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Bringing the Empire Back In: The Gradual Discovery of the Ottoman Empire in Turkish Foreign Policy
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)
This article traces the emergence of references to the Ottoman Empire in the discourse and practice of Turkish foreign policy since the late 1940s. It argues that present-day emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and its legacy ...
Determinants of Saving-Borrowing Decisions and Financial Inclusion in a High Middle Income Country: The Turkish Case
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016)
We use a representative survey of the Turkish household sector and investigate factors impinging on saving-borrowing behavior. We run four probit regressions to elucidate (i) the saving decision (ii) asset choice or portfolio ...
Internal Customer Satisfaction Improvement with QFD Technique
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to employ quality function deployment (QFD) method for translating internal customer needs and expectations into appropriate service specifications to perform existing process assessments ...
When Does (Mis)Fit in Customer Orientation Matter for Frontline Employees' Job Satisfaction and Performance?
(Amer Marketing Assoc, 2016)
The role of coworkers' customer orientation (CO) in influencing an employee's CO has received sparse attention in the literature. This research serves two purposes. First the study draws on person-group fit theory to develop ...
Effects of Precursor Parameters on the Optical and Electrical Properties of AZO Nano-Composite Films
(Elsevier GMBH Urban & Fischer Verlag, 2016)
Al doped ZnO (AZO) nano-composite films were synthesized on glass substrates with the sol gel spin coating method at the room temperature. The activation energy of AZO nano-composite films was calculated to be 49 kj/mol ...
Fuzzy ANP-Based PROMETHEE II Approach for Evaluation of Machine Tool Alternatives
(IOS Press, 2016)
Machine tool selection process has been a critical issue for companies for years since improper selection of a machine tool might cause many problems affecting negatively the productivity precision flexibility and company's ...
Beyond a Paycheck: The Influence of Workforce Participation on Women's Cancer Screening in Turkey
(Springer/Plenum Publishers, 2016)
The present study investigates the influence of workforce participation on women's cancer screening behaviors in Turkey. In cultures with predominantly Muslim populations like Turkey emphasis is typically placed on a woman's ...
Behavioral Biases Of Finance Professionals: Turkish Evidence
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2016)
This study extends the existing literature on the determinants of behavioral biases of Turkish finance sector professionals. It examines the impact of various personal and objective attributes of finance sector professionals ...
A Pseudo-Pareto Distribution and Concomitants of Its Order Statistics
(Springer, 2016)
Pareto distributions are very flexible probability models with various forms and kinds. In this paper a new bivariate Pseudo-Pareto distribution and its properties are presented and discussed. Main variables order statistics ...
Re-Considering The Linkage Between The Antecedents and Consequences of Happiness
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2016)
A growing number of studies examine the antecedents of happiness but only a handful of them appear to undertake an analysis of its consequences. Employing a unique cross-sectional data set of 413 adults we examine the ...