Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted The Role of AI Tools in Reshaping Barriers to Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Literature Review(Saudi Digital Library, 2025) Alhubaish, Abdullah; Morlacchi, PieraThis dissertation investigates the role of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in reshaping barriers to entrepreneurship. While earlier research often presents AI as a simple enabler, this study adopts a more nuanced perspective, examining how AI removes, reconfigures, and introduces entrepreneurial constraints. A systematic literature review (SLR) of 79 sources published between 2015 and 2025—including 63 academic articles and 16 grey literature reports—was conducted using a structured coding framework. The review focused on how AI reshapes barriers, which applications drive these changes, its influence on business model innovation and product development, the risks of bias in large language models (LLMs), and the implications of divergent regulatory frameworks, as well as persisting gaps and future research directions. The analysis identifies a threefold dynamic. AI lowers traditional barriers such as high capital requirements, specialist expertise, and labor intensity; reconfigures entrepreneurial challenges by demanding new competencies in digital judgement, orchestration, and AI literacy; and introduces novel barriers, including algorithmic bias, regulatory fragmentation, and psychological pressures. Generative models and predictive analytics emerge as the most transformative applications, enabling ideation, prototyping, storytelling, and evidence-based decision-making. At a strategic level, AI accelerates business model innovation and iterative, data-driven product development, while raising concerns around ethics, intellectual property, and dependence on external infrastructures. This study contributes to knowledge by integrating academic and grey literature, reframing AI as a re-shaper rather than merely a remover of barriers and highlighting capability asymmetry and regulatory divergence as critical issues for research and practice. For entrepreneurs, the findings underscore the importance of AI literacy and responsible adoption as conditions for sustainable advantage. For policymakers, they emphasize the urgency of harmonized regulation and inclusive digital capacity-building. Overall, AI emerges as both an equalizer and a potential new gatekeeper in entrepreneurial ecosystems.26 0Item Restricted EFL Learners’ Perceptions of AI Tools in Enhancing their Target Language Use: A Quantitative Study of Saudi International Students in the UK(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-12-05) Alsubaei, Mouneerah; Thompson, PaulThe integration of AI tools into education has gained considerable attention in this era of technological advancement. In light of the increasing interest in the use of AI in language learning, it is essential to understand how EFL learners perceive the potential of these tools to improve their usage of the target language. Despite the growing prevalence of AI tools, there is limited research concerning Saudi international students' perceptions of these tools in the context of language learning, specifically in the UK. This study attempts to address the consequential gap in the literature by investigating Saudi international students' perspectives on AI tools for improving EFL use, particularly in overall language performance and four skills, especially in the UK. Moreover, it attempts to identify significant differences in students' responses to the questionnaire based on gender, age, current educational courses and years of language learning experience. Data collection questionnaires were distributed to targeted respondents (N= 237) and analysed statistically by SPSS. This study revealed interesting findings. Participants generally believe AI improves overall language performance and writing skills, particularly grammar, spelling and punctuation. However, AI's effect on critical thinking, reading, listening and speaking could not be proven by the research findings, except in terms of vocabulary use. There is no significant difference between participants' responses based on gender, age, current academic courses or years of language learning experience. However, there is a significant difference based on current academic courses in relation to the number of times the research participants use AI tools to improve their English Language use. Most comments from students were positive and they expressed the effectiveness of AI in improving writing skills.196 0