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The Effect of Growth Strategies on Degree of Internationalization: A Study on Turkish Exporters
Get PDFThe phenomenon of globalization, which has become widespread since the last quarter of the last century, is one of the most important elements that come to the forefront in the development and becoming hegemonic of neoliberal ideology.
In this article the relationship of firm characteristics and the degree of internalization has been examined and the mediating effect of international growth strategies of the top 1000 exporting Turkish companies has been analysed. It has been detected that international growth strategies have a mediating effect between firm characteristics and the degree of internalization. Another contribution of the study is the result that R&D has a positive effect on the International growth strategies and degree of internalization.
This research will also be a guide for developing firms in Turkey for selecting the right international growth strategies and form their firm characteristics in order to be successful during their globalization process
The Effects of Trade Wars on World Welfare
Get PDFIn this study, the effect of trade wars on global welfare is investigated. It is known that the USA and China mutually increased the data rates applied to some imported products. If many commodity groups are included in the trade wars, it is a matter of curiosity how the welfare level will be affected. In this study, the effects of restrictions or tax increases applied by countries on imported goods on welfare are examined. For this reason, we aimed to look at the trade wars between the world's largest economies, the USA and China, over some goods from a broad perspective. We also expanded our research and included the European Union, which is an important economic power, together with the USA and China. Thus, we aimed to investigate the impact of a possible trade war between the world's largest economies on both the welfare of the countries and the global welfare. According to the results we have obtained, trade wars negatively affect both the welfare level of countries and the global economy
Systematic Literature Analysis for Supply Chain Conflicts: Paving the Way for Future Studies
Get PDFThis research provides a systematic overview regarding the Supply Chain Conflicts in Business-to-Business (B2B) relationships and defines and categorizes the main conflict areas and resolution mechanisms by conducting a content analysis. Based on the screening of 343 studies published mainly in the literature on marketing, business, management literature and other disciplines during 2010-2021, a systematic review and a content analysis were applied to find out the current situation and future research directions on this topic. In this research, within the context of descriptive analysis, sectoral-based analysis enables us to identify areas where conflicts are prevalent and where there is a need for further action. Regarding content analysis, highly fragmented synthesis presents how areas of conflicts and conflict resolution mechanisms are formed in the current B2B context. By providing a summary of the existing research direction on the subject, published in peer-reviewed international journals that publish research in English, this study contributes to the future academic work by identifying conflict sources and resolution methods to achieve better conflict management practices within the supply chains. With the findings of the research, companies can review their business practices and the underlying factors of conflict situations to improve their supply chains and gain ideas for their resolution. This research also contributes to the industrial marketing literature by providing an assembled and synthesized knowledge for scholars on supply chain conflicts with resolution mechanisms in both the social sciences and interdisciplinary management; deriving a comprehensive analysis of methods and insights addressed by researchers in the field
WILL YOU CARRY THAT WATCH? INVESTIGATING FACTORS THAT AFFECT CONTINUANCE INTENTION OF SMARTWATCHES
Get PDFThe interest in wearable technologies, especially smartwatches rise day by day parallel with technological developments and an increasing need to monitor health. In line with those developments, this study aims to investigate the role of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, user satisfaction, healthology in explaining smartwatch continuance intention. In addition, this study investigates the relationships between perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, healthology and user satisfaction. Questionnaire method was used to gather data from actual smartwatch consumers in Turkey and the data analyzed by utilizing structural equation modeling. Findings demonstrate that the most powerful variable to explain smartwatch continuance intention is perceived usefulness, whereas perceived ease of use contributes to user satisfaction the most. Also, healthology is positively related to both user satisfaction and continuance intention. The results also highlight the importance of continuance intention to increase intention to recommend smartwatches to other people
The Relationship between Personal Traits, Travel Motivation, Perceived Value and Behavioural Intention of Tourists Participating in Adventure Activities
Get PDFThe personality traits of tourists and their instinct to travel are seen as factors influencing their holiday purchase decisions. In addition, it is known that the attractiveness characteristics of destinations are factors affecting tourists before or during the holiday purchase decision. At this point, knowing the personality traits of tourists, the factors push them to travel, and the factors pull them to a certain destination are very important for destination management organizations and managers of tourism and adventure activity businesses that aim to attract tourists to their destinations or businesses.
