Determining the causal relationships among balanced scorecard perspectives on school safety performance: Case of Saudi Arabia

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 57-74

  Alolah, Turki ^a,b   Stewart, Rodney A ^a   Panuwatwanich, Kriengsak ^a   Mohamed, Sherif ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Ministry of Education Saudi Arabia   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard; Exploratory factor analysis; Partial least squares; Safety; Safety performance evaluation; Saudi Arabia; Schools; Structural equation model; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SAFETY FACTOR; SYSTEM THEORY; TEACHING;

BALANCED SCORECARDS; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); SAFETY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOLS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ACCIDENT; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; BALANCED SCORECARD; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; POLICY; SAFETY; SAFETY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL; STATISTICS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODEL; SYSTEMS THEORY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BALANCED SCORECARD; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES; SAFETY; SAFETY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOLS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODEL; SYSTEMS THEORY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MANAGEMENT AUDIT; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOLS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84899408533     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2014.02.002     Document Type: Article

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