The economic and sustainability priorities in the United Arab Emirates: conflict exploration

IF 2.4 Q3 BUSINESS
M. Pejić Bach, Berislav Žmuk, Tanja Kamenjarska, Maja Bašić, Bojan Morić Milovanović
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Purpose This paper aims to explore and analyse stakeholders’ perceptions of the development priorities and suggests more effective strategies to assist sustainable economic growth in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach The authors use the World Bank data set, which collects various stakeholders’ opinions on the UAE development. First, the exploratory factor analysis has been applied to detect the main groups of development priorities. Second, the fuzzy cluster analysis has been conducted to detect the groups of stakeholders with different attitudes towards the importance of extracted groups of priorities. Third, clusters have been compared according to demographics, media usage and shared prosperity goals. Findings The two main groups of development priorities have been extracted by the exploratory factor analysis: economic priorities and sustainability priorities. Four clusters have been detected according to the level of motivation when it comes to the economic and sustainability priorities: Cluster 1 (High economic – High sustainability), Cluster 2 (High economic – Medium sustainability), Cluster 3 (High economic – Low sustainability) and Cluster 4 (Low economic – Low sustainability). Members of the cluster that prefer a high level of economic and sustainability priorities (Cluster 1) also prefer more diversified economic growth providing better employment opportunities and better education and training for young people in the UAE. Research limitations/implications Limitations stem from the survey being conducted on a relatively small sample using the data collected by the World Bank; however, this data set allowed a comparison of various stakeholders. Future research should consider a broader sample approach, e.g. exploring and comparing all of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries; investigating the opinions of the expatriate managers living in the UAE that are not from GCC countries; and/or including other various groups that are lagging, such as female entrepreneurs. Practical implications Several practical implications were identified regarding education and media coverage. Since respondents prioritize the economic development factors over sustainability factors, a media campaign could be developed and executed to increase sustainability awareness. A campaign could target especially male citizens since the analysis indicates that males are more likely to affirm high economic and low sustainability priorities than females. There is no need for further diversification of media campaigns according to age since the analysis did not reveal relevant differences in age groups, implying there is no inter-generational gap between respondents. Originality/value This paper contributes to the literature by comparing the perceived importance of various development goals in the UAE, such as development priorities and shared prosperity indicators. The fuzzy cluster analysis has been used as a novel approach to detect the relevant groups of stakeholders in the UAE and their developmental priorities. The issue of media usage and demographic characteristics in this context has also been discussed.
阿拉伯联合酋长国的经济和可持续性优先事项:冲突探索
目的本文旨在探索和分析利益相关者对发展优先事项的看法,并提出更有效的战略来帮助阿拉伯联合酋长国(UAE)的可持续经济增长。设计/方法/方法作者使用世界银行的数据集,该数据集收集了各利益相关者关于阿联酋发展的意见。首先,探索性因素分析已被应用于检测发展重点的主要群体。其次,进行了模糊聚类分析,以检测对提取的优先级组的重要性持不同态度的利益相关者组。第三,根据人口统计、媒体使用和共同繁荣目标对集群进行了比较。探索性因素分析提取了两组主要的发展优先事项:经济优先事项和可持续性优先事项。根据经济和可持续性优先事项的动机水平,已发现四个集群:集群1(高经济-高可持续性)、集群2(高经济–中等可持续性),集群3(高经济--低可持续性)和集群4(低经济--低可持续性)。更喜欢高水平经济和可持续发展优先事项的集群成员(集群1)也更喜欢更多样化的经济增长,为阿联酋的年轻人提供更好的就业机会和更好的教育和培训。研究局限性/含义局限性源于使用世界收集的数据对相对较小的样本进行的调查银行然而,该数据集允许对各种利益相关者进行比较。未来的研究应考虑更广泛的样本方法,例如探索和比较所有海湾合作委员会国家;调查居住在阿联酋的非海湾合作委员会国家外籍经理的意见;和/或包括其他各种落后的群体,如女企业家。实际含义在教育和媒体报道方面确定了一些实际含义。由于受访者将经济发展因素置于可持续性因素之上,因此可以开展和执行媒体宣传活动,以提高可持续性意识。一场运动可能特别针对男性公民,因为分析表明,男性比女性更有可能肯定高经济和低可持续性的优先事项。没有必要根据年龄进一步多样化媒体宣传活动,因为分析没有揭示年龄组的相关差异,这意味着受访者之间没有代际差距。原创性/价值本文通过比较阿联酋各种发展目标的重要性,如发展优先事项和共同繁荣指标,为文献做出了贡献。模糊聚类分析已被用作一种新的方法来检测阿联酋的相关利益相关者群体及其发展优先事项。在此背景下,还讨论了媒体使用和人口统计特征的问题。
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