Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted Investigating the major causes of mega-project failures and success in Saudi Arabia(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-12-07) Almutairi, Salwa; Tabassi, AminMega-projects are considered as large projects which associated with complex and one-off capital investment such as infrastructure development, Olympic parks, railway, power plants, airport, road constructor and other. Despite the fact that mega-projects has a large influence over the country’s economic and social development; however, it associated with disappointing performance as well. This research main aim was to investigate the major causes of mega-projects failure in Saudi Arabia. It was also taken under the context of Vision 2030 which is a national development plan. For this purpose, survey questionnaire was used to collect data from participants who were domain expert in their profession. A total number of 72 participants responded. The results from data analysis procedures indicated that the most important factors of mega-projects failures in Saudi Arabia includes skills shortages, inadequate team design, lack of reward management system. Poor budget estimation, lack of communication and coordination, inappropriate leadership, poor planning and scheduling, and lack of stakeholder’s involvement. Further, results also indicated that failure of mega-projects in Saudi Arabia directly impact on Saudi Vision 2030. There were different strategies recommended in this research for effective managing mega-projects in Saudi Arabia to avoid failure which included: adoption of appropriate stakeholder engagement methods, implementation of an effective communication system, effective monitoring and supervisor, quality work and equipment management and transformational leadership approach. Finally, a conceptual framework for mega-project management was recommended which can be validated in future work. This research also highlighted on the research limitations and future work.45 0Item Restricted Stakeholders and Stakeseekers’ Perceptions of Cultural Violations and International Crisis Communication(2023-05-20) Albaqami, Najwa; Palenchar, MichaelApplying the expectancy violation theory (EVT) to the crisis communication context, this research explores to what extent stakeholders and stakeseekers’ perceive violations in an international crisis context. Specifically, this study investigated to what extent organizations stakeholders and stakeseekers’ perceive cultural and expectancy violations in an international crisis. Through a case study that analyzed tweets, web blogs, and The New York Times articles, this study identified that the cultural violation theme has two components, including (1) perceived responsibility and harshness of the violation and (2) damage done by the company’s transgression. Whereas expectancy violation theme included (1) frequent use of verbal tactics and (2) highlighting the situation with irony. The results reveal that stakeholders and stakeseekers’ perceptions were affected significantly by the organizations’ violation of culture and expectations. Additionally, the findings suggest that stakeholders and stakeseekers are uncomfortable toward any negative violation conveyed by organizations, (especially if it is related to culture), which may be disappointing, and therefore generate more negative responses to the organization. This study offers a new perspective on EVT by examining how stakeholders and stakeseekers perceive cultural and expectancy violations during an international crisis. It also delves into a new area of research on crisis communication and public relations.21 0