Organizational Management and Leadership

A new empirical model for the production function of the hospital incorporating two types of information systems (IS) is developed. One type of IS is representative of information technology (IT) used in primary, clinical, value-chain activities, and the other is representative of the IT used in support (administrativ…

• ASUNUR CEZAR

Purpose The field of strategic management mainly concerns with the achievement and sustainability of competitive advantage since the sustainability of strategic competitive advantage is more challenging. The concept of innovation can also be regarded as a to respond continuously changing environmental conditions and t…

• TAYFUN YILDIZ
• ZAFER AYKANAT

Notwithstanding the alleged risks of outsourcing design work, leading manufacturers in the Japanese automotive industry collaborate closely with their key suppliers. Despite widespread recognition of the effectiveness of these close‐knit supplier networks, however, little research exists on the factors that affect the…

• SYEDA NAZLI WASTİ PAMUKSUZ

   Hedging is an important metadiscourse device that should be used for various motives particularly in academic writing because it acts as a face-saving strategy and represents the certainty of the scientists’ knowledge on the study field, but nevertheless it is not an obvious consideration for many non-native w…

Language of publication: en

SUMMARY This paper is chiefly concerned with the causes and technological effects of ‘short‐term pressures’ on and in large firms in British manufacturing. ‘Short‐term pressures’ (STP) are defined as factors acting upon (or within) an organization which tend to cause decision‐makers (explicitly or implicitly): (a) to…

• ŞEFİK İSTEMİHAN DEMİRAĞ

This paper investigates the determinants of quality of decision implementation. By drawing on a sample of 116 firms located in Turkey, the authors test whether the features of important team processes (i.e. trust and participation), of the organisation (i.e. past performance) and of implementation (i.e. its speed and…

• MUSTAFA ÇOLAK

Business organizations operate in an uncertain environment that is constantly changing.With this rapid change, companies have certain business risks, such as needing more opportunities and making the right decisions.This risk factor can cause companies to downsize or become unable to operate.On the other hand, uncerta…

• ZAFER ÇAKMAK

In this paper, a dynamic model-based management consultancy project carried out for a major insurance company in Turkey is presented. The objective of the project was to address certain strategic managerial problems of the company by using systemic dynamic simulation. The main strategic problem of concern was that the…

In this paper we present two algorithms for a machine allocation problem occurring in manufacturing systems. For the two algorithms presented we prove worst-case performance ratios of 2 and 3/2, respectively. The machine allocation problem we consider is a general convex resource allocation problem, which makes the al…

• JOHANNES BARTHOLOMEUS GERARDUS FRENK

The case study method has been widely used as a research strategy in the management field. The issues of comparability and of generalizability when using this method, however, continue to raise profound challenges for researchers. Boolean- and fuzzy-logic-based methods offer a valuable basis for a contribution in this…

SUMMARY The study reported in this paper examined the impact of environmental change on the background characteristics of top management teams. The banking sector in Turkey provided the setting for the study. Starting with a package of economic policy decisions put into effect in January 1980, the banking sector exper…

• BEHLÜL ÜSDİKEN