Investigation on the Relationship Between Business Performance and Business Satisfaction: Company Example

This research is designed to examine the relationship between job performance, job satisfaction and intent to leave work. The research consists of a research department in order to be able to reveal the relation between conceptual sections and concepts formed as a result of the examination and evaluation of the domestic and foreign sources in the literature. In the conceptual section of the study has been completed by exploring the concepts of work performance, job satisfaction and intention to leave the work in the literature, published articles, books and magazines. The concepts such as the collection of methods and data used, sample size of the universe were included in the study. A descriptive and relational screening model was chosen to test whether the performance of the staff, the job satisfaction, and the intention to leave the work as a model of the study. In the study, the results of the questionnaire method were analyzed and the findings were presented in order to express the effects of job performance, job satisfaction and job separation intention. As a result of the research findings obtained, evaluations were made and various proposals were made and the study was concluded.   &nbsp

Information Aggregation Under Strategic Delay

In this paper, we show that consumers delay their buying to learn the unknown quality of a product. Agents receive imperfect but informative signals about the unknown quality. Then, each one simultaneously decides whether or not to buy the product in one of the two periods. Consumers with moderate tastes will strategically delay their buying to the second period even though they receive a good signal. They deduce the true quality by observing the mass of first period buyers. We avoid equilibrium non-existence problem by using agents with different private values.Intertemporal price discrimination

Predatory Bidding in Sequential Auctions

The Turkish government wanted to sell two GSM (cell-phone) licenses in 2000 with sequential auctions. The winning bid in the first auction would be the reserve price for the second auction. This auction design gives incentives to ``predatory bidding." We show how a strategic firm will bid too high in the first auction hence, no other firms can pay the reserve price in the second auction. The winning firm will make up for the high-bid in terms of more profit due to less competition in the market. We show that the government could have sold the two licenses and raised more revenue in a correctly designed sequential auction.

Bank Managers Perception of Ethical and Legal Conduct in Emerging Markets During the Post-Crises Period: Evidence From Turkish Banking Sector

The objective of the study was to identify the main ethical dilemmas facing the banking managers; to assess the ethicality of some banking practices as perceived by top managers; to determine the effects of the demographic and institutional dimensions on bank managers’ ethical judgments; to check the overlap and divergence of the authentic norms and banking or criminal law and State Security Court pleas. The findings refute the idea that the banking community has authentic norms or a free space for intentions and interpretations conflicting with the law and indicate that the Turkish bank managers are on the higher end of the ethics scale.Business Ethics, Banking Sector, Turkey

Cosine Similarity Measure According to a Convex Cost Function

In this paper, we describe a new vector similarity measure associated with a convex cost function. Given two vectors, we determine the surface normals of the convex function at the vectors. The angle between the two surface normals is the similarity measure. Convex cost function can be the negative entropy function, total variation (TV) function and filtered variation function. The convex cost function need not be differentiable everywhere. In general, we need to compute the gradient of the cost function to compute the surface normals. If the gradient does not exist at a given vector, it is possible to use the subgradients and the normal producing the smallest angle between the two vectors is used to compute the similarity measure