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In today's changing conditions, supply chain provides firms with advantages in many aspects such as cost, speed and quality. In this respect, the investigation of the factors that increase supply chain performance presents important findings to both the literature and practitioners. The aim of this study is to examine the relationships between information sharing, absorptive capacity, supply chain innovativeness, and supply chain performance. For this purpose, data were collected from 194 middle and senior managers in firms in Kocaeli through questionnaires. As a result of the analyzes carried out with the AMOS program, it has been determined that information sharing is positively associated with absorptive capacity, but not with supply chain innovativeness. It is also concluded that absorptive capacity is positively related to supply chain innovativeness and supply chain innovativeness is positively related to supply chain performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research aims to test the effect of organizational mushroom management style and organizational gossip on knowledge sharing. Survey method, one of the quantitative analysis methods used in the research. The research was conducted with MBA graduate students at a foundation university in Istanbul, working in different sectors. Within the scope of the research model, analysis of the interaction between mushroom management style, knowledge sharing, and organizational gossip has been made. As a result of the research, a positive (,232; ,239) relationship was found between the mushroom management style and organizational gossip, and a negative (-, 238) relationship between the mushroom management style and knowledge sharing. At the same time, it was found that mushroom management affected the knowledge sharing in the negative (-, 160) direction and the organizational gossip in the positive direction (, 101). Also, it was found that mushroom management affected the organizational gossip in the positive (,217) direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to ensure the continuity of its activities and to store knowledge to transfer from past to future, organizations need organizational emotional memory. Organizational emotional memory enables the protection of common knowledge, the remembering when needed, accessing and sharing. Thus, in this study, our goal is to investigate the relationship between knowledge sharing, service development, service performances and organizational emotional memory in local governments. Questionnaire is applied to managers working at 39 county municipalities of Istanbul and data is collected from 361 persons. Structural equation modelling is used to test research hypotheses. The results showed that there is positive relationship between the level of emotional experience and and knowledge sharing, diffusion of experience and knowledge sharing, and also knowledge sharing and service development at organizations. At the same time, service development also affetcs service performance positively. Finally, the service development of organizations posititively affetcs their service performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]