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Publication Metadata only A gender- and class-sensitive explanatory model for rural women entrepreneurship in Turkey(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2020) N/A; N/A; Kurtege Sefer, Bengü; Researcher; The Center for Gender Studies (KOÇ-KAM) / Koç Üniversitesi Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmaları Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi (KOÇ-KAM); N/A; 364663Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a new gender- and class-sensitive framework for research on rural women entrepreneurship by focusing on the women's agricultural cooperatives in Turkey. Although these cooperatives have been promoted as ideal bottom-to-top organizations to integrate women into economy as entrepreneurs, there has been significant decline in their numbers. This paper tackles with this contradictory situation and intends to offer an alternative research framework on the viability of the women's agricultural cooperatives in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach The paper is built on a critical assessment of the existing literature. It argues that a framework that brings together macro-, meso- and micro-factors will provide a springboard to unfold the gendered processes integral to rural female entrepreneurship in Turkey. Drawing on intersectional theory, the multilayered factors which operate to rural women's (dis)advantages through the cooperatives are unfolded as policymaking, policy implementation and everyday experiences. Findings For policymakers and implementers, it points out the need for a holistic and integrated understanding of rural female entrepreneurship and for re-formulation of policies at the state level. For rural women, it draws attention to the measures required to be taken at the cooperative level to overcome inequalities. Originality/value This paper is original in making explicit social, political and economic embeddedness of female entrepreneurship in rural Turkey.Publication Metadata only Aggregate investor preferences and beliefs: a comment(Elsevier Science Bv, 2013) Kopa, Milos; N/A; Post, Gerrit Tjeerd; Other; Graduate School of Business; N/AA recent study in this journal presents encouraging results of a daunting simulation analysis of the statistical properties of a centered bootstrap approach to stochastic dominance efficiency analysis. However, by relying on the first-order optimality condition in a situation where multiple optima may occur, the empirical analysis draws the questionable conclusion that some of the toughest data sets in empirical asset pricing can be rationalized by the representative investor maximizing an S-shaped utility function, consistent with the so-called Prospect Stochastic Dominance criterion. Further research could be directed to developing global optimization algorithms and consistent re-sampling methods for statistical inference for general risky choice problems.Publication Metadata only An empirical examination of personal learning within the context of teams(Wiley, 2016) Jiang, Yuan; Jackson, Susan E.; N/A; Çolakoğlu, Saba Sultan; Other; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/AUsing a sample of 588 employees in 59 work teams, we tested a model that situates personal learning within the context of teams, viewing it as a joint function of teams' leadership climate (i.e., transformational leadership) and task characteristics (i.e., task routineness and task interdependence). Consistent with our hypotheses, we found that the positive relationships between transformational leadership climate and the two dimensions of personal learning (relational job learning and personal skill development) were moderated by the nature of the teams' tasks. Specifically, transformational leadership climate was more strongly associated with personal learning for members of teams working on tasks that were less routine, rather than more routine. However, no significant moderation was found for leadership climate and task interdependence. Our findings underscore the importance of taking into account the contextual conditions within which leadership influence occurs while also demonstrating the potential role that leaders can play in promoting employees' personal learning. Overall, our study bolsters theories that conceptualize adult learning as a transaction between people and their social environments and points to a practical need to match leadership styles with team task characteristics to unleash transformational leadership effects. Copyright (c) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Publication Metadata only An empirical investigation of the relationship between task integration, effort allocation, control and governance mode of foreign operations(Amer Marketing Assoc, 2000) Department of Business Administration; N/A; Gençtürk, Esra; Faculty Member; N/A; Department of Business Administration; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A; 107322; N/AControl of foreign marketing activities is a serious challenge for marketing managers involving both gaining control over independent distributors as well as the division of control between home and foreign office managers. Existing research has mostly assumed that high equity modes provide greater control for the organization compared to the use of nonequity modes. In this study, we suggest that home office control of marketing tasks is influenced not only by entry mode but also by task characteristics. More specifically, this study provides a preliminary empirical assessment of how home office control of marketing tasks in foreign markets varies over alternative modes of entry, different marketing tasks performed, and in relation to different levels of home office managerial time and effort dedicated to monitoring such tasks.Publication Metadata only Assessing the sources of competitiveness of the US states(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2017) Akpinar, Murat; Can, Ozge; N/A; Mermercioğlu, Melike; Teaching Faculty; Graduate School of Business; 26591Purpose - This study aims to test the emerald model on the regional basis for the identification of the most important sources of competitiveness in the states of the US. Design/methodology/approach - Using the emerald model and its assertions, data are collected over the period 1998-2013 from 47 states in the US. Multiple regression analysis is performed with a lag structure of four, six and eight years as alternative time intervals to explain the