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Today, there is a paradigm shift from traditional competitiveness to green competitiveness. This change forces organizations to change their strategies. Organizations that leave the traditional understanding start to develop green strategies. Businesses that establish environmental strategies which their competitors are unable to replicate can gain a sustainable competitive advantage and ultimately profit in the long term. Thus, organizations gain competitive advantage through green intellectual capital. The main purpose of this study is to conduct a content analysis of the green intellectual capital elements of the enterprises in the BIST Sustainability 25 Index. The companies included in this index are those with high overall sustainability scores and transparently disclose information on their social, environmental and managerial performance to the public. Another objective of the study is to create a conceptual framework for the concept of green intellectual capital and to systematically analyze the studies on the concept in the literature. According to the results of the study, it is concluded that the enterprises in the index disclose their activities related to green structural capital and green relational capital, which are green intellectual capital dimensions, more than green human capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Local governments are the points where citizens first come into contact with the state. For this reason, municipal governments that win local governments and display a successful administration can increase the public's belief in them so that the political parties can in turn be successful in the country's administration. One of the most important resources for local governments to be successful and provide better service to the public is their human capital. Better and more accurate management of human resources depends on the mayor authorized by the people and elected for 5 years, as well as the mayor's and the administration office's correct and proper decisions. In the present study, the reasons for the short tenure of the managers appointed in a metropolitan municipality between 2019 and 2022 were investigated and 12 attributes were determined as a result of extensive literature research. With the multiple attribute decision-making approach named DEMATEL, the influences between these 12 attributes were revealed and the significance of each attribute was calculated. According to the findings, several strategic leadership decision suggestions are made on the appointment of managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growth theories preceding the endogenous growth theories assume that firms do not have the resources to devote to technology development because of full competitive conditions. While there is a consensus in the these theorems that technological development is the engine of growth; Lucas (1988)'s "Endogenous Growth Model Based on Human Capital", explains technological progress and economic growth with human capital. In a significant part of the empirical studies, it has been concluded that the effect of human capital on economic growth is positive. However, there are results that the increase in human capital has no effect on economic growth. Economic growth instability, which began after the "2008 global crisis", still continue. Based on this situation, it has become very important to determine the long-term impact of human capital on economic growth in Fragile Five countries. In this study, the effect of human capital on economic growth between 1987-2019 in terms of Fragile Five economies was estimated using the panel data method. The findings obtained reveal that human capital plays an important role in order for these countries to increase their economic growth. In this context, human capital has an important role in raising the economic growth of these countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The human resource management practices compose the relationships between the employees, who are the most important, and nearly non-substitute resources of businesses, and the employers. Human resource management (HRM) is both a field of practice and a field of academic study. The HRM practices of the manufacturing SMEs is examined in this study on the Eskişehir sample. The aim of the study is exposing the HRM practices of the manufacturing SMEs in Eskişehir. For achieving our purpose, we have conducted a multiple-case study on 19 companies which had been chosen through maximum variation sampling. The structured and semi-structured questions are used during the interviews with the HRM managers/specialists and the top managers of the SMEs. According to results, the size and age of the company, the power of customers, and the sectoral regulations can be related on adopting the HRM practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In literature, the "quality" of FDI rather than its "quantity" was started to be focused on in order to be beneficial for economic development. One of the indicators of FDI's "quality" is accepted as its "mode of entry", greenfield or brownfield investments. The paper argues that greenfield investment is more useful for development in order to have its direct positive impact through investment. The paper empirically investigates this by a cross-section data analysis. The main findings support this argument. Findings also back the argument that brownfield can be beneficial for development in the long-run in relation with human capital development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this study is to determine the reasons of why the single and married women living in Turkey, in urban and rural areas do participate the labour force through the 2002-2008 period. In other words, this study aims to search the reasons affecting the women's decision of working. To this end, the study is conducted via a pooled data set merged by putting together the data gathered from Household Budget Surveys of the years 2002-2008. Logit model analysis is conducted for application. The results of the analysis illustrated that, education level, household income, dependency ratio, ownership of the property and women's age are the most important factors as to the women's decision of participating to labour force regarding the married and single women. Furthermore, the number of children reduces the labour force participation in urban areas while increases in rural areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article inquires as to whether Turkey can be among the ten largest economies of the world in 2023. According to the theory of growth, saving and investment, human capital, research and development efforts and the resulting technological development are the factors that cause economies to grow. The saving and investment ratios of Turkey have been declining since 1988. The average level of education of the labor force and the quality of education are both improving, but according to the predictions in this article, in 2023, the education level of the labor force will continue to be below most of Turkey's rivals. Research and development efforts are also improving, but considering the other negative developments, it is concluded that the progress in research and development will be insufficient to take Turkey into the group of top ten countries in 2023. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]