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A Systematic Literature Review on Sustainable Restaurants: The Case of Turkey
Get PDFThe negative environmental impact of restaurants has received a lot of attention from academics in the last decade. After the entry of the Michelin Guide in Turkey, which is a developing country, sustainability as a concept in the restaurant sector started to implement activities related to becoming a sustainable restaurant in the last two years. The current literature review aims to synthesise research that addresses sustainability issues in the Turkish restaurants. The systematic literature review method was used to identify and totally 32 research articles were evaluated. The research profile which identifies the timeline of publications, journals, cities studied, methods used, and stakeholders discussed in these studies. The results showed that the research generally addressed green restaurants rather than sustainable restaurants and was conducted from 2015 onwards. The qualitative content analysis of the identified studies resulted in different subtitles: sustainability indicators, stakeholders and their roles, practices in green restaurants. For each subtitle, research gaps were summarised, and potential future research questions were suggested. Based on the results of the review, a research framework for understanding the ecosystem of the restaurant sector in Turkey was developed
Reflections of Digitalization on the Service Sector: The Effect of Customer Experience on Brand Perception in Digital Banking Applications
Get PDFThis study aims to investigate the effects of digitalization in banking sector, one of building blocks of service sector, on brand loyalty. For this purpose, a structural equation model is used to determine the impact of digital banking customer experience on brand trust, brand loyalty and perceived quality in the study. Data of 597 participant is collected by survey method and analyzed by PLS based structural equation model (PLS-SEM). Results show that customer experience has a positive and statistically significant effect on perceived quality, brand trust and brand loyalty and also perceived quality and brand trust have statistically significant effect on brand loyalt
Modeling The Integration Process of Lean Production Techniques Into Mass Catering Production
Get PDFIn this study, the integration process of lean production techniques into mass catering production has been investigated, and this integration process has been modeled based on the current conditions of a catering firm using traditional production methods. The main steps of the study consist of literature review, data collection, model formation, and comparative analysis. The model was developed based on data collected from a catering company that has been able to integrate some lean production techniques into its production process and obtained from literature review. In the model, approximately 64 m2 of idle space was identified in the operation, workflow arrangements negatively affecting labor productivitiy were made, and recommendations were provided to reduce high inventory levels. In the comparative analysis stage, the production costs of two businesses were compared by ratioing production volume and labor capacity
Digital Banking Adoption: Evidence from the Nigerian Youth Market
Get PDFThis study aims to identify the factors influencing the adoption of digital banking in the Nigerian youth market. The research explores the adoption of both mobile and internet banking as part of a single digital banking concept. The research model extends the technology acceptance model (TAM) by further examining the impact of awareness, culture, social norms, perceived trust, perceived security on behavioral intention. The results suggest a strong influence of perceived trust on behavioral intention to adopt digital banking. Perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived security and perceived risk are key determinants of perceived trust in the Nigerian context. Other factors affecting behavioral intention are awareness and social norms
Estimating the Effect of Smoking and Alcohol Consumption on Health Expenditures by Spectral Causality Approach: Evidence from The Turkish Case
Get PDFThe main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of smoking and alcohol use on health expenditures in Turkey. For this purpose, the spectral Granger causality approach was used and the data set were collected from the OECD stat website for the period 1990 and 2019. According to the first finding, there is a strong causality between smoking and alcohol use and health expenditure, specifically in the 0, 0.5 domains, and supports the existence of bidirectional causality. Secondly, while there was a unidirectional causality from alcohol to health, this causality was found to be stronger in the following years. The last finding surprisingly revealed that tobacco use was not the Granger cause of health expenditures, whereas reverse causality was only supported in the domains of 0 and 2.
