Mobbing in academy: Have mobbing really happened to assistants?

Taşseven, Özlem (Dogus Author)In today’s dynamic and complex environment it is hard to compete and become a successful organization. Employees are the main sources of competitive advantage. To be competitively successful today’s organizations must eliminate all work-related negative factors. Mobbing is one of the significant work-related factors. Mobbing can be considered as the most problematic factor that should be prevented. It is an extreme form of social stress factor at work place. The basic characteristic of social stress factors is that they are related to the social relations of employees within the organization

Competitive advantages and clustering of SMEs: An analysis of clustering effect on competition in small-scale enterprises in Istanbul

Taşseven, Özlem (Dogus Author)According to Michael Porter’s Diamond Model, a business cluster is defined as geographic concentration of inter-connected companies and institutions working in a common industry. In addition, clusters encompass an array of collaborating and competing services and providers that create a specialized infrastructure, which supports the cluster’s industry. The economic cluster model, represents a synergy, a dynamic relationship and a network between not only the companies that comprise a cluster but also the successful partnering of the stakeholders. Today in all over the world, successful clusters have established a greater competitive advantage and wealth creation for their regions when compared to companies not in a cluster. Given this success more policy makers and regions are considering fostering cluster development as building blocks of regional economies. Research is planned and performed for understanding the clustering in SMEs (small and medium enterprises) industrial estate in Istanbul if it gives a competitive advantage to the cluster members or not. It is performed to determine and satisfy the lack of knowledge about the small and medium enterprises’ issues, technologic systems, production quality standards, capacity usage ratios, interactions with other firms, habits of following the technologic improvements and clustering effects on the members

Business cycle modelling - The case of mergers and acquisitions

Taşseven, Özlem (Dogus Author)Business cycle models involve exploiting movements of the economy to gain competitive advantage over rivals. Business cycles are applicable to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) which occur in waves. Econometricians have attempted to model these waves. The paper demonstrates that, with respect to each of several major stylized facts about business cycles, the seasonal cycle displays the same characteristics as the business cycle. Therefore the patterns in merger and acquisitions measured as merger waves could be investigated using seasonality models. Using a modified seasonal unit root procedure we model the cyclical behaviour in the quarterly M&A data from 2000 to 2010 for Turkey. Our analysis is based on the methodology developed by Hylleberg, Engle, Granger and Yoo (HEGY procedure). Based upon an empirical analysis of the merger and acquisition variables, our results indicate that seasonal unit roots appear to deal value, number of deals with known value variables when possible structural changes in one or more seasons during the 2001 and 2008 crisis years have been taken into account

Internal control over financial reporting and the cloud

Taşseven, Özlem (Dogus Author) -- Conference full title: FSI – Global Business Research Symposium – Cracow/Katowice, Poland – May 28-30, 2014.By 2020, 40 percent of digital information is expected to be created in the Cloud, delivered to the Cloud, or stored and manipulated in the Cloud1. It is clear that the Cloud is here to stay. As a large scale version of outsourcing Cloud Computing will create new challenges and complications for management and auditors. After the replacement of SAS 70 with SSAE 16, (similar to the ISAE 3402), most Cloud Service Providers will provide assurances to the Cloud Service Users within the framework of attestation standards instead of auditing standards. Outsourcing presents some challenges in itself and cloud computing further complicates those challenges. The new framework allows three different deployment models in the form of SOC1, SOC2 and SOC3. It is crucial that cloud service providers and cloud service users and their auditors should carefully consider alternative Service Organization Controls (SOC) deployment models. Unfortunately, many cloud providers are opting out for SOC 12 leaving little room for the development of SOC 2 reports. The right SOC deployment model for the Cloud is SOC 2 or SOC 3

The determinants of merger and acquisitions in Turkey

Taşseven, Özlem (Dogus Author) -- Conference full title: Proceedings of Peer-Reviewed Symposium 2010, Annual Symposium fo the Financial Services Institute, September 9-11, 2010, St John's University, New York, USA.This is a comparative study of the 14 Istanbul Stock Exchange registered mergers and acquisitions (M&As) that took place between 2000 and 2007. In our analysis, we have compared 30 different financial ratios to identify the impact of the M&As before and after the acquisition. Employing the factor analysis methodology, we grouped those financial ratios into four distinct groups. These groups were identified as liquidity, profitability, operational and financial ratios. During the second phase of our analysis, by looking at those factors before and after an M&A transaction, we tried to identify whether there were any significant changes in the financial structures after an M&A. The Wilcoxon tests indicated that there were no significant changes in the financial structure before and after an M&A for the firms in hand. During the next phase of our analysis, we tried to identify the firms that are significantly different from the industry average. In other words, in which aspects the firms that were the subject of an M&A differed from the rest of the industry. We found out some 9 firms differed with respect to profitability, six firms differed with respect to liquidity, six firms differed with respect to financial, and 7 firms differed with respect to operational aspects

Clustering effect on competetive advantage in SMEs: Does it really give an advantage?

Taşseven, Özlem (Dogus Author) -- Confeence full title: Sixth International Conference on Business, Management and Economics 07-09 October 2010, Çeşme, İzmir, Turkey.According to Michael Porıer's Diamond Mode, a business cluster is defined as geographic concentratian of inter-connected companies and institutions working in a common industry. In addition. clusters encompass an array of collaborating and competing services and providers that create a specialized infrastructure. which supports the cluster's industry. The economic cluster model. represents a synergy, a dynamic relationship and a network between not only the companies that comprise a cluster but also the successful partnering of the stakeholders. Today in all over the World. successful clusters have established a greater competitive advantage and wealth creation for their regions when compared to companies not in a duster. Given this success more policy makers and regions are considering fostering cluster development as building blocks of regional economies. Research is planned and performed for understanding the clustering in SMEs Industrial Estate in Istanbul if it gives a competitive advantage to the Cluster members or not. lt is performed to determine and satisfy the lack of knowledge about the smail and medium enterprises' issues, technologic systems. production quality standards. capacity usage ratios, interactions with other firms, habits of following the technologic improvements and clustering effects on the members

CFSs in turkish construction projects

Taşseven, Özlem (Dogus Author) -- Conference full title: Sixth International Conference on Business, Management and Economics, 07-09 October 2010, Çeşme, İzmir, TurkeyIn this study, we have investigated the Critical Success Factors (CFSs) of the Turkish construction sector. The Turkish construction sector is one of the fastest growing sectors of the Turkish economy and it deserves a special attention to understand what determines success in this area. CFSs are few key factors that ensure the success in an organization. To determine these factors we have inverviewed 102 executives in the Turkish construction sector. The results are anlayzed with the help of statistical tools, such as Chi_Square tests. The analysis of the data indicates that demographic variables associated with a project leader (such as age, and the years of education and the degree in engineering) are some of the important factors in this area