The study aimed to identify the relationship between the technical, human, and
regulatory abilities, and the adoption of decision support system in the Syrian Coast Banks.
The researcher used the comprehensive inventory of all the banks in the Syri
an Coast style,
and relied on a questionnaire for data collection, where she distributed (118) to identify a
sample of workers in the studied banks. The study concluded that the technical, human and
regulatory abilities, have a role on the adoption of decision support system in the Syrian
Coast Banks, and the most important result was that the banks own human capital is able to
adopt a decision support systems. Then some of the recommendations show up for
successful adoption of decision support systems and most important are: increased interest
in available regulatory abilities through the necessity of a separate unit for decision support
systems directly linked to the senior management at the banks in the Syrian Coast, and let
the organizational structure to flow the information easily between different departments,
greater attention to human abilities available to use the decision support systems like:
provision of specialized training programs for workers to use decision support system
software.
Economic literature has shown the important and prominent role of financial
development in economic development and growth, through the effective pooling and
allocation of national savings towards investments in support of economic development.
He
nce, it is highly important to look for the real determinants of financial development.
This study investigates the determinants of the financial development of Syria, Lebanon
and Jordan for the period between 1995 and 2014, by applying the method of Ordinary
Least Squares (OLS), to a set of determinants adopted in previous studies. The study found
a statistically significant effect of only three of the nine determinants tested on the level of
private credit by depository institutions (financial sector activity). It also concludes a
statistically significant effect of only five determinants on the level of Liquid Liabilities
(financial sector size). The determinants are: inflation, bank concentration, rule of law,
control of corruption, contract enforcement and improving supervision of banks. Reforms
that contribute in reducing corruption, enforcing contracts, improving the rule of law,
improving supervision on banks, reducing the level of inflation and the level of bank
concentration, are the most important factors that we need to focus on in the long run, to
achieve financial development (size and activity).This in turn contributes to real economic
development in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
