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5th International Conference on Leadership, Technology, Innovation and Business Management (ICLTIBM) -- DEC 10-12, 2015 -- Istanbul, TURKEY, WOS: 000385793000042, In a developing and globalizing world, there is a fierce competition between the supply chains of the companies. The supply chain of a product involves activities from manufacturing raw materials to a final product which is eventually delivered to end user. The Supply-Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) provides a standard description of supply chain processes, performance metrics, best practice and enabling technologies. The basic structure of the reference model inspects the five supply-chain processes: Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, and Return. The purpose of this study is to develop and show application of the SCOR model for the companies. In this study, articles on SCOR model are evaluated. Observations and recommendations are shared according to the research gaps in the literature. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd., Yildiz Tech Univ, Gebze Tech Univ, Istanbul Tech Univ

Today entrepreneurship is accepted as the critical component of sustainable economic growth and employment creation. Entrepreneurship is not a simple plan-and-do act, and is a behavior that is resulted from the attitude that reflects an individual's motivation and capacity to identify an opportunity and to pursue it in order to produce new value or economic success. However the previous and determinant element towards performing entrepreneurial behavior is entrepreneurial intentions. Therefore, understanding the level of entrepreneurial intentions provides insights to policy makers and researchers for forecasting future entrepreneurship activities and the entrepreneurial potentials that can be utilized for achieving economic objectives. In other words, entrepreneurial intent that is defined as the intention of an individual to start their own business is the primary predictor of future entrepreneurs. In theoretical background, personal history, social context, attitudes toward entrepreneurship, planned behavior and personality traits are pointed out as factors that have impact on the propensity to engage in entrepreneurship, and these factors are categorized as internal (personality) and external (contextual or environment). For Turkey, some previous research focused on the entrepreneurial intentions of students. However, there is still room for research on the impacts of personality, university environment/education on entrepreneurial intent. Also the differences between the entrepreneurial intentions of students from different disciplines were rarely explored. In this context, study aims to define the level of entrepreneurial intentions as well as the impact of discipline (engineering vs. management) and gender in business administration and management engineering departments in two major public universities in Turkey. By this aim, we conducted a survey among total 446 students from these universities in the first and final term (1st and 4th grades). Survey Questionnaires are designed in the light of the theoretical background and Theory of Planned Behavior is revisited. Findings reveal that the entrepreneurial intentions of students are considerable for most of the constructs, while the educational programme, university and gender cause significant differences in the intent. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Being a leader is critical and difficult to sustain in today's highly competitive business world. In present study, a leader company in white goods sector is examined to explore its core cultural competency. The critical characteristic of the company is found as its being a learning organization. Various cultural manifestations of the company are analyzed according to Senge's five disciplines. Exploratory case study technique is used in order to understand a complex phenomenon of being a learning organization.

4th International Conference on Leadership, Technology, Innovation and Business Management (ICLTIBM) -- NOV 19-21, 2014 -- Istanbul, TURKEY, WOS: 000380550300048, Regulatory obstacles have led international airlines to make extensive cooperation in the provision of service. The global airline alliances that link U.S. airlines to members in other states is the most visible form of cooperation. Moreover, when the alliance members obtain antitrust immunity, they can determine fares for interline trips that were not possible under traditional pricing arrangements. This research attempts to explain the effect of BA, AA and IB joint venture on transatlantic competition. Paired samples t-test results indicate that there is no significant difference in AA's economy airfare after the introduction of joint venture. Similarly, there is no significant difference in AA's business airfare. As for BA, the picture is vice versa in terms of economy airfare. There is a significant difference in BA's economy airfare. On the other hand, there is no significant difference in BA's business airfare., Gebze Inst Technol, Kocaeli, Yildiz Techn Univ, Istanbul, Internat Strategic Management Managers Assoc Turkey

This study is conducted on 220 employees involved in ERP implementation project in a multinational consumer goods company to investigate the CSFs and their effect on ERP implementation success from users’ point of view. Findings indicate there are differences in which CSFs are perceived important and actually have effect on ERP implementation success. Interestingly, none of the ERP adopting organization environment CSFs had influence on project success. Nevertheless, ‘careful selection of ERP software’, ‘software analysis, testing and troubleshooting’, and ‘vendor support’ explain ERP project outcomes.