In the scope of the research, an application has been carried out for tourists participating in adventure activities in Fethiye. Data were obtained from 405 tourists using the survey technique. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that there is a significant relationship between the personality traits and perceived value. In addition, it was found that there is a strong and significant relationship between the perceived value of tourists and their loyalty. Significant relationships were found between the perceived value of tourists and the factors pushing them to travel and pulling them to the destination. It has been found that there are significant relationships between the level of loyalty of tourists and the factors pushing them to travel and pulling them to the destination
The Effect of Customer Empowering Behaviors on Service Performance in Hospitality Industry
No full textCustomers’ actions may encourage and motivate employees to make decisions about successful service delivery which is called customer empowering behaviors (Dong, Chuang, Liao, Zhou & Campbell, 2015). This article aims to explain antecedents of customer empowering behaviors which have impacts on employee absorption and customer service performance in the service industry. In this study, a multilevel conceptual model is used and suggests that customer empowering behaviors will be efficient on customer service performance through fostering job engagement. Quantitative research method is used by collecting questionnaires from 421 frontline employees who work either at the reception desk or guest relations in hotels with 4 and 5 stars in the South and South Western districts of Turkey. SEM and HLM were used to analyze collected data in research. The results indicate that customer empowering behaviors play a vital role that affects customer service performance through promoting employee absorption, however, customer complexity has not any significant effect on relationships between customer empowering behaviors and employee absorption and customer service performance
The Relationship between Monetary Policy and Asset Prices: Evidence from the Turkish Economy
Get PDFThe developments in the US housing and real estate sectors played an important role during the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The findings of previous theoretical and empirical studies have revealed that there was a strong relationship between the expansionary monetary policy that included high liquidity and low interest rates in the US economy and the housing price bubble, which played a central role in the development of the crisis. These developments have revealed the importance of the relationship between monetary policies and asset prices.In this direction, the present study aims to conduct an empirical investigation of the relationship between monetary policies and asset prices in the Turkish economy. In line with this purpose, the SVAR approach was used in the study. The period included within the scope of the present study was determined as 2011:5-2018:5. According to the findings obtained, it is observed that the only significant reaction of monetary policies to the variables included within the model was to real effective exchange rate and treasury bill rate. Additionally, the effects of monetary policies on real effective exchange rate, housing price index, BIST 100 index, treasury bill rate and interest of government securities were found to be significant
Match-Referee Matching Model in Football
Get PDFReferees are assigned to football matches in Turkey by a three-person subcommittee formed by Central Referee Committee, a subsidiary of the Turkish Football Federation, in a non-transparent way and this procedure makes manipulation possible. Therefore, referee appointments are among the topics discussed in the football world. It is a major deficiency that the matching theory, which has been successful in regulating many problematic markets, has not been used to date in football for referee appointments. In this study, a match-referee matching model, using the Gale-Shapley algorithm, for the football matches played in Turkish professional football leagues is proposed. The match-referee matching result offered by this algorithm is the best possible stable matching result for the clubs. This matching result is produced in line with the preferences of the clubs and clubs' satisfaction is at the forefront. Most importantly, it is obtained through a transparent, clear, fair and manipulation-free match-referee matching system
The Impact of Learning Organizations on Organizational Resilience Through Institutionalization: A Study During the Period of Covid-19
Get PDFThis study aims to determine the impact of learning organizations on organizational resilience through institutionalization. The population consisted of the managers of four and five-star accommodation businesses in Alanya, Turkey. The implementation step was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in September 2020 in 54 facilities, 43 of which were five-star and 11 four-star. A total of 392 questionnaires were collected while performing the study. As a result of the factor analyses regarding the variables in this study, it was found that organizational resilience consisted of one factor which was also called organizational resilience, that institutionalization included three factors named professionalization-consistency, social responsibility, and formalization, and that learning organization contained two factors called individual and organizational learning. Correlation analyses indicated a positive and significant relationship between the factors of organizational resilience, institutionalization, and learning organization. Hierarchical regression analysis and the Sobel test were utilized to determine the mediating impact. The results of the hierarchical regression analysis indicated that three institutionalization factors had a fully mediating role in terms of the impact of learning organization factors on organizational resilience.
Keywords: Organizational Resilience, Institutionalization, Learning Organization, Accommodation Businesses
JEL Codes: M19, L20, L29, L83
 
The Determinants of Commercial Banks Profitability and Importance of Remittance in Lebanese Banks: Return of Equity and Remittance in Lebanon
No full textFor the developing countries, it is important to have effective functioning and developed banking sector to growth. In this study, the factors determining the banking profitability in Lebanon as a developing country were examined. The study primarily investigates the effects of remittance (REM), capital adequacy(CA) and Returns of average assets (ROA) on return on equity (ROE) in Lebanon. The annual data covers the 13 banks period between 2008 and 2019.
According to results of the model estimated through the System Generalized Moments Estimator, ROA, REM, and CA variables have positive coefficient and statistically significant in explaining ROE. The findings shows that the indicators related with the banking sector are more influential for the return on equity in Lebanon rather than remittance