dependent variable. Findings - The empirical results support the emerald model except for its R&D attractiveness dimension in its ability to explain competitiveness in the states of the US. In the longer term (eight-year lag), cluster attractiveness has the highest impact, followed by environmental attractiveness, ownership attractiveness, educational attractiveness and talent attractiveness. Comparison of regression models with different time lags indicates that once the very early phase is over, the impacts of most attractiveness dimensions become rather consistent across time and do not disappear. Originality/value - The study contributes to the literature on the measurement of regional competitiveness by performing an overall assessment of the emerald model and by analyzing the impacts of the model's dimensions on competitiveness over time. On the other hand, the identification of the sources of regional competitiveness paves the way for a more efficient allocation of resources regarding policies and improvement programs.Publication Metadata only Business and human rights in occupied territory: the UN database of business active in Israel's settlements(Cambridge Univ Press, 2018) N/A; Azarova, Valentina; Researcher; Center for Global Public Law (CGPL) / Küresel Kamu Hukuku Çalışmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (KÜREMER); N/A; N/AThe law and practice concerning the responsibilities of businesses and the obligations of their home states in relation to private dealings in occupied territory are under-developed. The establishment of a database by the United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to monitor the activities of corporate actors in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) is an opportunity to provide much-needed guidance on the scope of application of existing international law in this paradigmatic case of a high-risk business environment. This article engages with the contribution of this initiative to the regulation of transnational corporate dealings through two normative issues: the structural characteristics and effects of the violations taking place in certain business environments maintained in the OPT on the responsibilities of business and home states; and the various modes through which businesses become directly linked with and contribute to the illicit property rights regime underpinning the existence of settlements and the serious human rights abuses perpetuated by their maintenance.Publication Metadata only Business groups in the west: origins, evolution, and resilience(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018) Hikino, Takashi; N/A; Çolpan, Aslı M.; Other; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/AThis volume aims to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large enterprises in today's developed economies. It focuses on the economic institution of business groups and attempts to comprehend the factors behind their rise, growth, struggle, and resilience; their behavioral and organizational characteristics; and their roles in national economic development. The volume seeks to enhance the scholarly and policy-oriented understanding of business groups in developed economies by bringing together state-of-the-art research on the characteristics and contributions of large enterprises in an evolutionary perspective. While business groups are a dominant and critical organization model in contemporary emerging economies and have lately attracted much attention in academic circles and business presses, their counterparts in developed economies have not been systematically examined. This book aims to fill this gap in the literature and is the first scholarly attempt to explore the evolutional paths and contemporary roles of business groups in developed economies from an internationally comparative perspective. In doing so, it argues that business groups actually rose to function as a critical factor of industrial dynamics in the context of the Second Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century. They have adapted their characteristic roles and transformed to fit to the changing market and institutional settings. As they flexibly co-evolve with the environment, the volume shows that business groups can remain as a viable organization model in the world's most advanced economies today.Publication Metadata only Business, ethics and institutions the evolution of Turkish capitalism in a comparative perspective(Routledge, 2020) Jones, Geoffrey; N/A; Çolpan, Aslı M.; Other; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Business, ethics and institutions the evolution of Turkish capitalism in global perspectives foreword(Routledge, 2020) Jones, Geoffrey; N/A; Çolpan, Aslı M.; Other; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Can advertising enhance consumers' desirable covid-19 health behavioral intentions? the role of brand-pandemic fit(Wiley, 2022) Newmeyer, Casey E.; Schmidt-Devlin, Ellen; Department of Business Administration; N/A; Tunalı, Ayşegül Özsomer; Güzel, Zeynep Müge; Faculty Member; PhD Student; Department of Business Administration; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Business; 108158; N/AThis article explores the fit between the advertised brand and the pandemic as a potential influence on consumers' intentions to engage in socially responsible health behaviors (social distancing, mask wearing, and getting tested when exposed). In an advanced and emerging market setting we find that advertisements for brands that are perceived as high on brand-pandemic fit enhance consumers' socially desirable COVID-19 health behavioral intentions and changes in brand credibility is the mechanism that drives such intentions. Fit is especially beneficial on the intentions of consumers whose health beliefs reflect only low to moderate concern about COVID-19. Consumers with low or moderate (vs. high) COVID-19 health beliefs exhibit an increased susceptibility to the fit-desirable health behavioral intentions relationship. The results are also corroborated in an emerging market context. Together, the results establish links between brand-pandemic fit of advertisements, brand credibility, health beliefs, and consumers' intentions to engage in socially desirable health behaviors. The results suggest that advertising can play a role in encouraging desirable health behaviors and can promote consumer welfare via ads of high fit products and services that provide benefits during the pandemic in both advanced and emerging markets.