8th International Strategic Management Conference --JUN 21-23, 2012 -- Barcelona, SPAIN, WOS: 000312875900084, Barriers to entry have been subject to so many studies examining competition conditions and markets in industrial and micro economics literature. Markets with no entry barriers realize better performance and in these markets long run equilibrium actualized when average total costs equal to price. Generally firms can set up higher prices than their average total costs when entry is not free. Therefore incumbent firms prefer to set up entry barriers and avoid competition. However in two-sided markets new entrants can provide benefits to incumbent firms. So, in these conditions incumbent firms chose to reduce or eliminate barriers to entry. We examined this type of markets and their effects to market equilibrium and incumbent firms., Beykent Univ Istanbul, Gebze Inst Technol, Emerald Publishing Grp, Elsevier Ltd Publishing Grp

Mobbing is one of the obstacles of collaborative and effective organization that challenges motivation and peace in work place. Perceptions of employees on mobbing have critical effects on employee motivation, hence on job stress and job performance that directly affect productivity and organizational effectiveness. On the other hand, analyzing socio-demographic factors and identifying the group based differences in mobbing perceptions of employees is important for identifying the high risk groups. Differences enable policy makers to better design preventive actions in accordance with particular characteristics and needs of these groups. In this context, the purpose of this study is to explore the perceived mobbing level and impact of demographic factors and type of jobs on employees' perceptions of mobbing by using the findings of a case study in a logistics company in Turkey. For this purpose, from the theoretical background, we used a questionnaire that included basic factors that determine level of mobbing in a work place. Responses to survey were analyzed for finding out the significance of differences in terms of the demographics of participants. Therefore, understanding the impact of demographic factors and type of job on mobbing perceptions can enable human resources managers to develop relevant, specific policies that consider the characteristics of employees and jobs. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the 8th International Strategic Management Conference

Today, universities play a fundamental role in establishing and developing an entrepreneurship-oriented economy as they represent the main source of new knowledge. Roles of universities in economic growth have evolved in time and grew beyond their traditional teaching and research tasks. Universities are anymore expected to introduce solutions to social and industrial needs by exploiting the knowledge that is created by research. Universities even strategically aim to create wealth by investing in business, by building linkages, partnerships with technological enterprises or by creating new firms through academic entrepreneurship. Evolution of roles of universities in economic growth received close attention of scholars and found place in multiple disciplines like business management and economics literature and research for decades in developed countries. However there is still a significant need for research about the entrepreneurial intentions, activities and contributions of universities to economic growth in developing countries. Findings of this sort of studies can be very helpful to policy makers of these countries in academy, industry and government for utilizing entrepreneurship for economic growth, employment and increasing welfare of their people. In this context, study aims to determine the entrepreneurial intentions of public universities in Turkey by exploring their strategic postures, cultural and organizational units that supplement and support entrepreneurial activities and collaborations. Major characteristics of universities that determine their entrepreneurial intentions are derived from theoretical background. By conducting a qualitative content analysis, these characteristics are searched through Web sites of public universities in Turkey in academic year of 2011-2012. Findings regarding entrepreneurial intentions of universities that are reflected in their strategies, culture, institutional infrastructure, collaborations/partnerships can provide evidence about not only current but also potential entrepreneurial behaviors of public universities in Turkey. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the 8th International Strategic Management Conference

8th International Strategic Management Conference -- JUN 21-23, 2012 -- Barcelona, SPAIN, WOS: 000312875900069, The study presents a brief literature on diversity management, affirmative action, and equal employment opportunity concepts perspectives, and explores how diversity management takes place in the hotel industry via websites of the biggest hotel groups in Turkey. Recent strategic human resources strategies have reoriented from addressing the average employee stereotype to the employee with diversified skills, backgrounds, cultural competencies and the effects of globalization identities, organization are confronted with the challenge of recognizing and managing diversity. In the study, diversity related human resource management statements and diversity management statements within the given literature are taken into account and interpreted. Data suggests that regarding preceding studies, the biggest hotels groups in Turkey generally do not communicate with the internal and external shareholders about diversity-related issues. Out of 15 entities, only one organization with domestic-based capital has mentioned statements and all the foreign capital organizations have in their websites, but not in Turkish., Beykent Univ Istanbul, Gebze Inst Technol, Emerald Publishing Grp, Elsevier Ltd Publishing Grp

