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BAKHEET SAEED BAKHEET AL KATHEERI
Department of Business Administration
College of Business and Economics
Title
Determinants Of Organizational Performance In The Semi-Government Sector Of Abu Dhabi: Strategic
Management Perspective
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Said Elbanna
Defense Date
22 May 2016
Abstract
With a conceptual model, we focused on evaluating the current situation of strategic management practices in
Abu Dhabi’s semi-government sector, a little-researched area, to understand the relationships between strategy
formulation, implementation and evaluation, as elements, and organizational performance; to identify whether
environmental dynamism plays moderating roles in these relationships; and to explore the relationship between
organisational performance and organizational competiveness. Data were collected in Abu Dhabi from semi-
government organizations of the UAE. A questionnaire was used on a sample population of 210 organizations.
182 completed questionnaires were collected and included in the analysis. The structural equation modelling
package, AMOS, was used to test the hypotheses shown in the conceptual model of the study. Our findings suggest
that one dimension of strategy formulation (namely, the intensity of strategic planning), the two dimensions of
strategy implementation (namely, the comprehensiveness and the alignment of strategic plan implementation), and
those of strategy evaluation (namely, accountability and strategic control) are positively related to organizational
performance. We found also that environmental dynamism plays a moderating role in most of these relationships
and organizational performance significantly influences organizational competiveness. The academic and managerial
implications of these findings for both scholars and practitioners are discussed.
Dissertation