... to change limiting flexibility in project execution. It focuses on deviations from international project execution standards, as found in large construction projects in the Middle East, specifically Saudi Arabia. Research limitations/implications The limitation of the research lies in arriving...

... in small “services used” DEA model. However, some other medium‐sized cities show contrarian behaviour for “space used” DEA model. Lowest performance is more divergent in the analyses, but is found from Spanish cities, Athens, Middle East and North America. The author also found support from regression...

... production Middle East These strategies and all other strategies in operations management (OM) have been first and mostly discussed in manufacturing field. In fact the service sector has been treated as a “rival wife” in business world. It is argued that service benchmarking is made more difficult...