The achievement of strategic competitive advantage largely depends on employee behavior and employee behavior then, is influenced by the strength of the organizational identification. Thus, organizational identification has been subject to so many studies in literature. Besides, corporate reputation is discussed as another outstanding factor. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the perceived corporate reputation of organization and organizational identification, and how ethical climate underlines such a possible effect on this relation. The survey of this study is conducted on 228 employees of a leading multinational insurance company in Turkey. The obtained data from the questionnaires are analyzed through the SPSS statistical packaged software. Analyses results showed that corporate reputation has significant positive effects on organizational identification and this relation is moderated by two different types of ethical climate. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the 8th International Strategic Management Conference.

Building and maintaining brand loyalty are one of the central themes of research for marketers for a very long time. Marketers have utilized various means to maintain the brand loyalty of their customers. One of the recent means is the social media marketing. The aim of this study is to identify the effect of social media marketing on brand loyalty of the consumers, given that the concept is receiving increasing attention from marketing academia and practitioners. The scope of the study consists of customers who follow at least one brand on the social media in Turkey and the data were collected through the administration of a structured questionnaire with a sample of 338 people and tested via stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results of the study showed that brand loyalty of the customers is positively affected when the brand (1) offers advantageous campaigns, (2) offers relevant content, (3) offers popular contents, (4) appears on various platforms and offers applications on social media; were used by using SPSS 17.0 version. Customers prefer to share music, technological-related, and funny contents on social media platforms. Based on our results, this study can be considered as a pioneer in this new area of marketing, and propose several tactics for the practitioners.

Open innovation intermediaries are increasingly growing and changing the technology market profoundly. Especially in last 10 years, intermediaries have rapidly emerged in technology markets. Companies utilize intermediaries to search and solve innovation problems. The extant literature has very limited studies on intermediaries despite their crucial roles in the technology market. The objective of this study to explore the open innovation intermediary market and how intermediaries differ in their strategies despite they are being in the same industry; the particular emphasis is given on the best practices, effectiveness, characteristics, challenges, and market implications, etc. Five prominent intermediary case companies are considered in the study. Intermediary market for innovation is mostly prevailing in a few advanced countries even though various technologies are distributed globally. There are no well-established theories and models how to organize the intermediary market in practice. Consequently, intermediary market demands further studies to build theories and models. This study is an effort towards building theories and models for intermediary market.

8th International Strategic Management Conference -- JUN 21-23, 2012 -- -- Barcelona, SPAIN, WOS: 000312875900145, In today's market economies, economic and social benefits of the competition are evaluated from various aspects. It is seen that these evaluations have gained importance in terms of consumer-orientation, innovativeness, equality in income distribution, efficient use of resources. It provides significant advantages to evaluate the studies conducted in the domestic markets by the foreign firms. When particularly the figures of the world trade volume are analyzed, the importance of the subject becomes clearer. The competitive practices engaged in by the foreign firms with the firms in the domestic markets and other foreign firms have increasingly become an important field of information. Moreover, substantial investments made in the domestic markets by the foreign capital movements have also led to the multilateral positive effects. Analysis of the attitudes toward the foreign firms is also another important part of the subject as well as the positive evaluations. This study aims to analyze the relations between the values of the young consumers and their attitudes toward foreign firms. University students were included in the scope as young consumers. The survey method was used so as to collect data. The survey performs measurement in two aspects as consumer values and consumer attitudes toward foreign firms. SPSS 15.0 and Lisrel 8.7 programs were used for data analysis. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the 8th International Strategic Management Conference, Beykent Univ Istanbul, Gebze Inst Technol, Emerald Publishing Grp, Elsevier Ltd Publishing Grp

This study makes a contribution to the literature by applying the Markov-Switching Bayesian VAR models for the first time to investigate the nonlinear linkage between gold prices and stock market index. Analyses have been done in the period from 1986:04 to 2013:11. The Bayesian approach to econometrics provides a general method for combining modeller's beliefs with the evidence contained in the data. In contrast to the classical approach to estimate a set of parameters, Bayesian statistic presupposes a set of prior probabilities about the underlying parameters to be estimated. We use gold prices (USD/oz.) and S&P 500 Stock Price Index as an endogenous, the crude oil prices (Brent-$/barrel) as an exogenous variable in the analysis. We investigate the number of regime by LR test and The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm and Sims & Zha (1998) prior distribution are employed to estimate the models.

