Raed Khamis Alharbi's scientific contributions

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Purpose Affordable housing provision is one of the visions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), as highlighted in Vision 2030. For about 21 months now, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has ravaged the world and has increased the level of economic crisis and financial uncertainty to achieve planned projects. Studies investigating th...
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Purpose The sound viability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) positively influences nations’ economic growth. Studies investigating the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on SMEs in Saudi Arabia (KSA) and how the owners will source for working capital and short-term loans to kick start in the post-Covid-19 recovery are scarce. Hence, this study a...
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Purpose Even with the Saudi Arabian Government's discretionary measures to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the economic sectors were not spared from the damage. Thus, the paper aims to use a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's (KSA) economy, w...
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Purpose For almost two years, the economic shocks and financial uncertainty created by the Covid-19 pandemic have affected all sectors. The private sector employees may be the worst hit. This is because of the lockdown across many countries, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), leading to income irregularities. Studies exploring private-sec...
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Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between religiosity and branding on small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs’) performance in Saudi Arabia. It also examines the mediating role of financial literacy on the relationship among Islamic religiosity, branding and SMEs’ performance. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts the p...
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Previous studies that examined the effect of characteristics of managers on the performance mainly concentrated large companies. The review of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) literature reveals limited research has attempted to investigate the moderating effect of access to finance in SMEs, particularly in the developing countries. This stu...

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... Moreover, Ref. [70] discovered the awareness of sustainability using ESG criteria in Saudi organizations and their obligation to sustainability by reducing the risks of the organization's sustainability. Ref. [71] also demonstrated that SMEs in Saudi Arabia play a major role in the Saudi gross domestic product growth, proposing policy solutions to improve the access to sustainability (finance and investment) to achieve Saudi Vision 2030. ...
... Saudi Arabia, the context of this study, places increased emphasis on economic sustainability in line with its Vision 2030 to achieve a knowledge-based economy, among other objectives [6,7]. However, like most developing economies, Saudi Arabia's major problem is its ability to meet the set developmental targets in the face of the current financial and economic crisis, which has further complicated the situation [8,9]. This development has severely affected the accomplishment of many of the relevant SDGs and had direct negative effects on economic growth, employment, poverty, and several other macroeconomic indicators. ...
... By selling at higher prices with better profit margins, halal branding can help businesses reach new customers, gain a competitive advantage, and boost their profitability (Ali et al., 2018). In order to execute specialized techniques, improving halal literacy should take into account the religion and culture of the region where SMEs are located (Alharbi, Yahya and Kassim, 2021). The Philippines' business community's results regarding the provision of halal goods can influence Muslim religion-based product development strategies (Acas and Loanzon, 2020). ...
... Similar findings in a study conducted by Alharbi et al., (2018) revealed that the ownermanagers' personal skills, experience and training have a moderating effect on the organisation's performance. ...