Consumers' Omnichannel Integration Quality, Credibility and Innovativeness Perceptions of the Brands and Omnichannel Adoptions
Get PDFIn this study it is aimed to reveal how brands' omnichannel integration quality, omnichannel credibility and perceived innovativeness influence consumers’ omnichannel adoption and to reveal the mediating role of perceived omnichannel value on this effect. Also, it examines the omnichannel usage in tourism, banking, clothing and furniture sectors. For this purpose, the data obtained by sending an online questionnaire via social media applications and via email to 411 people from different cities and having different demographic characteristics were analyzed by SEM method. According to the results of the analysis, a relationship was found between omnichannel integration quality, omnichannel credibility and perceived brand innovativeness. In addition, it was concluded that perceived omnichannel value has a mediating role in the effect of omnichannel credibility and brand innovativeness variables on the omnichannel adoption variable, while it does not have a mediating role in the effect of the omnichannel integration quality variable on the omnichannel adoption variable. It is thought that this study and the results obtained are important in terms of being a guide in theory and practice, since the variables in the study are related to the use of omnichannel in the product and service purchasing processes of consumers
The Transformation of Social Contract Theory: From Classical Natural Law Theory to the Individual of Liberalism
Get PDFThis article aims to analyze how classical Natural Law Theory in the 17 th century underwent a philosophical and epistemological transformation to become the foundational theory of the modern state in 17th century Europe. One of the primary focuses of this analysis is on exploring the historical societal processes and phenomena resulting from the principles of the Theory of Natural Law, particularly the theories of social contract. Another pivotal aspect of this scrutiny involves analyzing the relationship between individual-reason-nature, grounded in Liberalism's Theory of Natural Law, by comparing perspectives on Natural society and symbolic society. In a sense, this article aims to bridge distant and recent history, creating a short circuit to analyze the changes and transformations within the Theory of Natural Law.
Presenteeism in Organizations: A Research on the Impact of Psychological Ownership in Healtcare Professionals
Get PDFThe purpose of this research is to examine the behaviors of presenteeism (PT) in employees and to determine whether psychological ownership (PO) has an effect on these behaviors. Accordingly, data has been obtained from 485 healthcare professionals in the public and private sectors by survey method and independent sample T Test and One-Way ANOVA Tests have been carried out with validity, reliability, normality, correlation, multiple regression analyses for this data. As a result of the analyses carried out; a negatively significant relationship has been found between PO and PT and a 1-unit increase in PO has been found to cause a decrease of 0.410 units on PT. However, it has been concluded that the level of PT in single employees is higher than that of married employees, PT is higher in private sector workers than in public sector workers, and in employees under 21, compared to those aged 21-40 and 41-60, and as the duration of work experience and monthly income level increases, PT decreases gradually
The Role of Happiness on Job Satisfaction and Employee Performance: A Cross-Cultural Research in Italy and Turkey
Get PDFThe research aims to analyse the explanatory effects of workplace happiness on employee performance, and discover whether the variables were affected by cultural variations. The Italian sample, taken in July 2017 consisting of 409 responses resulted that "happiness at work" positively affects employee performance, fully mediates between job satisfaction and performance. Besides, job satisfaction indirectly associates performance only through the developer contribution of “happiness at work”. The Turkish sample, taken in January 2018 consisting of 550 responses showed the positive effect of “happiness at work” on employee performance, moderates only by the means of the interaction of job satisfaction and performance. The study provides current validation for the assumption that “Happy employees are more productive at work” and contributes to previous studies suggesting that relationships of variables can be affected by cultural characteristics
Determining Consumer Default Risk with Data Mining Techniques: An Empirical Analysis on Turkey
Get PDFThe aim of this study, which deals with consumer default risk, is to reveal the financial, socioeconomic and demographic determinants of default risk at household level. Credit risk was investigated with various variables by applying data mining methods to the data set obtained from the Turkish Statistical Institute, Household Income and Living Conditions Survey covering the years 2016, 2017, 2018. Analyses were carried out using the WEKA data mining program. The findings of the study revealed that variables such as gender, age, marital status, education level, health status, employment status, region of residence and income status are important determinants of default. The findings of the study are thought to be an important reference for lenders in terms of risk assessment. In addition, the findings are expected to shed light on policy makers in terms of regulations to be applied to financial markets