This study aimed to know the reality of small entrepreneurship projects in the region of Najran, and the opportunities to develop them in light of the Kingdom's 2030 vision. The study used a descriptive analysis approach based on published reports on the reality of small entrepreneurship projects for the period from 2011-2018. In addition, a questionnaire was employed to find out the size of the challenges facing entrepreneurship projects in the region. The study found that the growth rate of economic establishments in Najran region is continuously increasing at an annual average of 12.2%, and that the ratio of the number of economic establishments in Najran region to the population of the region reached 2.66%, Compared to the neighboring Jizan (0.8%) and Asir (1.6%) regions. The overall challenges facing entrepreneurship projects in Najran region achieved an overall average of 3.51 out of 5, indicating a “high” challenge degree at the level of all axes. Nevertheless, the relative importance of the degree of challenge varies from one axis to another. Therefore, the procedural and organizational challenges got the highest average, followed by the financing challenges, and then the marketing challenges, all of which are of a high degree of challenge, and finally the production challenges with a medium challenge degree. The role of government agencies, institutions and business incubators, that support entrepreneurship projects in the region, got an average of 3.50 with a positive rating in the field of finance, and with an average of 3.3 in the field of consulting. In the field of training, however, they got an average of 2.9, indicating a lower rate. The Kingdom's Vision 2030 provided a package of measures and activities necessary to address the challenges that impede the growth and development of entrepreneurial projects, the most important of which are: establishing a larger share for small enterprises from government procurement and competition, establishing more business incubators and specialized training institutions, establishing government competing capital funds, and raising the capital of “Kafalah” Program. Based on the results of the study, the researcher recommended the establishment of a training center at Najran University specialized in the manufacture of entrepreneurs. Moreover, the Chamber of Commerce should coordinate between entrepreneurship projects and government institutions in the region in order to implement what was mentioned in the vision regarding allocating a quota for small enterprises from government purchases and competitions.

This study aims to evaluate job performance management practices in government agencies in the civil service in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To achieve the study objectives, data were collected from a random sample of 381 employees, which included civil employees who participated in training programs in the first training semester of 2019 at the Institute of Public Administration. The study found that government agencies pay limited attention to the job performance management system, there was lack of readiness from the government agencies to define the objectives to be achieved and their standards government agencies lack of readiness to deal with the performance charter and define the objectives to be achieved and their standards, moreover, there were lack of readiness to evaluate and measure the performance of employees according to the objectives specified in the performance charter, and there were limited use of the job performance system in motivating Employees and their development. Based on these results, the study presented a number of recommendations, the most important of which is the importance of government agencies' support for the job performance management system and providing appropriate training to managers and employees on the job performance management process.

Existing empirical research provides mixed evidence with respect to the relationship between corporate governance and agency costs and firm performance. In this context, this study aims to examine whether the size of the board, its independence levels, its meetings, the ownership levels of both the chairman and the executive’s team are related to agency costs and the performance of the firm. To achieve this goal, several hypotheses are developed and examined using data drawn from the Saudi market covering the period 2017-2019. The results suggest that that the size of the board is positively related to agency costs, while its negatively related to performance. Further, there is a positive relationship between board intendance and agency costs, and a positive relationship between the chairperson ownership and agency costs. Collectively, these results enrich corporate governance literature by providing new empirical evidence to the ongoing debate on the relationship between corporate governance characteristics and agency costs and firms performance.

The study aims to analyze bank liquidity and evaluate its impact on the Arab Bank performance during the period (2015-2019),It used 4 ratios to measure bank liquidity, namely the ratio of cash balance, the ratio of legal reserves, the ratio of legal liquidity, the ratio of employment, while independent variables of financial performance included variables of the return on assets and the return on equity, and the study model was used self-regression VAR, and the results of the study found that the liquidity ratios of the Arab Bank were the most important and most influential factors on its financial performance, the study recommended that Arab Bank should provide the best banking facilities in order to encourage customers ‘deposits.

The study aimed to determine the effect of using electronic social platforms on the pre-purchase decision of Saudi buyers during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to identify the statistical differences in the dependent and independent variables according to the personal characteristics of buyers. Using the social platforms consists of three sub-factors: marketing benefits, content consistency, and normative beliefs. The pre-purchase decision consists of three sub-stages, namely, need recognition, search information, and evaluation alternatives. The study population is all users of online social platforms, the data indicates that there are 25 million Saudis in 2020. The snowball sample method was used to collect data, and the sample size was 500 Saudi users. The questionnaire is considered to be the study tool. The study showed that there was a statistical impact of using social platforms on the pre-purchase decision via the Internet. The results showed that there were statistical differences ten to the Saudi buyers less than high school. Finally, the study recommended the need to merge the social platforms into marketing communication strategies, develop a corporate e-communication strategy and allocate sufficient financial budgets for such strategy.