This research provides a novel progression to the existing research about big data analytics capabilities (BDAC) by investigating and measuring its influence on organizational resilience and strategic flexibility. Toward that end, 400 different SMEs in Saudi Arabia were approached. Data were collected via questionnaire. Results confirm that the ability to handle big data analytics totally mediates the relationship between IT capabilities and strategic flexibility. Big data infrastructure flexibility has a negative effect on strategic flexibility. Big data personal expertise not only negatively affects the relationship between IT capabilities and strategic flexibility but also stimulates and reinforces the relationship between strategic flexibility and organizational resilience. The critical pathway developed and tested the trend to make the organization as an immune system able to make the best of the worst. This implies the urgent need for policymakers and managers to adopt and comprehend the concept of BDAC instead of IT capabilities to define oriented plans specifically formulated for stimulating strategic flexibility and organizational resilience. By adopting the proposed model, SMEs can interact more effectively internally and externally.

Due to globalization, business collaborations are made throughout the world. Many industries have started adopting new technologies to make their work easier. Therefore, preparing students for the future workforce is necessary. This can only be achieved only by adopting a new education system. The new education system that supports technologies is known as Education 4.0. Education 4.0, which is sustainable, is a self-based education that adopts AI for learning. Exploring many new technologies and English communication is important for anyone entering the workforce in the future. This study aims at developing Business English communication using Education 4.0. ELSA is one of the applications that supports Education 4.0. The novelty of the current study is that ELSA is used for developing Business English communication. This quantitative study employed a quasi-experimental research design, and a purposive-sampling method was used for selecting the participants. Management students from business schools were selected for this research. Ninety-nine students participated in this study. Later, a pre-test was conducted using a questionnaire. Data were collected and documented. The intervention was carried out for four weeks and adopted Education 4.0. After the intervention period, a post-test was conducted using another questionnaire to check for improvement. The pre-test and post-test data of the participants were compared and analyzed in SPSS using a paired sample t-test. The results showed that listening skills were greatly improved using Education 4.0, which is also important for enhancing other skills, and the participants benefited from using Education 4.0. Moreover, we discuss the study’s limitations, which provides opportunities to conduct future research.

Based on a spatial approach, this study aims to test and appreciate the relationship between natural resource rents, industrial production, and ecological footprint (EFP) for 17 countries in the MENA region over the period 2000–2018. Findings demonstrate the existence of (i) statical significant direct effects between environmental degradation, the level of local development, the resource rent, and the rate of industrialization. (ii) a significant positive spatial autocorrelation in EFP levels with a clear trajectory dependence characteristic in their geographic distribution. (iii) a positive interdependence between economic development, the level of industrialization, and resource rent with neighboring countries; (iv) only renewable energy conception has a negative interdependence with neighboring countries.

In this research, we aim to define and analyze dynamic capabilities (DCs) for organizational resilience (OR) to achieve sustainability in the tourism industry (SST) in Saudi Arabia. In fact, we admit that resilience is the foundation for the development of sustainability based on different factors and capabilities. After debating the concept of DC for resilience and its dimensions, an integrative model of resilience, sustainability, factors and DCs was developed and tested to identify the joined effect of these factors. The research adopted a quantitative research design and the survey method to collect data. Structural equation modeling was selected for data analysis. Through a dataset of 200 respondents, results indicated the four main components of DC significantly affect OR by a mediating effect and moderate the relationship between OR and sustainable tourism. The mediating effect confirmed here is still related to only three resilience factors: resilience network, organizational factors and individual factors. Managerial and theoretical implications are also discussed at the end of this paper. The research model defined and tested can be considered as a critical pathway for resilience on tourism industry in Saudi Arabia after crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic.

This research aims to discover how inclusive education practices can determine the happiness and school satisfaction of students with physical disabilities through the development of self-concept. To achieve the objective of this study, quantitative research was used by administering a questionnaire to 403 students with special needs in secondary and high school in Saudi Arabia. The collected data were analyzed according to structural equation modeling. Our findings support the considerable agreement on the importance of inclusive special needs education for the happiness of physically disabled students. A total mediating effect of self-concept between ISNE and school satisfaction is also confirmed, which shows the great importance of the psychological dimension in special education. These results can orient and assist school managers in defining an appropriate educational environment for students with special needs. They can provide specific directives for raising the happiness and the quality of life of such students, making them more productive and socially active. Following this research, a new school framework can be drawn to protect, assist, and change the self-concept of students with physical special needs to shift the perspective of disability from an obstacle to overcome to an opportunity to exploit.

Environmental entrepreneurship is considered a critical avenue for sustainable development. Despite increasing studies on its benefits and impacts, we lack insights about its corresponding process. There is an increasing need for policymakers to know how to develop this process and what is required for its definition. This research aims to build an innovative theoretical model to explore the trigger factors for the environmental entrepreneurship process in Saudi Arabia, which is the ultimate focus point of this research. To achieve this objective, a deep literature review and a survey of expert entrepreneurs’ opinions were performed. Experts and professionals in entrepreneurship validated the opportunity of readiness factors identified. Data were gathered using a combined approach based on closed-ended questionnaires and arranged interviews according to a schedule. Employing the mixed influence matrix of cross-impact multiplications applied to classification (MICMAC) and the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) approach, the research identifies a hierarchical model of these factors, addressing why and how they interact according to a specific order and priorities. The investigation reveals 15 factors that are structured into three main levels of influence: (1) factors driving the adoption of environmental entrepreneurship orientation, (2) factors related to environmental entrepreneurship intention, and (3) factors for materializing environmental entrepreneurship behavior. The findings emphasize the complementarity between environmental entrepreneurship intention and orientation as a key factor in generating entrepreneurial behavior. This research pioneers the empirical exploration of environmental entrepreneurship as a process. It contributes significantly to theoretical and practical domains by offering a pragmatic framework and better understanding for policymakers and stakeholders to focus on key factors that facilitate this process. This paper is innovative because it uses the integrative ISM–MICMAC approach, supported by a primary and brief bibliometric analysis of entrepreneurship.