impact of Entrepreneurship Education Programs (EEPs) on entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions among university students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Following the quantitative approach of enquiry, a...
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The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …
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The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce … barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all … industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287854
This study examines a group of women entrepreneurs of small and micro businesses in Hail, Riyadh and Eastern regions of … Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study aims to identify the particular style of leadership displayed by these women entrepreneurs … 310 women entrepreneurs after obtaining their approval. A total of 211 filled surveys were received. The responses having …
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We explore the antecedents and consequences of women leaders' identity interference related to the perceived conflict … between their roles as both women and leaders. Drawing on identity development and organizational demography research, we … propose that leadership experience reduces women leaders' identity interference, whereas women's numerical underrepresentation …
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Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities- trustees, presidents/chancellors, and provosts/academic vice presidents - plays in influencing the rate at which academic institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We...
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