The Business Environment of Arab Gulf State Organizations
Abstract
The Dubai Ports World fiasco provides a vivid example of the poor decisions that can be made when stakeholders in the United States deal with unfamiliar cultures. the author was sponsored by a Fulbright Scholars Grant in 2005 to live and teach in a university in Oman, where he gained insights into organizations in the Gulf States. the article describes the author's experiences in Oman and Dubai and provides a platform to identify some of the major misconceptions and develop reasonable expectations regarding the operations of organizations from the Gulf States. the paper deals with expectations of how to deal with firms from the Gulf States, such as Dubai Ports World, and concludes with extrapolations of what might lie ahead for firms in these countries as the petroleum production begins to become depleted.
Recommended Citation
H. Nystrom, "The Business Environment of Arab Gulf State Organizations," 27th Annual National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management 2006 - Managing Change: Managing People and Technology in a Rapidly Changing World, ASEM 2006, pp. 735 - 738, American Society for Engineering Management, Dec 2006.
Department(s)
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
Arab gulf states; Business environment; Fulbright scholar grant
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-160423714-6
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2024 American Society for Engineering Management , All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Dec 2006
