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This paper aims to present a content analysis of Business field studies for International Journal of Management Economics and Business that started its life in Bülent Ecevit University in 2005. Therefore, articles beginning from the first volume coded by their year, author sum/title, publication language, department, research method and authors' universities, then a frequency and categorical analysis were carried out. Be found out that the 233 articles of the total 433 were published in Business field and more than half them were in Management and Organization department. Almost all of the studies were published in Turkish and it is seen that two thirds of them were prepared by more than one author. As for the research method, it's found out that seventyfive percent of the articles used quantitative methods for evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Information economy" which is called as New economy, Digital economy or Knowledge based economy has expanded worldwide effectually. Information technolgy revolution has arranged the very foundations of the old industrial and occupational structure, redefined the rules of entrepreneurship and competition, and created a increasingly global marketplace for a myriad of new goods and services. However, the economics researchs haven't enough to understand the effects of the dynamism in this field, yet. This paper aims that to discuss the competitive market structure and the social utility at the information economy. Using method is the analyses of the microeconomic market equilibrium in the paper. And also, the characteristics of the information economy and its affects on economy were examined generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Ottoman period there was established an organization named :hisbe' or 'ihtisah', the office of superintendent of markets. It dated back to the early years of Islam, in order to regulate social and economic behaviour throughout bazaars and marketplaces and to maintain them in accordance with social norms. This organization had some powers and responsibilities of today's ministries of finance, trade, economy, industry, justice and of the organization of religious affairs as well as those of municipalities. The officials named 'muhtesib' of this organization checked goods and services exchanged in the market and whether they met the standards in price and quality that were fixed by the government and applied some corrabarative rules for that. In this study, after giving brief information about this organization and the duties of its officials, the 20th section which deals with 'ihtisab' of the Ottoman Code of Laws for Suleiman the Magnificent has been briefly analysed. The study has pointed out that Ottomans attached much importance to social order, economic stability, business and trade ethics, quality of goods and services, conditions of health, cleanliness of environment, animal rights as well as those of slaves, workers and tenants. All goods and services produced and exchanged at that time, standards and selling prices of them, even standards, measures and qualities of inputs used in the production of these goods and services were listed one by one and in detail in those regulations. The paper presents a historical record of these regulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]