Revista Internacional de Economia e Ciências de Gestão

The Chabahar port is set to become a trading hub that will benefit not only Iran but also several other countries and regions like India, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Gulf, Commonwealth Independent States and Europe. The Chabahar Agreement signed by India, Iran and Afghanistan is an important step that has contributed to the port’s development. The development of the Chabahar Free Trade Industrial Zone will also support the growth of the region and aid it in becoming a trade hub. The port’s connectivity via road, railways and air as part of the International North South Transport Corridor opens a completely new route for trade and opens other markets to landlocked countries like Afghanistan and Central Asian countries. It also reduces the time and cost of transportation from Europe drastically. The development of the Chabahar port is being monitored by the world not only for its economic benefits but also for its political significance due to involvement of several countries. The future growth of the region is dependent on the success of these initiatives and the investment it garners from other countries. This paper studies the marketing strategies to link Chabahar port via sea, road, rail and air and the market potential that Chabahar offers to associated countries.

This research constructs E-Readiness for e-learning in Saudi Arabian higher education institutions. Seven dimensions forming E-readiness, namely (Policy, Pedagogy, Technology, Interface Design, Management, Administrative Support, Evaluation and Continual Improvement). Research instrument was developed using pool of items generated from literature, then confirmed using EFA, CFA. The scale served as reliable, valid tool to assess E-Readiness. This research considered unique attributes of teacher, student, and administrator to achieve meaningful comparisons across groups, results exhibit adequate cross-group equivalence which achieved at different levels. Finding confirmed the universality of E-Readiness factors to have significant explaining power, stability of the scale and it isn’t influenced by differences of groups either conceptually or psychometrically, therefore, ability for testing the measurement model for participants in e-learning with no need for separation. The study provides a theoretical insights and empirical findings. Discussion, implication of finding and recommendation for future research in e-learning in higher education institutions were presented.

This research aims to find the relationship between ethical leadership and employee creativity. Data collected from Saudi Telecom Company (STC), Dammam branch. The study was applied to a sample of 62 leaders and 135 employees. The result of the study showed that there a significant relationship between ethical leadership and employee creativity. The study recommended that in order to increase and improve the employee creativity, leaders need to improve ethical leadership dimensions that related to fairness and role clarification.