The relationship between leader and followers plays a vital role, particularly in educational institutions where a keen understanding of human character and high level of social interaction ought to be facilitated. For this reason, in stark contrast to contemporary leaders who see people only as units of production or expendable resources in a profit and loss statement, servant leadership focuses on meeting the needs of followers, making them reach their maximum potential and so perform optimally in order to achieveorganizational goals and objectives. This study examines the effects of servant leadership behaviors of private college principals on teachers’ organizational citizenship behavior and job performance. Using 300 respondents from the private education institutes in Turkey, servant leadership behavior is examined for its indirect effects on organizational citizenship behavior and job performance by its impact on organizational justice. Organizational justice acts as a mediator between the variables in question. All the resultsare in support of the studied mediation effects. Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.

Various researches have involved with the leadership and its effects within the organizations in global literature. A number of theoretical models also deal with the leadership style, and the job satisfaction that focus on the several dimensions on employees’ perceptions in an organization. Our study focuses on the notion that leadership styles and the communication competency of bank managers are the basic elements that affect the employees’ job satisfaction in Turkish banks. The survey of this study is conducted on deposit banks in Turkey. The obtained data from the questionnaires are investigated through the SPSS statistical packaged software. Empirical findings reveal that interactive leadership style and communication competency have a stronger relationship with job satisfaction. However, transformational and individual oriented leadership don’t have any clear influence on bank employees’ job satisfaction.

Not-for-profit community services have an age-old history of social justice values based service provision. It has been the reason why people choose to work with these organizations. It is the reason donors give. However, in the current neoliberal economic climate in western democracies the emphasis on competition, contracts and compliance has significantly changed the operational context. Defining an economic approach to service delivery is as important as the services delivered. Transparency in that approach particularly in relation to the values of the organization is essential in order to keep faith with workers donors and stakeholders. This study explored the views of 22 leaders of not-for-profit community service organizations particularly in relation to organizational values and economic approaches and challenges. The in-depth interviews are analyzed through the lens of value pluralism. Originally a political philosophy, it recognises that completely different values can operate in the same domain yet be of equal merit and importance. Typically, the different values coexist harmoniously, however in difficult decisions they can be mutually exclusive resulting in irresolvable conflict. The analysis identified that the organizations were operating from a plural values base that included both the espoused social justice values and unespoused, unacknowledged economic values often disguised as imperatives. They were, in effect, the silent partner, highly influential but not clearly identifiable. The implications of this are explored from a strategic management perspective.

8th International Strategic Management Conference -- JUN 21-23, 2012 -- -- Barcelona, SPAIN, WOS: 000312875900104, In recent years the optimism which paid importance by the firms has been most examined. It is a simple definition of optimism is a generalized expectancy for positive future outcomes that seems to have adaptive and beneficial effects. This study aims to describe the level of optimism of academicians who have been working at Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Dumlupmar University. The study also analyzes the differences in optimism level according to demographic factors. Descriptive research model has been used in the study. Firstly, sample characteristics and optimism level of participants were exposed and T-test was used to analyze mean differences according to demographic factors for testing hypotheses of study. According to results, it can be stated that optimism level of academicians is high degree. The results of the study were coherent with the literature., Beykent Univ Istanbul, Gebze Inst Technol, Emerald Publishing Grp, Elsevier Ltd Publishing Grp

The aim of this study is to measure the effect of locus of control (LOC) orientation on perceived individual innovativeness in Turkey. A second aim is to try to find the possible role of gender in this relation. In order to test the propositions, a field survey using questionnaires was conducted in a sample of 314 undergraduate students enrolled at Marmara University, Turkey. Results indicated that there was a significant negative relationship between external locus of control and level of perceived individual innovativeness. A significant difference between female and male students on the relation between individually perceived LOC orientation and innovativeness was also found.

