scholarly journals The Relative Importance of Intermediaries in eGovernment Adoption: A Study of Saudi Arabia

2011 ◽  
pp. 62-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faris Al-Sobhi ◽  
Vishanth Weerakkody ◽  
Ramzi El-Haddadeh
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Relative Importance

scholarly journals (The Role of Transport and Tourism Economics in Achieving the Economic Development of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the Period (2007-2017: دور اقتصاديات النقل والسياحة في تحقيق التنمية الاقتصادية للمملكة العربية السعودية للمدة (2007- 2017)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ban Ali Hussein Al Mahanadi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Retail Sector ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Tourism Activity

The transport sector in its various forms, has an important weight in tourist activity, it is a direct producer that deserves direct planning. It is coordinated with the objectives of the comprehensive tourism plan. Also, it is an important factor in the tourism industry where depend on it to transport tourists from outside their places of residence to the tourist destination. An analysis of the reality of transport and tourism activity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia shows the relative importance of the transport and communications sector, the relative importance of the retail sector, restaurants and hotels, the highest level of passenger services, In addition, there is the presence of religious tourism as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia benefits from the influx of millions of Muslim pilgrims from all over the world to perform Hajj rituals annually and Umrah every day. And to see the archaeological sites and the holiest Bekaa in the Holy Haram area where in 2017 religious tourism attracted more than 8 million Muslim visitors, around 3 million came to perform Hajj. According to the National Transition Program, the Ministry of Hajj is committed to achieving the goal of providing the greatest possible number of Muslims to perform Hajj and Umrah. The end of this ministry is to increase the number of pilgrims from outside Saudi Arabia to 15 million by 2020 compared to 2017 (6.8 million) And according to Vision 2030, this number will double to 30 million by 2030, This is due to major growth in the fields of living accommodations, wellness maintenance, advanced shipping, retail and infrastructure. Equally part of its vision for growing the tourism sector and diversifying the sources of income, it intends to implement the first two projects, the Red Sea project and the second project of the city of Neum.

NCD Stakeholders in Saudi Arabia: Mapping Their Relative Importance, Power, Interest, and Opposition

2021 ◽  
pp. 213-231
Author(s):  
Rehab Alaswab ◽  
Severin Rakic ◽  
Ada Alqunaibet ◽  
Riyadh Qainan
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Relative Importance

scholarly journals WR A descriptive analysis of entrepreneurial female career success determinants on Saudi Arabia along entrepreneurial process

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
Wided Ragmoun
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Female Entrepreneurship ◽  
Entrepreneurial Process ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Matrix

In this research we aim to identify factors which can contribute to the development of female entrepreneurship. We enumerate these factors in order to stimulate this phenomenon due to its importance for economic development and social development. After identifying these determinants, we list each according to its relative importance and create a matrix, which shows their interdependence at each level of the development of the entrepreneurial process. A quantitative approach was adopted to identify and define these determinants. Our research focused on female entrepreneurial careers in Saudi Arabia. An entrepreneurial career is evaluated as successful if it establishes an entrepreneurial project, because our objective is to motivate women to adopt not only an entrepreneurial intention, but an actual entrepreneurial career. The questionnaire used here was administered to 103 women who had already started an entrepreneurial career. The results show that individual factors are important, but environment factors are more important, especially political factors. The most important contribution of this study is the matrix it defines, in which every determinant can be used differently based on the different steps in the entrepreneurial process. This can provide policy makers with a tool according to which they can detect the key factors of success.

scholarly journals Challenges and Barriers of Building Information Modeling Adoption in the Saudi Arabian Construction Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-110
Author(s):  
Mohammed A. Al-Hammadi ◽  
Wei Tian
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Current State ◽  
Building Information

Background: The Building Information Modeling (BIM) revolution can provide a solution for problems in the Saudi Arabian construction industry and improve its outcomes. Though this technology is increasingly and rapidly adopted in advanced countries, developing countries such as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) are still in the early stages of BIM adoption. Objective: This study investigates the current state of BIM technology adoption by exploring and analyzing the critical challenges and barriers to BIM technology utilization in the construction sectors. Methods: The quantitative approach is adopted via a survey questionnaire distributed to participants in the field of construction projects in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. A total of 228 questionnaires are collected and analyzed using the statistical packaging for social science software. Results: Findings show that several significant barriers negatively affect the utilization of BIM. The major barriers to BIM adoption are related to the lack of demand, lack of experts, and poor awareness of BIM benefits, which have relative importance indexes of (RII = 89.910), (RII = 88.475), and (RII = 87.130), respectively. Meanwhile, unspecified data responsibilities, difficulty of learning BIM, lack of data sharing, and sufficient current technology constitute the lowest-ranking barriers with their relative importance indexes of (RII = 71.704), (RII = 70.807), (RII = 66.413), and (RII = 65.874), respectively. Conclusion: The findings of this study are highly significant and can become more helpful and interesting if further research can measure the methodologies to implement BIM technology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

scholarly journals Implementation of TQM and the Integration of BIM in the Construction Management Sector in Saudi Arabia Validated with Hybridized Emerging Harris Hawks Optimization (HHO)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Abazid ◽  
Hüseyin Gökçekuş ◽  
Tahir Celik
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Evaluation Metrics ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Performance Accuracy ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
The Mean

