Yas Alsultanny and Sara AlZuhair
The purpose of this paper is to assess the technology readiness factors and their influence on the market- and financial-based performance of Saudi cement companies from managers’…
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to assess the technology readiness factors and their influence on the market- and financial-based performance of Saudi cement companies from managers’ perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
The tool of the study is a questionnaire, which is developed to measure technology readiness from the cement companies’ managers’ perspectives; it has six dimensions with 42 statements.
Findings
The findings showed managers’ degree of agreement on the variables; technology readiness contributors (optimism and innovativeness) were set in the agree category, and the inhibitors (discomfort and insecurity) were set in the neutral category. The results also showed no statistically significant influence from the contributors on market-based performance and moderate influence from the inhibitors on market-based performance.
Research limitations/implications
The research was limited to the Saudi cement companies.
Originality/value
This is the first paper to evaluate the Saudi cement companies for technology readiness from perspective of the companies’ managers.
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Yas Alsultanny and Sara AlZuhair
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Saudi cement companies’ market share.
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Saudi cement companies’ market share.
Design/methodology/approach
The data collected from the annual reports and financial statements of 12 companies.
Findings
The analysis of the production indicators showed that seven Saudi companies had a steady state of production capacity, while the other five companies had an increase in their production capacity.
Research limitations/implications
The research is limited to the Saudi cement companies.
Practical implications
The Saudi cement companies add expenditures annually to update their managerial technologies, production equipment and machinery in plants and processes.
Originality/value
The Saudi cement companies must be creating more competition between the cement companies through the opportunity of developing or acquiring new technologies.