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The Covid-19 pandemic, which started in Wuhan, China in 2019, become a global health crisis by spreading to many countries in a short time. Considering the effects of the pandemic on international trade, many countries have taken measures of customs transactions, and these measures caused global changes in the supply chain flow in trade. The supply chain disruptions that led by trade-related pandemic measurements has caused to decrease in economic growth, the slowdown in trade, and weakening of financial markets. Turkey was among the countries that took customs measurements. In this study, it is aimed to understand how Turkey's export performance is affected by the trade-related pandemic measures. In this context, it was examined whether Turkey's exports were affected during the strict implementation of pandemic measures at customs. Afterwards, it was evaluated whether a "new normal" has emerged in exports after the pandemic measures taken at customs decreased with the normalization throughout the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to examine the general purpose of the third party logistic (3PL) and fourth party logistic (4PL) firms and to examine the 3695 studies published in the Web of Science database between 2001 and 2018 in terms of bibliometry. The focus of this study is to examine the scientific outcomes of the third party logistic (3PL) and fourth party logistic (4PL) firms and to demonstrate the course of research and practices with a qualitative analysis. The data were selected by searching on 10 in Web of Science Core Collection database and social network analysis was applied to these data. The aim of this study is to analyze the scientific data visually. According to the results of the analysis; there has been a significant increase in the number of citations after 2008. The most cited journal is the International Journal of Production Economics and business economy has the most number of publications. According to the analysis of cooperated institutions, the first four institutes are in China and one institute is in USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Natural and human-caused disasters in the world cause damage to many regions, cause great damage causing loss of life and property. It is possible to reduce the damage caused by these disasters by managing the pre-disaster and post-disaster processes well. Therefore, interest in disaster and humanitarian logistics has increased particularly in recent years. The aim of this study is to examine 854 articles obtained from Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus database conducted in the field of disaster and humanitarian logistics between 2004 and 2019 using bibliometric analysis method and determine which years the studies were intense and reveal the general profiles of leading countries, institutions, journals and authors in this field. Data of the study were collected in May 2019. With this study it has been determined which years the studies on disaster and humanitarian relief logistics, a field of more interest in recent years, were intense, and the general profiles of leading countries, institutions, journals and authors in this field were revealed. The data obtained from the analyses are explained by the support of tables and figures. According to the results of the analyses, it is observed that there is more interest in disaster logistics especially after 2015, and the journal which studies most refer to is the European Journal of Operational Research. It is also concluded that the most active department in this field is the business department, the country with the highest number of publications and citation is the USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Changes in the dynamics of world trade, changes in production technologies and consumption habits, and the widespread use of sustainability ideas and practices have increased the level of awareness of the society in terms of recycling of products and disposing of them without harming the environment. This increased level of interest from communities, international organizations and NGOs has also given greater importance to Reverse Logistics views and practices, known as product recovery in Logistics Management, reproduction and recall for product disposal or repair. The focus of this study is to examine the scientific outcomes of reverse logistics in the last decade and to demonstrate the course of research and practices with a qualitative analysis. For this purpose, reverse logistics, reproduction, re-use, recovery, recycling, destruction, reverse flow, refurbish concepts were used to scan in the Web of Science database and a total of 701 publications were reached. Both bibliometric analysis and content analysis methods were used in the study. In the study, firstly bibliometric analysis and then content analysis were performed. Since the bibliometric analysis method provides general information about the publications examined, content analysis method was also used to examine the literature in detail. As a result, it was found that most publications were made in 2015, publications in the type of research articles were in the majority and most publications were made by Auburn University in the USA. In addition, it was determined that the most mentioned concept is the supply chain in the abstracts, the most studied subject is closed loop supply chain management and the most used method is analytic hierarchy process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Producing good quality service has been come obligation more than necessity for educational organizations in the world which in globalization process more and more. In this process Transformational structure of leadership in organizations that aimed quality, has been changed towards transformational concept. This study was realized in National Education Ministry/ Research and Development Department (Ankara) and Eskişehir şehit Ali Gaffar Okkan Primary School which awarded with National Quality Prizes. It was dialed with to measure transformational and transactional leadership levels of educational managers according to their own perception and their followers in publish organizations that they awarded. Additionally It has been interested in managerial figures that designate organizational success in respect of not only mangers but also subordinates. Findings indicate that provinces educational organizations? leadership levels higher than central organization transformational leadership behaviors in Ministry of National Education. Managers that on duty in central organizations posses transactional leadership behaviors more than provinces organizations? educational managers. Findings also put forward that consciousness levels of provinces organization managers about total quality management higher than main organization managers. Furthermore public educational managers behaviors effected by general and structural problems of public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between smartphone use, interpersonal interaction, and friendship satisfaction (FS) remains underexplored in literature. The present study addressed this gap by examining how smartphone-related behaviours, such as phubbing and smartphone addiction (SPA), are associated with fear of missing out (FoMO), being phubbed (BP) and FS. The study surveyed 811 university students and explored the aforementioned relationships and the dual roles of SPA as a mediator and BP as a moderator. The findings showed that FoMO positively correlated with phubbing, with SPA as a partial mediator, suggesting that reducing SPA could mitigate phubbing. Results also showed that BP moderated the relationship between these variables, influencing the effects of phubbing on FS. Notably, the findings also showed that while phubbing typically harms FS, BP can transform this negative impact into a positive one when friends share this behaviour. These findings contribute to the theoretical understanding of digital behaviours’ effects on social interactions and offer practical implications. Interventions such as digital detox programmes, mindfulness training, and social skills workshops are recommended to promote healthier digital habits and improve social relationships. The need for tailored support for at-risk students and policy development that foster digital well-being in educational settings is emphasised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]