Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted A Mixed-Method Approach to Develop a Model to Manage the National Strategic Reserve for Critical Intermediate and Final Products in Saudi Arabia(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-12-11) Fadil, Aiman; Geraghty, John; Davis, PaulIn recent years, the idea of “strategic reserve” has become a prominent public policy concern. COVID-19, Brexit, war, and some other similar cases will leave/have left us with a lesson that has impacted the supply chain in almost all product types. Countries have now recognized that some goods cannot be sustained in a situation of uncertainty. This research covers the gap in developing the purchasing portfolio model from an organizational level to a national/country level to manage critical intermediate and final products. Through investigating the relationship between two factors: the casual factor supply risk (independent factor); and the impacted (dependent factors) political, economic, sociocultural, and technological (PEST) factors, this study has a significant contribution to the theoretical, empirical, and practical knowledge in terms of classifying critical intermediate and final products using the principle of Resource Dependency Theory and Portfolio Theory. A mixed-method research approach (exploratory sequential design) was determined to be the most suitable approach in order to fulfil the academic purposes of this exploratory research. The semi-structured interview was conducted with 23 experts in Saudi Arabia that have been selected for the purpose of this study. The qualitative study identified 30 key measurement variables for both factors, in which 19 variables were confirmed using the factor analysis technique. The second phase of this research is quantitative research, where a questionnaire was developed based on the qualitative research results. It was then shared with 152 experts in four critical intermediate and final products in Saudi Arabia to test the model quantitatively resulted a positive significant relationship (.297) between the model’s dimensions. A Multidimensional Scale (MDS) technique was used to classify and determine the criticality level of tested products, which resulted in rice as a leveraged product, gasoline as a non-critical product, semiconductors as a strategic product, and insulin as a bottleneck product on a “national level” which was validated by Saudi’s experts as the final step in this research. However, it’s important to note that the study is limited to one country, Saudi Arabia, and has a relatively small sample size; therefore, a number of future studies have been recommended including the context and study sample size.35 0Item Restricted BOARD CAPITAL, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DISCLOSURE QUALITY, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN SAUDI ARABIA: DOES CEO POWER MATTER?(2023) MASWADI, LAILA ALI MOHAMMED; AMRAN, AZLANCorporate social responsibility has become a hot topic of investigation among researchers and many empirical studies have been conducted on the determinants of corporate social responsibility and the role of corporate social responsibility in organizational performance. The current trend in corporate social responsibility research has shifted to the reporting quality of organizations. With the trend shifting in CSR literature toward the quantity and quality of corporate social responsibility disclosure, this research endeavors to use Agency Theory and Resource Dependence Theory to investigate the relationship between board capital (human and social capital) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure quality in the Saudi non-financial firms. It further investigates the relationship between corporate social responsibility disclosure quality and firm performance. Additionally, this research examines the moderating role of CEO power on the relationship between board capital and CSR disclosure quality. Given that influence of board capital is relatively low in Saudi firms, powerful CEOs seek to improve and sustain CSR disclosure quality. A total of 114 non-financial listed firms on the Saudi Stock Exchange for the year 2018 have been analyzed. The study finds that directors’ experience and directors’ interlocking have a positive significant impact on CSR disclosure quality in Saudi non-financial listed firms. It also finds that directors’ political ties negatively impact CSR disclosure quality. As well as finds that CEO power moderates the relationships between directors’ education, directors’ expertise, directors’ interlocking, and CSR disclosure quality in Saudi non-financial listed firms. Finally, the study reveals a positive significant relationship between CSR disclosure quality and firm performance in Saudi non-financial listed firms. Based on the results of this research, policy-makers might use the study’s findings to recognize the importance of both social and human capital attributes for board members in improving the low level of CSR disclosure quality in Saudi Arabia. In addition, the Capital Market Authority should also encourage companies to further address the quality of CSR disclosure, instead of solely focusing on quantity.22 0