ERP and four dimensions of absorptive capacity: lessons from a developing country

Enterprise resource planning systems can grant crucial strategic, operational and information-based benefits to adopting firms when implemented successfully. However, a failed implementation can often result in financial losses rather than profits. Until now, the research on the failures and successes were focused on implementations in large manufacturing and service organizations firms located in western countries, particularly in USA. Nevertheless, IT has gained intense diffusion to developing countries through declining hardware costs and increasing benefits that merits attention as much as developed countries. The aim of this study is to examine the implications of knowledge transfer in a developing country, Turkey, as a paradigm in the knowledge society with a focus on the implementation activities that foster successful installations. We suggest that absorptive capacity is an important characteristic of a firm that explains the success level of such a knowledge transfer.Publicad

Gender as Symbolic Capital and Violence: The Case of Corporate Elites in Turkey

Based on a Bourdieusian approach, drawing on qualitative analyses of 63 life interviews, our study demonstrates that gender is performed as both symbolic capital and violence by corporate elites within the dominant ideologies of patriarchy and family in Turkey. Our analysis reveals that, in the male-dominated context of Turkey, female elites appear to favour male alliances as a tactical move in order to acquire and maintain status in their organizations, whereas male elites appear to remain blind to the privileges and constraints of their own gendered experience of symbolic capital and violence. Our study also illustrates that gender order is still preserved, despite beliefs to the contrary that equality in education, skills, experience and job performance may liberate women and men from gender-based outcomes at work.GSU Research Fun

Uniformity and diversity in Turkish business groups: effects of scale and time of founding

This study aims to extend recent theoretical and empirical work that has began to question the strong homogeneity argument in much of the macro-institutional literature on nationally dominant forms of organizing. More specifically, the paper develops the proposition that intra-national. variety is likely to be greater in business strategies and structures than in governance patterns. Drawing upon macro-institutionalist and contingency theories, testable hypotheses are derived from this proposition that postulate relationships between size and time of founding and organizational dimensions of strategy, administrative structure, and forms of governance. These hypotheses are then tested on a sample of business groups that have historically been the dominant form of large business organization in Turkey. Findings did show, as expected, that governance structures remained insensitive to size and time of founding effects. Variety associated with size was apparent in the case of central administrative structures, although features associated with vertical control remained invariant. Hypotheses concerning diversification and internationalization strategies received only partial, and in the latter case, rather weak support. The findings are indicative, however, of divergence resulting from differences in size and institutional conditions of founding

Devlet ve Vakıf Üniversitelerinde Örgütsel Adalet Algısının Lider-Üye Etkileşimi Üzerindeki Etkisi

This study investigates the impact of organizational justice on the quality of leader–member exchange relationships in the Turkish higher education context. Public and foundation universities are compared, as extant literature reveals significant differences between them. The study employs a sequential mixed-method design. Surveys from 182 academicians from faculties of economics and administrative sciences in Istanbul are collected through key contact persons or via e-mails. Surveys are complemented by 17 face-to-face semi-structured interviews, most of which were conducted at the interviewees’ universities. Findings point to a strong impact of informational justice that is modestly complemented by procedural justice on the quality of the leader–member relationship in public universities. In foundation universities, however, procedural, informational and interpersonal justice dimensions influence the quality of the leader–member relationship in a balanced manner. The study also has implications for university administrators.Bu çalışma, örgütsel adalet algısının, lider-üye etkileşim ilişkisi üzerindeki etkisini Türkiye’deki yükseköğretim ortamında incelemektedir. Mevcut yazının aralarında pek çok farklılıklara işaret ettiği devlet ve vakıf üniversiteleri karşılaştırılmaktadır. Çalışmada ardışık karma yöntem araştırma tasarımı kullanılmıştır. İstanbul’daki üniversitelerin İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakülteleri’nde çalışmakta olan 182 akademisyenden, o fakültelerde çalışmakta olan bir öğretim elemanı aracılığıyla veya elektronik posta yoluyla anket toplanmıştır. Nicel veriler, yüz yüze yapılan 17 mülakattan elde edilen nitel veri ile güçlendirilmiştir. Görüşmelerin büyük çoğunluğu mülakat yapılan kişinin çalıştığı üniversitede gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bulgular devlet üniversitelerinde, lider-üye etkileşim ilişkisi üzerinde bilgisel adaletin güçlü ve işlemsel adaletin nispeten daha zayıf etkisi olduğunu göstermektedir. Vakıf üniversitelerinde ise işlemsel, bilgisel ve kişilerarası adalet lider-üye etkileşim ilişkisi üzerinde benzer ölçülerde etki göstermektedirler. Çalışmanın sonuçlarının, üniversite yöneticilerine katkı yapabileceği düşünülmektedir