This research is aimed at evaluating two different scenarios, firstly, appraising the impacts of employing the concepts of Total Quality Management (TQM) to the construction projects in Saudi Arabia. The results of the study were obtained through utilization of a descriptive analytical approach, where 300 questionnaires were distributed to engineering firms and companies with a response rate of 200 questionnaires, hence achieving the study sample for this research. The data gathered was analyzed by applying the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) program and calculating the Relative importance index (RII) and the mean values. From the research conducted, the outcomes showed that the management’s ability to commit using TQM while applying BIM obtained a relative importance of (0.717), while the relative importance for the management’s ability to commit using TQM without the application of BIM is (0.552). The results showed that construction projects in Saudi Arabia still sustain setbacks from applying TQM concepts and suffer from the lack of administrative, scientific and technical applications. In a second scenario, a hybridized support vector regression (SVR) Harris-hawks optimization (HHO) (i.e., SVR-HHO) were used to predict the TQM. The performance accuracy of the models was checked through three different evaluation metrics namely; mean square error (MSE), correlation co-efficient (CC) and Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE). the hybridized emerging SVR-HHO outperformed the other two data driven approaches in both the training and testing stages based on the employed evaluation metrics. Overall, the obtained results showed that both the machine learning and metaheuristic approaches were capable of predicting TQM.

The Relative Importance of Shigella in the Aetiology of Childhood Gastroenteritis in Saudi Arabia

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef Al-eissa ◽  
Fahad Al-zamil ◽  
Mohammed Al-kharashi ◽  
Abdelmageed Kambal ◽  
Mohammad Chowdhury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Relative Importance

CAUSES OF SCAFFOLD ACCIDENTS IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muizz Sanni-Anibire ◽  
Abubakar Mahmoud ◽  
Majed Al-Ayouni
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Potential Benefit ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Industrial Accidents ◽  
Eastern Province ◽  
New Era ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Importance Index

The construction industry is recognized as one of the most hazardous industries globally. Moreover, the rising trend of urbanization in many developing countries has ushered in a new era of high-rise construction, thus increasing the frequency of hazards related to working at height. Accident records in Saudi Arabia reveal that the construction industry accounted for 46.4% of industrial accidents, while fall-related injury accounted for 27% of the recorded injuries. Scaffolding is the most common access equipment used to work at height. Thus, the first stage in controlling the risks of falls from a height may be to identify the causes of scaffold accidents. This study presents 36 causes of scaffold accidents classified into five relevant groups, which have been identified through a thorough review of the extant literature. Additionally, the causes have been arranged in a survey designed based on a Likert scale of importance. Subsequently, 120 copies were administered to construction professionals in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, with a 75% response rate. The Relative Importance Index (RII) was adopted to analyze the feedback. The results revealed that the top three causes of scaffold accidents include: “insufficient bracing/anchorage” (RII of 0.927), “scaffolding erected by incompetent professionals” (RII of 0.926), and “missing/faulty guardrails” (RII of 0.919). This study is of potential benefit to concerned stakeholders in the construction industry.

scholarly journals Implementation of TQM and the Integration of BIM in the Construction Management Sector in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mohammad Abazid ◽  
Hüseyin Gökçekuş ◽  
Tahir Çelik
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Safety Regulations ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
The Mean

Total Quality Management (TQM) is based on the conceptions of managing and enhancing the success of construction projects. When applied, TQM improves execution of time management of project, satisfies clients’ needs, minimizes the expenses and increases the profit of contractor, and fulfils safety regulations on the construction site. This research is aimed at evaluating the impacts of employing the concepts of TQM to the construction projects in Saudi Arabia. The results of the study were obtained through utilization of a descriptive analytical approach, where 300 questionnaires were distributed to engineering firms and companies with a response rate of 200 questionnaires, hence achieving the study sample for this research. The data gathered was analyzed by applying the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) program and calculating the relative importance index (RII) and the mean values. From the research conducted, the outcomes showed that the management’s ability to commit using TQM while applying BIM obtained a relative importance of (0.717), while the relative importance for the management’s ability to commit using TQM without the application of BIM is (0.552). The results showed that construction projects in Saudi Arabia still sustain setbacks from applying TQM concepts and suffer from the lack of administrative, scientific, and technical applications.

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