1 (1), 2016
YOAD / JMOS
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Hüseyin Leblebici
From the Editor
Şükrü Özen & Deniz Öztürk
Institutional Logics and Political Networks: A Theoretical Framework for Academic Staffing in Newly-Founded Management Departments in TurkeyThis article develops a conceptual framework for explaining how individual embeddedness
in multiple institutional logics at the field level and in political networks
at the societal level influence managerial decisions within organizations.
By considering the institutional and political environments surrounding management
departments in newly founded universities in Turkey, we propose that the
degrees of individual decision-maker’s embeddedness in alternative institutional
logics (single vs multiple) and in different political networks (closed vs open) influence
their decisions on hiring new academicians. We consider that organizational
actors’ instantiations of logics together with political networks delineate
their identities. Accordingly, decision-makers embedded in a single logic and/or
a closed network will tend to hire academicians similar to themselves whereas
those embedded in multiple logics and/or an open network will be more likely to
hire academicians different from themselves. We also elaborate our conceptual
framework by considering the influences of logic-related networks, decoupling in academic staffing, geographic locations and ownership of universities. By doing
so, we first contribute to a better explanation of institutional and political diversities
in academic cadres in management departments in new Turkish universities.
Second, we expand micro-level view of institutional logics by integrating societal
level political networks into the analysis.
Keywords: Institutional logics, institutional complexity, political networks, embeddedness, hiring decisions, management higher education, Turkey
DOI : 10.15659/yoad.1.1.001 [PDF]
Özge Demiral
Does Competitive Business Environment Affect Entrepreneurial Activities? A Multi-Country Longitudinal Data AnalysisStarting from a worldwide consensus about the importance of entrepreneurship
to create an inclusive business life and new job opportunities, studies have immensely
attempted to clarify the environmental factors affecting entrepreneurial
activities. On the other hand, policymakers have been enforcing policies to foster
business competitiveness through institutional quality, advanced infrastructure,
macroeconomic stability, better health and education systems, good governance,
etc. at national level. Empirical studies in the related literature seem to
have restricted to the determinants of either competitiveness or entrepreneurship
separately, ignoring the interactions and synergies between them. Moreover,
the evidence from a limited number of studies underlines the ambiguous
relationship and addresses to the necessity of the consideration of industrial
structures in countries while examining the nexus.
Based on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s Adult Population Survey and the
World Economic Forum’s Executive Opinion Survey pools over the period of 2006-
2014, this empirical paper purposes to identify the relationships between competitiveness
indicators and early-stage entrepreneurial activities using a longitudinal
dataset of 28 countries that we also distinguish between innovation-driven
and efficiency-driven economies. Findings from fixed-effect linear regression analysis reveal that competitiveness
does not necessarily encourage the entrepreneurial activities in all countries
and development stages of countries matter for their entrepreneurship-oriented
business environments. Furthermore, the qualities of infrastructure and
institutions have negative impacts in innovation-driven and efficiency-driven
countries, respectively. Overall results indicate that entrepreneurial activities, in
general, have country-specific and multidimensional characteristics and motivations.
Therefore, countries, regardless in which development levels they are,
need integrated policies harmonizing competitiveness and entrepreneurship
priorities.
Keywords: Business environment, competitiveness, Porter’s diamond model, entrepreneurial activities, environmental conditions
DOI : 10.15659/yoad.1.1.002 [PDF]
Serkan Dirlik
To Look or to See: The Course of Studies Analyzing the Turkish Management LiteratureThe aim of this study is to provide an overview of 56 studies review Turkish management
literature with regard to various purposes. By this study, a new classification for such literature is proposed and the contribution of these studies to our
knowledge about Turkish management literature is highlighted. Findings of the
study show that studies analyzing the Turkish literature can be categorized into
two main groups according to extent of their contributions. The first group studies
are studies that take stock of literature by looking at their certain features and
do not provide deeper insights. The second type studies are studies that evaluate
literature as a part of some theoretical problems or explain their findings from the
lenses of different theories. Several avenues for improving research on Turkish
management literature are also suggested and a research agenda for the future
research is offered.
Keywords: Turkish management literature, literature reviews, management knowledge
DOI : 10.15659/yoad.1.1.003 [PDF]