JMOS

We are very pleased to welcome you again with the second issue of Journal of Management and Organization Studies (JMOS).

One of the most important objectives of our journal is to develop a scholarly community by publishing papers that contribute to our understanding of private and public organizations. In terms of its scope, JMOS 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.

An equally important objective for our journal is to publish critical research papers that would advance the development of academic knowledge in the field of management and organization not only in Turkey but also across the world.  With this aim in mind, in this second issue of our 1^st year, JMOS publishes three important works that contribute to macro institutional theory, critical studies, and business history. In the first paper, Onur Dirlik explains the structural characteristics of the Turkish business system based on the national business systems approach in a macro-institutional theory perspective. In this study, Dirlik reveals that Turkey, which has been known to have a state-dependent business system in the literature, displays more variation across different historical periods that cannot be explained with a single model. In the second paper, Sibel Doğanay examines the call centers from a critical studies perspective, which has been applied relatively less compared to the other studies in organization theory in Turkey. Stating that call centers are recently an increasingly growing organizational form in Turkey, Doğanay investigates the control types in these organizations by analyzing in-depth interview data she collected from the employees of call centers in İstanbul. In the last study of this issue, Ahmet Sait Özkul presents a transcription that can be considered as a significant contribution with respect to the literature on Turkish business history. In this study, Özkul provides the translations of two documents studying Taylorism in the Ottoman Turkish, dated 1913 and 1924, and evaluates them by relating with three newspaper reports in French dated 1913, which constituted source for these two documents. 

With this issue, JMOS celebrates the completion of its 1st year. I sincerely thank all of our colleagues who have submitted their manuscripts. I also would like to take this opportunity to individually thank Ahmet Murat Fiş, Anıl Divarcı-Çakmaklı, Arzu Kalemci, Arzu Wasti, Birgül Arslan, Çağrı Bulut, Deniz Tunçalp, Engin Bağış Öztürk, Eyüp Aygün Tayşir, Gökhan Karagonlar, Hüsniye Gülsev Koç, Janset Özen-Aytemur, Özge Can, Selin Erdil, Şule Aydın-Turan, Şükrü Özen, and Umut Koç, who have provided their valuable time to act as reviewers and helped to improve the quality of the published papers.       

Thanks again for your support for JMOS’s inaugural year. We are looking forward to receiving your scholarly manuscripts and to working together to enhance the quality of our journal.

Huseyin Leblebici

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