In the context of recent oil prices fall and resulting budgetary problems faced by KSA, it is very interesting to examine the country’s overdependence on oil revenues. In this paper, we examine whether extreme oil dependence for Saudi Arabia is the symptom of Dutch Disease. We first provide a brief review of the literature on Dutch Disease and the natural resource curse. We then discuss the sym...

Optimisation of PM scheduling for multi-component systems – a simulated annealing approach Mohammad Doostparast a , Farhad Kolahan b & Mahdi Doostparast c a Iranian Oil Pipeline and Telecommunication Company (IOPTC) , Tehran , Iran b Department of Mechanical Engineering , Ferdowsi University of Mashhad , Mashhad , Iran c Department of Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences , Ferdowsi Unive...

in this paper, we examine influence oil shocks on macroeconomic variables and dutch disease phenomena when these variables encountered positive oil revenue shocks. statistical model which is copula approach is used to show when iran's macroeconomic variables encountered positive oil revenue casus dutch disease and oil revenue has non-symmetric influence on the growth economic. in another w...

While organizations’ gains from downsizing and reengineering often prove transitory, the gains from enhancing learning capacity have proven sustainable, cumulative, and selfreinforcing. However, efforts to enhance organizational learning face a wide variety of challenges that must be addressed for sustainable improvement to take place. The authors discuss the 10 key challenges of profound chang...

the purpose of this quantitative correlation study was to determine the extent to which the role of leadership style preferences correlate with employee satisfaction with supervision among employees and leaders of an iranian oil company. this study measured preferences for each of five common leadership styles and examined correlations with measures of employee satisfaction. the styles studied ...

In 2013, Royal Philips was two years into a daunting transformation. Following declining financial performance, CEO Frans van Houten aimed to turn the Dutch icon into a “high-performing company” by 2017. This case study examines the challenges of the business-driven IT transformation at Royal Philips, a diversified technology company. The case discusses three crucial issues. First, the case ref...