This study aimed to examine the influence of leader-member exchange (LMX) from the perspectives of subordinates on innovative work behavior (IWB) and to test the role of perceived trust in leader as a moderator variable. A structured research survey was performed and data were collected from a sample of 327 non-supervisory employees that represented corporations and medium size companies from different sectors operated in Turkey. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to examine the construction of the questionnaire and the relationship among LMX, IWB and trust in leader were tested applying the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) technique. The analysis indicated that LMX quality had positive influence on trust in leader, but the influence of LMX was not significant on employees’ IWB. Contrary to what was hypothesized, LMX did not influence IWB. Moreover, the results revealed that trust in leader had positive influence on IWB and significantly moderated the relationship between perceived LMX quality and IWB of employees. Key implications of the research findings both for theory and for practice were discussed, potential limitations were identified, and suggestions for future research were specified.

3rd International Conference on Leadership, Technology and Innovation Management -- NOV 14-16, 2013 -- Istanbul, TURKEY, WOS: 000380553600018, Sustainability is getting more important in the developing air transportation industry. As airports are the most significant elements of the air transportation industry the indicators for the sustainability of airport management should be stressed for the awareness of the airport sustainability among the whole actors. This study has been undertaken to provide a comparison of the world's best 10 airports, based from the results gathered annually by passenger surveys that has been done by an aviation passenger research firm named Skytrax and also The Airports Council Internationals (ACI) benchmarking programme named Airport Service Quality (AQS), sustainability performance and the differences along the sustainability indicators according to sustainability reports which have been developed through the GRI guidelines.

8th International Strategic Management Conference --JUN 21-23, 2012 -- Barcelona, SPAIN, WOS: 000312875900101, In this study entrepreneurship intentions of pupils, who are registered in different programmes of Vocational High School, have been measured. Related literature about the entrepreneurship reviewed and questions of the survey are based on self efficacy concept. Our aim is to interpret the future opinions of pupils about entrenepreneurship through self-efficacy. Entrepreneurship lectures have been taught in nature of entrepreneuership and small business management both Faculties and Vocational High Schools in Turkey. The study is applied on the pupils of Business Management, Computer Programming, Cookingand Convenience Food, State and State Management, Hair Care and Beauty programme. We studied the entrepreneurship intentions through programme and pupil profiles. This intentions were benchmarked with theoric hypotheses and some of attractive results were reached., Beykent Univ Istanbul, Gebze Inst Technol, Emerald Publishing Grp, Elsevier Ltd Publishing Grp

8th International Strategic Management Conference -- JUN 21-23, 2012 -- Barcelona, SPAIN, WOS: 000312875900156, Nowadays, fluctuations of costs and costumer demands make it harder for firms to respond the market conditions effectively and cause customer and profit loss. In modern supply chain process, products must be delivered to customers in the shortest possible delivery time and this delivery time must be procured with a minimum number of stocks. Distribution for small amounts of products in a wide variety must be more frequently and more rapidly. This time constraint has a direct impact on the distribution and warehousing management. Although the importance of warehouses is emphasized in the literature, determining the size of warehouses is not mentioned enough. In this context, determining the size for a new flow type warehouse and a new u-type warehouse has been tried in this paper. A warehouse design which minimizing the total picker distance has been studied analytically with taking the number of doors into account. As a result of the calculations, different interior layouts have been proposed for the flow type warehouses and u-type warehouses. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the 8th International Strategic Management Conference, Beykent Univ Istanbul, Gebze Inst Technol, Emerald Publishing Grp, Elsevier Ltd Publishing Grp

This study investigates the relationships between family-business related characteristics, strategic planning and corporate entrepreneurship in family firms. The effects of four characteristics (willingness to change, generational involvement, perceived technological opportunities, competitive aggressiveness) one of which (competitive aggressiveness) that has not been considered before is examined. Findings suggest that all the factors, except for generational involvement have a positive effect on corporate entrepreneurship. Willingness to change is found to have the most important effect on corporate entrepreneurship. Also strategic planning found to have a positive effect on corporate entrepreneurship. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the 8th International Strategic Management Conference