1 (1), 2016
From Editor
Welcome to Journal of Management and Organization Studies (JMOS).
We have stepped into the life of publishing as a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original theoretical and empirical research papers, which contributes to understanding different managerial aspects of private and public organizations. The scope of the journal covers theoretical and empirical papers, case studies, and book reviews in relation to various fields of management and organization including but not limited to organization theory, strategic management, organizational behavior, international management, entrepreneurship, business history, and human resources management. JMOS aims to develop the interaction and knowledge-sharing among the management and organization community in an interdisciplinary perspective.
Why was needed JMOS? Though academic studies in the developing countries including Turkey starts to constitute a considerable accumulation, the platforms on which such accumulation is reflected do not appear to be satisfactory enough in quantity and quality. It is evident that there is a clear need particularly for a platform on which the studies that prioritize quality by being concerned about original contribution to the existing literature are brought together. Via JMOS, we have aimed to take a step to meet this need.
The journal is a platform for researchers from all around the world to publish their work in both English and Turkish. All studies dealing with management and organization topics and themes in their national and regional contexts from different perspectives, particularly those focusing on the Turkish context take place under the scope of JMOS. JMOS, as a powerful and assertive journal, has set out to keep a significant position for the development of academic knowledge in the field of management and organization not only in Turkey but also across the world.
In this first issue of JMOS, we are welcoming you with three nice papers. The study by Şükrü Özen and Deniz Öztürk deals with the institutional logics, which is recently one of the most studied topics in the field of institutional theory. The study, which examines facilitation of institutional logics in the context of Turkey through the universities, is a nice example for how context can be incorporated into analysis. Özge Demiral, on the other hand, studying the data from 28 countries, examines to what extent entrepreneurship, which is one of the important topics of strategic management field, is affected by various competitive environmental factors. The most important finding of the study is to find out that unique competitive conditions of each country require different entrepreneurship approaches. The last article of our first issue shares the findings of a quite comprehensive review on the Turkish management literature. In this study, Serkan Dirlik, classifies the studies examining the Turkish management literature by a comprehensive content analysis and provides valuable suggestions for the further literature reviews that can be done in the future.
JMOS, as a journal welcoming all studies with different research approaches and methodologies, can be considered as an initiative to provide the development of young academicians as well as to publish articles that are followed and read in curiosity and interest. We hope you could be a part of this initiative in the future issues.
We wish that, JMOS, as a journal that will be published twice a year in the months of April and October, fulfills the need felt in the field by continuing its existence through your collaboration and support.
Huseyin Leblebici
Editor
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
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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
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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
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