International Business Integration of Arab countries:Achievements and Challenges
According to many researchers, gaining competitive advantage, and consequently achieving growth and competitiveness, is quite possible particularly when innovation and entrepreneurship are emphasized. In this paper, the author considers the case of the Arab countries, using secondary data and drawing on relevant academic work. The results of the study indicate that despite some important achievements, there are specific challenges facing these countries in the present era of globalization. After an introduction and literature review, section III provides a broad picture of the overall progress made by Arab countries and the main shortcomings. Section IV elaborates on the necessity of managing people and organizations at best Section V discusses the inadequate understanding or interpretation of competitiveness in Arab countries. Section VI describes the prevailing business culture in these countries. Section VII discusses the particular role of higher education institutions. The last section concludes the paper.
competitiveness competitive advantage technological readiness innovation entrepreneurship education busin
M-Said Oukil
Department of Management & Marketing King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
国际会议
上海
英文
205-209
2011-03-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）