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Today, it has been argued that it is not adequate to address the organizational power from the perspective of culture management and resistance to it from the perspective of cynicism. Now the power that depends on ensuring employees’ commitment to organizations is weakening, and neoliberal governmental power, which makes employees compete against each other, blurs the distinction between “work” and “non-work” domains, and is based on the “precarity” of all life, comes to the forefront. Until now, the neoliberal governmentality has not been adequately and comprehensively examined in organization studies within the framework of daily/embedded interactions. This study intends to provide an insight into the manifestation of neoliberal governmentality in daily interactions in the workplace. In this regard, the main research question is as follows: “How does neoliberal governmentality manifest itself in daily interactions within today’s working life?”. Novels provide in-depth information in addressing daily interactions. Using a Turkish novel (Ofistekiler: Bir Plaza Romanı [People in the Office: A Novel of Plaza]) about the current working life as the main data source, the article presents a white-collar woman employee cannot market herself in an environment of neoliberal governmentality and keeps silent about non-genuine working practices. It shows how neoliberal governmental power reveals itself in both daily interactions and employees’ competitions with one another.

Keywords: Neoliberal governmentality, Foucault, power, workplace, cynicism, being genuine, precarization

DOI : 10.15659/yoad.3.1.001 [PDF]

This study aims to analyze the strategic perspective of long-lived Turkish businesses, based on Whittington’s (2001) classification of strategic management schools. In the scope of the research, nine long-lived Turkish businesses were examined, foundations of which varied from 1807 to 1893. As a result of the analysis, it is observed that the strategy perspectives of the long-lived businesses are positioned closer to the Processual Approach. Out of the eight dimensions of the strategy perspectives, firms only diverge along the leadership dimension, whereas they cluster on similar positions for the remaining seven dimensions. The results from the empirical analysis lay the foundations of further research, which may question whether firms operating in the Turkish context have their own strategy perspective or not.

Keywords: Strategy perspectives, long-lived businesses, Turkey

DOI : 10.15659/yoad.3.1.002 [PDF]

The aim of this study is to examine both the technology spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) and the indirect effects of FDI intensity containing technology spillovers on the internalization of local firms from the point of view of Mathew’s LLL Model and Dunning’s Eclectic paradigm. Moreover, it examines the moderator effects of the ownership structure of FDI and technology gap on the technology spillovers. The observation unit of this study is 95 FDI in Turkish Manufacturing Industry. The findings show that technology spillover has a partially positive effect on patent intensity while it has a negative effect on the local labour productivity. There is an important moderating effect of technology gap on technology spillovers form FDIs. On the other hand, there is a limited indirect effect of patent intensity on the relationship between the FDI intensity of industry and the internalization local firms.

Keywords: Technology spillover, foreign direct investment, export performance

DOI : 10.15659/yoad.3.1.003 [PDF]